Aha! Tis the new year! I must say I have seriously fallen by the wayside with this blogging business. I guess I burned out a bit, felt a little unsure of what this blog should be. The pressure of making regular posts had become quite stressful (urh, not that I posted all that regularly), but in the new year, I hope to gain better perspective with this blog thingy (which means I still haven't really figured it out yet), and make well thought out, meaningful artwork and occasional ramblings!
Right ho! as you may have gathered from the title, we (Alex & I) went to Victoria Falls for 7 days over new years. We went in this-
Pretty hardcore right? This is Africa we're talking about! We drove in a convoy of trucks for 4 days there and back, it was quite a journey... most of which I slept through...
We finally got to the Botswana border in the afternoon, it was blazingly hot, I felt like I was being slowly roasted...
Right ho! as you may have gathered from the title, we (Alex & I) went to Victoria Falls for 7 days over new years. We went in this-
An Overlander truck called "Nina"
Pretty hardcore right? This is Africa we're talking about! We drove in a convoy of trucks for 4 days there and back, it was quite a journey... most of which I slept through...
This was our route...
Let's go!
Aah the open road (behind us...)
We passed swarms of these, so pretty...
We finally got to the Botswana border in the afternoon, it was blazingly hot, I felt like I was being slowly roasted...
Look at this massive queue! Impending heat stroke queue of doom!
Eventually, everyone got through and it was only another hour or so to our camp for the night, which only means one thing...
Drink time!
We set up tents in the gathering gloom, and proceeded to cover ourselves with tabard... Camp Itumela (where we stayed in Botswana) was a bug haven to mainly 3 kinds of creepy crawlies - mopane worms (thicker than my finger), these small worms that dangle from the trees at an annoying face/head height and red romans - a very creepy spider that runs towards light. I don't know if it was bug season or it's normal for that place, but the trees were full of mopane worms - eeek! That's too much nature for me...
Hmm, but what do I care? I was clearly drunk by then... yes, that's not entirely sprite in that sprite bottle...
The next morning, on the road again! At 6am!
Heehee~
The never ending African savanna...
As we got closer to the Zimbabwean border, we passed herds of elephants grazing on the side of the road!
This one was quite unperturbed by our truck stopping quite close to him/her. What a wonderful creature ^_^ He's scratching his leg with his other foot :D
We have arrived at our destination! Its to be our home for the next 3 days. Aah camping on grass, what luxury! Our shenanigans to follow in part 2 :)
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