One problem is does create is wee stops. Its fine for the boys, they just line up facing outwards...

Desert moooney

but for the girls we have to hide round one side of the truck and tell the boys to keep themselves busy.

On Chistmas Eve eve eve we stayed a my favourite bush camp by a country mile- Spitzkoppe. After Miles and Miles of nothing massive rock formations rise out of the desert. We arrived late afternoon which gave us a couple of hours before nightfall to go climbing yey!!!!

Best bush camp ever

Spitzkoppe (our bus is just at the base of that big rock

Spitzkoppe

Sunset at Spitzkoppe

Me

Me and Meg Spitzkoppe

The other fun thing about Etosha is that it has a massive salt pan in the middle of it. This means you can mess around with the perspective on your camera and take pictures such as...

Love hunters cider

Me eating Meg

Tampon boxercize

In the evenings we stayed in a camp in the park. The camp had a flod-lit watering hole next to it so we took down a few ciders, midnight snacks and sleeping bags and sat out under the stars all night watching animals come into feed. At about 3.30 a female white rhino and her baby came in to drink. They stayed with us for a couple of hours. It was awesome to watch them being completely natural. You could see the calf being naughty, getting told off by its mum and then being told to lay down and go to sleeep.

Sunset

3.30am at the watering hole

The thrown- overlooking the Hippos

The Throne

Poop-a-Falls- A toilet with a view and a very long long-drop

Poop a falls

The Holiday Bathroom- come with in built sunglasses

Holiday shower- complete with in-built sunglasses

and my favourite... The bath with the view

Having a bath hippo watching

The view from my bath tub

Happy!

It was a really awesome bush camp in the middle of nowhere. The sunset made the clouds go funny.

Awesome Clouds

In between the hangovers and next visit to Shoestrings Bar we actually managed to do quite a few activities…

Victoria Falls sits on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia. We got to see it from the Zimbabwean side which was incredible. Its so loud and powerful that at certain points you can’t see much for all the spray. We spent the morning taking in the views and posing for an unnecessary amount of photographs.

Near the end of the falls they’d got a bit slack at putting up fencing so you could dangle yourself right over the Zambezi.

The next day Jessica and I came up with the stupid idea of doing a gorge swing. A gorge swing is a bit like a bungy jump but the rope isn’t elasticated and you are attached by the waist rather than the feet. I can’t believe we actually did it, but after the initial jump the feeling was amazing. Just to prove we did it here is a picture of us just as we left the platform.

The internet connection is too slow to upload a video but if you YouTube “gorge swing Victoria Falls” you should get a good idea of how brave we were!

After all that adrenaline we decided to take the pace down a notch or two with afternoon tea on the lawn at the Victoria Falls Hotel. It was by far the best afternoon tea we’ve had so far, made better by the stunning backdrop of the falls.

We also did a little bit of celebrity spotting while in town. We saw Chelsea Davey 3 times. Twice in Shoestrings Bar and once in Chicken Inn (she’s a classy girl).

written by  lizziecarver on December 14, 2010 from Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
from the travel blog: Backpacking... it's not as fun as Insurance
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Botswana is bloody expensive and the most modern place we've been yet. On the upside it has the Okavango Delta which should just be renamed Heaven. Its probably the prettiest place I've ever been.

We just returned from a 2 night Wilderness canoe safari. Our guides took us out in canoes deep into the delta where we bush camped on little islands.

General Schedule for the day in Heaven:

-5am every morning to go bush walking for 4 hours
-11am swam in the delta and practiced our punting skills
-napped in the shade to escape the midday (40 degree sun)
-4pm sunset canoeing
-6pm cooking on the bonfire
-8pm teaching the Okey Cokey to the locals with a G&T
-10pm bedtime istening to hippos and hyenas in the background

SWEEEEEEEEEET

Meg

Catching some rays

Punting in Botswana

Bush Camp

Mobile Bar

Me and Meg in the Canoe

Sunset in the Delta

I love Africa!!!

I'm a massive Gortex wearing safari geek and I love it.