April 22 Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden is the largest of 11 botanical gardens in South Africa. It is situated on the eastern slope of Table Mountain in Cape Town. It is 1300 Acres in size with 88 Acres being planted. It is without a doubt the most beautiful botanical garden that I have ever seen. It…

April 21 Chapman’s Bay near Cape Town, South Africa April 20 Thanks to Glenn for fixing my blog and Email. Our chartered plane flew in to pick us up in Zambia and flew us to Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. We caught a plane to Johannesburg where we caught another plane to Cape Town. We…

April 19 The last 2 days we had in Zambia were filled with activities. We went on 2 game drives and 1 animal walk (subject of the last post). Corrie and Glenn went on a fishing trip on the Zambezi River and I went on a night safari to see how many nocturnal animals we…

April 18 We went on a 2 hour nature walk today along the Zambezi River. There are many dangerous animals there so we brought along a guard to protect us from the elephants, lions and hippos in the area. Our first view of the area after getting off of the boat is of many baboons…

April 17 We had a 5:30 wake-up call, breakfast, bus trip to the Zambian border, immigration stop, boarded a boat to cross the Zambezi River right where they are building a new bridge. It is at this point where 4 countries meet: Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. We get on another bus and head for…

April 16 Today and yesterday we took a 2-3 hr. ride on the Chobe River on a boat that can get close to shore. Here are some photos and videos that show what we saw. Elephants Mom and baby come out of the bush Baths Baby learning how to drink Hippos: Hippos are common in…

April 16 Namibia is a country on the west coast of Africa. When I saw in the itinerary that we were going to walk to a Namibian village I didn’t feel up to walking 1000 miles since Botswana is in south central Africa. But if you look at a map you will see that there…

April 16 Leopards are very elusive animals but our guides have some useful tools they can use. The first one is the radio that allows communication among all the guides. We have about 10 different guides in the park at one time so if one guide spots something he will radio all the others as…

April 15 Chobe National Park is a huge wildlife park of 11,000 sq. km. in Botswana. We saw many elephants in the park. They tend to go down to river in the morning and return to the wooded area later in the day. They mostly eat 2 kinds of trees – the Acacia and the…

April 15 Giraffes are the tallest land animals in the world. They are easy to see; that is why we found quite a few in the park. Giraffes eat foliage up in the tree canopy. They prefer Acacia trees and they occasionally eat bark. They usually eat about 75 pounds of foliage each day. All…