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Hi every one, Sorry this is so late. Since my last post i have spent two wonderful days at home between flights and then flew off to Johannesburg. As a note for future trips 48hrs is not enough time to turn around and try and sort things for another 3month trip!! I spent way too much time sorting things and not enough doing the things i'd missed when i was away, but I suppose it means i'll look forward to them more when i do finally get home for a more than a few days!
After a rather nice flight we arrive in Jo' burg and get a transfer to our hostel that luckily i'd booked way before even Cosat rica!! We get there and go stright to sleep! Then rather worryingly the lovely guy on reception cant find our names on the list for the over land trip, and after an hours frantic searching it becomes clear that greenforce are not a very good company to put it mildly! They "forgot" to pass on olivia's and my payments so Africa travel company had no idea we were coming. Luckily for us the lady in charge of our trip is a star and we get on the bus the following morning after having to borrow a tent from another overland tour.
We had sortof expected the other people to be of a similar age to us but that idea was blown when we realise its more like a family thing and thers several people who could be our grandparents! They are all really nice though and supportive.. Interestingly though, not many brits, mostly australians. The first day we head to Kruger and go on a game drive. its the sam ethe following day and we see, hippos (and a baby) lions, elephants zebras, kudu, impala, and so many other animals but unfortunately no big cats! This is when we are tolf that there's no room for us on the truck after Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe and we go into panic mode. This over shadows the next couple of days and only starts to reside when thankfully my parents take over and it becomes clear that greenforce will pay for our flights to Dar es Salaam in time for the project to start om 5th July. In the following couple of days we go into Botswana and to some amazing sites. Huge baobab trees easily 1000 years old, elephants drinking at night in a water hole right beside our campsite, horses eating waterweed like hungry hippos and a huge bull elephant flashing us a warning flash of his ears.
However Livvie and I arent used to this sort of trip and often comment that we feel like a group of Chinese on a bus, only stopping to take photographs and then get back on obediently to travel more vast distances! We have a few more days in Botswana and then we go to Victoria Falls, on the Zimbabwean side. All of us sigha collective sigh of relief when we hear the elections are off as we would be arriving on election day, but the situation is still foremost in aour minds especially with the sensationalist headlines of some of the papers here and Mugabe's defiant speeches.
Much love to you all as always and i will try and keep you up to date as much as possible
Sarah
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