Zambia- Safari

Here the best of of Zambia.
We spent 6 days in Zambia and 3 Days in Livingstone where we had amazing time!
Here the pictures, video coming soon! The main highlights were to walk with Lion cubs as part of the Alert project which aims to reintroduce and increase the lion population which has decreased by over 80% in the last 30 years. In is amazing to be so close to such a powerful animal, notice the sticks in our hands, these cubs are being reared to be re-introduced to the wild and are not used to human contact.

The other big highlight was devils pool, a small rock pool in the edge of the Victoria falls as some one held onto our ankles we lean over the falls looking down 300 feet as hundres of liters of water soar past us of the cliff edge, truly a magical experience. We are overwhelmed by the beauty of this place.

Botswana - Safari

Hi ,
So sorry for the delay!!!!

Basically internet anywhere so we gave up and decide to wait to find a place with a good conection for be able to post all the pictures.

We have such a big delay that we will have 10000 pictures to saw you! instead of that we will post a Best of each countries we went so far.

Everything has been good and nice, travelling thought Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi , Tanzania and Kenya.
Lot of fun with our Overland group, we had a costum party theme Bin Bags! lot of funs!!
UNfortunately Sophie has been sick with Mallaria during 10 days, so it has been really ennoying for her to dont enjoy the journey and been really sick for 3 days.
Fortunately after wards she is feeling better and get around the group again!
Here the best pictures for you have a look!
xx

South Africa - SAFARI

Safari here we are!!
We are with a very nice team: 8 peoples
Pamela from Italy
Christian from Germany
Bruna, Andrew, Kristy and Leila from Australia
we are in the big safari truck who is called THE PIG, is it the oldest one from Acacia and it's amazing inside!
we went the 2 first nights in an amazing place where we had a tradi onal dinner and dance from the locals.
We visited Kruger National Park where we saw all the big 5 ( lion, guepard, elephant, rhino,buffalo0 in the first 50 mins ( lot of peoples can not see the 5 in the trip) so we were really lucky!
We spent quite lot of times driving as now we are really closed to Botswana and we crossed all the South Africa.
The team is really nice we have lot of fun.
The camping is nice also , the showers are open , so as we wake up every morning beetwen 4h30 and 5h30 our showers are under the stars!!! really nice!
will try to post as soon as possible, now we are in Livingston and i have 10000 pictures to post so will try the best!
as we are camping we don't have internet at all ( and we are also in the midle of no where!!)


D+S

xx

South Africa - Table Montain

Yesterday we went all the way up to Table Mountain, an iconic part of Cape towns skyline...
There is a cable car to the top but this is fairly pricey at 180 rand per person (£18 each) to put it in perspective we pay 100 rand a day for accomodation and 40 rand each for food per day. Instead we choose to walk/hike up. There are over 300 trails through the Table mountain national park and it is easy to get lost, so we decide to take the easiest and most popular trail Platteklip Kloof route which takes around 2,5 hours to the top.
Its a sunny day and little do we know it is about to turn out to be one of the hottest days of the year in South Africa, we also do not know out route is in full sun light all the way with little shade.
We set of on our 1200meter vertical assent. It takes us just under 3 hours to the top, and we both finish a liter of water each on the way up. We take frequent brakes because: 1 we are less fit than we imagines, 2 its really hot, 3 the higher we got the thinner the air is.
There are allot of other walkers/ hiker who we talk to during our brakes, they are very friendly many offer us bisquets, sweets and water. This is something we have found all over Africa so far is that people are very friendly, talk-ative and helpfull.
Despite it being an effort to get to top it is well worth it the view really is spectacular, and all the sweeter knowing we climbed all the way up ourselves. Its a real sense of achievement as we pause looking out over the city of Cape Town, the bay, Lions Head and Robben Island. We find a map of the area with arrows to all the major coties in the world and realise we are almost 10,000Km from home!

We are lucky we took our own home made sandwiches up the mountain as everything at the cafe at the top is really expensive, but we are out of water. So we fill up from the taps in the toilets but it doesn't take very good and is a bit brown/ yellow colour. Luckily on  the walk down we stop by a small stream/ water fall. The water is running fast and cool so we drink the water, its deliciously cold and fresh with a slight sweet taste. We also take of our shoe's and bate our sore feet in the cool water for a bit before continueing back down. It only takes us just under 2 hours to walk down, we walk for a little while longer until we spot two people about to hop in a cab and suggest sharing it back into the centre of town to save money.
Back in town we realise its Sunday and all the shops are closed, we cant buy food. So we head abck to the hostel and decide to treat ourselves to take away Pizza, its way over our daily budget but we feel we have earned a big meal and spend 100 rand on two Pizza's. Then at 9:30pm we are so tierd we go to bed early.


We are leaving on tuesday for Johannesburg where our Safari is starting, we don't know if we will have some wifi during our safari but we will try to post as much as possible



xxx

D&S