Our African Safari has given so many beautiful memories! Especially the animals we experienced. I have captured many of them in this video.
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Victoria Falls, Day 2
April 7, 2025
The morning begins with our tour of Victoria Falls. It is an amazing, breathtaking site.
We visited an elephant rescue site to get an up close visit with the elephants. There were nine elephants being cared for. They had been rescued from drought conditions or from culling herds in some game reserves.
In the evening we had a farewell dinner and a sunset cruise on the Zambezi River.
A perfect ending for our trip!
Thank you to Abby and Overseas Adventure Travel for a fantastic experience!
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
April 6, 2025
We leave Botswana by plane and bus and cross the border into Zimbabwe and the city of Victoria Falls. Abby, our tour leader, shows us around his city. We made a quick stop at his wife’s cosmetic shop.
We proceeded to the Shearwater Hotel for lunch and free time to walk around. We walked to the historic Victoria Falls Hotel to see their amazing view!
Home Hosted Dinner
Six of us are hosted by Gogo (grandmother) and her daughter and two granddaughters. We are served a meal of beef stew over polenta, pumpkin leaf peanut sauce over rice. Gogo and family were very happy to host us. She and the granddaughters sang a song for us.
Okavango Delta, Botswana. Day 3
April 5,2025
This morning we drive to the water of the delta to have our ride in the traditional boat of the delta called a mokoro. But, on our way we have another afternoon drive amazing sighting of a mother leopard and her two cubs.
On our way again, we spot a lion and her two cubs.
Now on the way to our mokoros.
We spent the afternoon earnestly searching for a male lion, but we did not find him.
The day ended with a traditional meal and singing and dancing.
Okavango Delta, Botswana
Day 2, April 4, 2025
This is another day of amazing wildlife viewing in the Okavango Delta. Here are photos from both our morning and afternoon drives.
Our guide, Fannah, finds a pride of lions that look full and contented. He observes vultures in the distance and he heads that way to see if we can find their kill and maybe the male lion. We soon find the remains of a baby giraffe.
Then we see a cheetah not too far from the lions. He seems a little nervous and doesn’t like the jackal staring at him. He is afraid the jackal will expose him. He chases after him. So fun to see wildlife in action!
We see a variety of animals everywhere.
We had a huge rainstorm in the afternoon. After the rain, our guides track some African wild dogs. We chase after them in the safari vehicles and find where they had killed an impala. In mass they begin feeding voraciously.
Amazing viewings we had today!
Okavango Delta, Botswana
We leave Chobe National Park by bus traveling to the Kasane Airport for our flight to the Okavango Delta and the Santawani Camp.
We are picked up by our guides in the Safari vehicles and watch for wildlife on our way to the Camp. We have another afternoon drive and sunset later.
When it was dark we were escorted to our tents and could not leave until daylight. We would hear lions and hippos wandering by in the night.
Botswana: Chobe National Park
Day 3, April 2, 2025
Full day game drive!
Late afternoon we had an interesting talk about Botswana’s Shoot to Kill policy with poachers. We also had a visit from a Bushman who showed us how to start a fire with a stick and some grasses.
Botswana: Chobe National Park
Day 1 & 2. March 31-April 1, 2025
After breakfast we fly in the Cessnas back to Livingstone airport. We tour a bit of the city where most of the people live without running water or electricity. We had time to walk around their local market and I bought some fabric from these young men.
We enter Botswana by going across the Zambezi River on the new bridge. We are staying at the Baobab Lodge. Photos from our afternoon game drive.
It’s now morning and we are off to our morning game drive.
On the afternoon drive we found the leopards kill and the leopard hiding and of course more giraffe.
Afternoon activities included a walk to Namibia and the art of basket weaving.
Kafue National Park, Zambia
Day 3, March 30, 2025
We have a morning game drive to see some of the land animals here at Kafue.
In the afternoon one of the women on staff demonstrated the many uses of the chitenge, the colorful cloth that is wrapped around the waist as a skirt. It is also used to carry babies and wrapped around as a head scarf. The girls are given their chitenge when they reach puberty.
She also demonstrated making peanut butter using a large mortar and pestle.
We ended the day with a traditional meal and dancing and singing with the staff.
Kafue National Park, Zambia.
Day 2, March 29, 2025
Our morning began with a cruise on the Lufupa River. We saw many varieties of birds, lots of hippos and crocodiles. it was delightful to be on the river. Here are a few highlights.
We stopped for morning tea on the bank of the river and had the famous rosemary shortbread cookies. As we got back in the boat our guide saw a baby Pied Kingfisher struggling in the water. So a rescue effort by our guide got it out of the water and onto land. We hope it survived.
The photos above were also seen on our afternoon cruise on the Kafue River.
Tim & Kathy Simonsen 