Sunday morning we were out the door for the safari by seven
o’clock. The safari was in Botswana and the border of Zambia and Botswana is a
river. So we all got on a boat and said goodbye to Zambia for the day. Once we
crossed the river we got into four open-air jeeps (typical safari jeeps) and
ate breakfast at the Coffee Buzz. Once we were finished with our breakfast we
got on a boat for our river tour/safari. The boat had two levels, so some of us
were on top and the other half were on the bottom. We rode around the Chobe
River and saw many animals like hippos, water buffalo, crocodiles, elephants
and more. We were able to watch the
elephants swim across the river, which was very entertaining. After we were
finished on the river we ate lunch back at the Coffee Buzz, then loaded the
jeeps again for our land safari.
We were at
Chobe National Park each of the four jeeps went on different trails. For many
of us we drove along the river for majority of the afternoon, so we saw a lot
of the same animals we did on the river safari. The only difference about
seeing the elephants for example was that they were so close we could touch
them. But don’t worry we didn’t. Everyone really was hoping to see a lion or a
leopard, so when one of our tour guides heard there was a leopard spotted
everyone went looking. Our guides did not waste anytime! They flew over to this
open grass field in search of the leopard. Some of the jeeps did some
off-roading to try and find it. Unfortunately no leopards were found. Around
four o’clock three of the jeeps stopped for a stretch break. Our drivers were
eating chips and a monkey that was near by snuck up and stole a chip. After
that Kyele tried to feed another chip to the monkey and it lunged at her. The
tour guides were not happy with her trying to feed the monkey, but we all of
course found it funny. Then when we were driving we were trying to find a lion,
so we stayed more toward the main land. Lions did not come out until it got
colder out, so once the sun started going down we were on lion watch. There
were about four female lions spotted at different times throughout the evening.
Around six o’clock our jeeps headed
toward our campsites for the night. Two jeeps went to one site and two to a
different one. The goal was to have Corie at one site and Coach and Elem at the
other. Unfortunately the guides did not understand that and all three of them
ended up at one site. Don’t worry parents everyone was perfectly safe! We ate dinner once we got there and sat
around the campfire for a couple hours talking. Everyone was a little on edge
because the animals were free to roam through out site whenever. Although we
heard the animals make noises none of us actually saw them. Overall we all had
a great time!
With
Love,
Hoobs and Rae
Wow nice pics and Great Adventure Sounds Fun!
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