Our journey home included a flight on Airlink back to Johannesburg, then we picked up some luggage that we had left at the JNB airport so that we didn't have to carry it to Zimbabwe. We then had a long layover until we took off on a British Airways flight to London Heathrow. Once there we had a long layover so we booked the Sofitel hotel at the airport so that we could get a shower and a nap before heading on to BWI where we would get a car home. It was a long couple of days,

Today we met Thembie and our driver to go to Victoria falls with a subset of our group. Some of the group had gone to additional game drives in Chobe but we decided to just do the falls and then relax. Mark and Heather, another couple from our group came with us. We drove to the falls and stopped at a market by the falls that was run by a high school classmate of Thembie. The market owner provided us with ponchos to use at the falls. We later found that those ponchos were als

Today we departed our hotel in Johannesburg to the airport for a flight to Zimbabwe., We lost a few people from our group but 8 of us continued on. We took a small local airline easyjet to Zimbabwe but the plane was nice, and we were served a meal and full beverage service for a flight that was just under 90 minutes. In Zimbabwe we got a new CEO (head guide) named Thembie., She was local to the area ov Victoria falls and knew the area and lots of people. We checked into our h

We had one finalmorning game drive this morning before a long drive back to Johannesburg where we will spend the night before a smaller group of us will continue on to Zimbabwe and Victoria Falls. We were lucky enough to find the leopards again and this time see a baby Leopard Leopard Leopard Leopard Baby Leopard Male Nyala Male Nyala Then our jeep had a flat tire, the second one in as many days and we were right beside a group of Zebra and Giraffe so we got some time to just

We had a couple of drives today, a morning and an afternoon one with lunch in the middle back at camp. We got awake up call early in the morning after the guides had walked through camp to make sure that there were no animals among the tents and then we could walk to the main restaurant area for breakfast. Our morning drive was much better than yesterday, and our guide proved to be an incredible tracker, both visually and be listening to calls. Early in the drive several vehi

Today we drove from Kruger to Karongwe to do additional game drives. We checked into our "tents" which were elevated on platforms, and had wooden floors, full bathrooms, a nice porch and a sizeable bedroom. You really couldn't have asked for more. We had our first game drive that first evening which was pretty disappointing and we were concerned that Karongwe was going to be a disappointment but there were much better drives to come there. We drove with a guide and a driver i

I'm combining all of the photos from Kruger into one blog post because they all run together after the fact. Wildebeaast Crocodile Lion Lion Wildebeast Ostrich Ostrich Helmeted Guineafowl Giraffe Impala Impala Giraffe Impala Helmeted Guineafowl Giraffe Giraffe Giraffe Giraffe Hyena Lion Hyena and baby Lion Hyena Lion Lion Waterbuck Waterbuck Giraffe Wild Dogs Impala Giraffe Egyptian goose Wild Dogs Hippo Vultures Baboon Hippo Baboon Cape Starling Baboon Baboon Elephants Eleph