This is the end of the wild part of our trip. From here on it's reintroducing ourselves to civilisation in Livingstone, but first we had an hour to kill before our flight, right on the edge of the South Luangwa National Park. Time for a spontaneous safari!
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| Look at me, I'm invisible! |
EDIT: I just noticed there's a hippo in the river here. Turns out he's better at camouflage than the zebra.
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| A youthful giraffe. These guys defy physics when they run. |
Here is a video of a running giraffe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsaOn85TqUE
Video credit to user marsicana. Giraffes can run up to 35 mph and always look like they're in slow motion.
The battery on my camera ran out at this point so I'll let Dad take it from here. Joan had been to Zambia and Kenya a number of times but she'd never seen a lion, so that was the mission of the day. We'd been bumping about for a while, getting tips from other safari groups when all of a sudden:
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| The ladies were relaxing in the shade, and there was a young male a little way off. |
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| Fortunately they'd eaten during the night so they didn't leap through the sides of our convertible jeep. |
Flushed with our leonine success we turned and headed back to town so we could catch our flight. We were about 500 yards from the exit when Dad yelled "STOOOOOP!"
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| "Mum chucked me out." |
He was a young male, probably not long left his mum, just sitting by the side of the road about three metres from the jeep. The shouting and resultant shower of gravel didn't put him off and he sat and posed for us for a while before trotting off into the bush.
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| He stayed long enough that we could get some good photos. |
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