I left you one day into our South Luwanga safari holiday.
The next day started at the same time :$ this time we decided to do a whole day
drive. Hoping to see a few different animals. Both of us found by
the end of it we were pretty tired. Much prefer having the
break/sleep/swim etc in the middle of 8 hours of safari madness.
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| Who will be the next lion victim?? |
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| Recouperating/cleaning after the big feed |
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| Seems like the males from the other pride, joined this one for the feed! |
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| The view where we stopped for lunch |
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| The wilderbeast we spent the day trying to find! |
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| The remains of the buffalo |
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| Mongoose |
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| The view from our varenda |
Since we had such a great time doing the night drive on Sunday, we did
another one on Tuesday. We thought we'd have the day off, but changed our
minds. AND it was totally worthwhile!!
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| I'm falling in love with giraffes, they seem to have soooo many awesome pictures!! Who knew a giraffe would look so funny when it drinks! |
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| Birdie for Malcolm |
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| Another one (or two), one has a fish or something in it's mouth |
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| We sadly didn't have a good front on picture |
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| So that lion pride, totally caught another buffalo, we happened upon it when the buffalo was down, but still breathing, calling for help and kicking on occasions. We were there about 30 mins. It took about 20 mins for them to kill the thing. Hard out! |
Wednesday we had a walking safari to the bush camp which is where we spent
the night. It was pretty cool being out in the wild! I found it
funny being escorted to the toilet by an armed guard!
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| Snake on the window of our hut pre leaving into the wild |
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| Ardvark hole, sadly no ardvark |
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| The braii, which composed the main bit of our 3 course meal. |
Thursday we walked back (so essentially a second walking safari) and since
we were so in love with night drives we did another one!!
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| Sunrise, well just after |
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| The 'resident' hippos near our camp |
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| Buffalo approaching the river |
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| One of the small five maybe a lion ant? |
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| Spot the bird! It was so hard to see. Our scout had mean as eyes to spot it. It took so much direction before we finally saw it! |
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| Porcipine quill |
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| Busy workers carrying all those big leaves/grass to their hole! |
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| Wild snake!! EEeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! |
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| View from the camp site (not the bush camp) |
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| Birdie again - need Malcolm to identify . . . |
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| The pool which was used soooo often. I miss having a pool! |
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| Stupid fisherman. Don't you know there's crocodiles in this river. They eat people. They've eaten 5 this year. |
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| Lots of elephants (for South Luwanaga) |
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| Hyena |
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| Servet maybe? |
South Luwanga safari's for the WIN. We had an awesome time!
Friday we headed home. We left at 4.45am and arrived back in Kabwe
around 8pm. That was a LONG day of travelling.
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| Pictures from the journey home |
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| This has to be the funniest cardboard window I've seen! |
Sandra had wanted
our keys while we were gone so she could use the internet. However she
lost her phone, so we couldn't contact her. She failed to inform us of
that, or the fact that the boys that live in the same compound as us still had
the keys cos she'd been to busy to go and get them :$ Sigh. So we turn up
at the place Sandra is staying. The people who used to live there had
just moved out and some new people just moved in (while we'd been away) They
were so nice, offered us a place to stay, which we gratefully accepted about
9.30pm as Sandra hadn't turned up back at her place by then. Thank goodness for the
kindness of strangers!!! Only in the morning when we woke up and found Sandra
did we find out that our keys were still at our place! Sigh. I assume the
rest of Saturday was pretty chilled out, I can't remember.
Sunday we get up to go to church, and who do we find outside our gate but
one of the Bethesda children Samuel! (Jono had done the supermarket shopping
the previous day, got back to the car and found Samuel sitting inside the car,
he took him home to our place briefly before heading back into town to get something, he
must have remembered the way!). So of course you do what any Christian would do on a sunday morning we took him to church!
Prayer items - see previous post - not a lot has changed in the past few days
