Safari

Safari was great. God created so many unique animals. A special treat this time was to see Cheetahs up close, which was the only important animal the kids didn’t see last time here. Another new experience was a walking safari in and amongst the zebra, wildebeest and impala not to mention Nathan’s favorite, bones and elephant dung.

As expected, the roads getting to safari were a major challenge. The roads degraded from nicely paved to bumpy dirt roads, to rocky, to finally not really any roads at all. With all the rains, vehicles just get from point A to B anyway possible. This is often not on the road itself, but wherever the mud is not. So this adds some thought and sport to driving (which thankfully we were not personally doing). It involves getting out of the vehicle and walking a hundred yards one way or the other to see what the best bet is. Typically, seeing a vehicle buried up to its axles is a good sign not to go that way. We saw several of those, some of whom had spent the night in their vehicles waiting for it to dry up. We were hoping not to be one of those.

We did manage to make it to our safari camp and had a fantastic time eating a picnic lunch under an acacia tree in the middle of the plains. (Our driver having first driven a couple hundred yards in all directions to make sure there were no lions.) But most of the time it was driving around in a Land Rover up to all the typical animals you would expect to see in Africa. The kids loved the whole experience as did the parents.