Daily Archives: November 1, 2006

In South Luangwa National Park we spent five days bushwalking and rarely saw another white soul. What we did see were resident elephant families from year-old infant to pregnant Mom, the local pride of lions and their cubs, a leopard in a treetop making one with the spotty shadows, the usual leering spotted hyenas, wondrous bird life and that magical sun, setting like a peach flambé behind a lacy curtain of acacia trees.

Then again, thank goodness I talked myself out of my usual isolationist stance when it came to Victoria Falls. This is one place one simply must see and, like everyone else, get drenched in the heavy mist rising from the mighty Zambezi as it flows from its wide, island-dotted bed, thundering into a narrow, twisting gorge below.

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