After a great day in Livingstone and Victoria Falls, we had an early 6 am wake up call to head out on Safari in Chobe National Park. With nothing but a backpack we all went on our way to the Zambia-Botswana border. After crossing the border on boat, and getting our passports stamped we met our guides who took us on our way. We started safari on a boat tour and saw many animals like Cape buffalo, elephants, crocodiles, water buck, and birds galore. After 3 hours on the water we took a break for lunch at a nice resort. At our seats for lunch we could watch a baboon shake trees for fruit and warthogs skim the ground. It was a great morning and really got us excited to see more Jesus animals in the wild.
Post lunch we quickly went to our vehicles and proceeded to enter the park in Botswana after going through customs. We had been in the park less than two hours and had already seen a plethora of animals. Hippos, giraffes, elephants, lions, water buffalos, leapords and worthogs were some of the most amazing animal sightings. At one point we had 50 elephants cross in front of our jeep, a leopard in a tree, with a big male lion right at the bottom of the tree after he had stolen the leopards Impala kill. There were so many animals doing so many different things in a short period of time it almost forced you to choose what you wanted to watch! After driving and pausing to stop whenever we saw animals we made it to our camp in the bush around 630. There we ate dinner and talked about our highs and lows from our trip thus far. It was great to look at all that had happend in a few short days. Then we went to bed to the sound of lions and baboons in the distance. We even had a honey badger and baboon scurry between tents in the camp at separate points in the night! What an awesome cap to a great day in Gods creation to be able to spend the night amidst all the sights, smells 🙂 and sounds of the African bush!
From Africa,
Drew and Luke
AROMA Missions: Zambia 