Today was our Safari! Simply put: It was amazing! Describing it in a blog post won’t do it justice, so I will save most of the descriptive details for us to share with our families when we get home. We got hundreds of pictures. We saw multiple types of colorful birds, hippos, zebras, giraffes, water buffalo, alligators, elephants, warthogs, baboons, kudu, impalas, iguanas, sable antelopes, mongoose, and…. Lions!! Lions are the most rare animals to see on their safaris because they tend to stay far away from the paths and sleep during the day. But we had an excellent tour guide! We were sitting in the middle of a group of giraffes when our tour guide noticed the giraffes were looking at something far away in the bushes and started moving in the other direction. He told us they must be looking at “some cats”, so we did a little off-roading through bushes and trees! It was very exciting! After about ten minutes we spotted the two lions lying underneath a tree. We pulled our big jeep right up next to them – we were about 10 yards away! It was the highlight of the day. When we rejoined the other groups in jeeps, the other tour guides did not believe our tour guide that we had found lions until we showed them the pictures. The second best part of the safari was when we got to watch two male elephants spare for about 30 full minutes! We got lots of video of that. That was also a rare occurrence. I will save the rest of the details for us to share in person.
Once again, it is getting late here in Zambia. Tomorrow is Sunday, so I should have time to write a more comprehensive post. I apologize for how brief my last two posts have been. We have been very busy and the Internet has been unreliable. Good night from Zambia!
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