Zimbabwe and the Zambezi

At last a decent internet connection. We're currently in Zimbabwe at Victoria Falls have a rather smashing time of it all. We arrived yesterday lunchtime and after a stroll into town, went on an elephant back safari ride. All the elephants have been rescued and have got themselves a nice little life at the camp. They live in the National Park, no fences so they're free to leave if they really don't like it, take tourists on a hour trek once or twice a day, get fed treats at the end of the trek and then spend the rest of their waking hours wandering round the bush mainly eating and pooing.

Today though was our best day yet - we white water rafted down the Zambezi River. We did 21 rapids in all (not including the ungraded ones) and several of those were grade 5, there was one grade 6 but even the crew don't do that one at this time of year so we walked round that one! For the morning we were joined by two 60+ Spanish men who didn't speak very good English so their morning passed in a blissfully unaware soggy blur clutching onto the rope at the edge. We were doing exactly the same at the front of boat but we knew exactly how long the rapids would drag us under for if we let go of the boat so we didn't.

This afternoon we 'helped' paddle the raft through the remaining 11 rapids and only on the 18th rapid the raft almost flipped and kate and 2 crew fell off but somehow I and another guy stayed on. Luckily that's a 'nice' rapid to fall off at, so we all jumped off the raft and let the current drag us down the river. We saw 3 or 4 crocodiles throughout the day mainly sat sunning themselves on rocks and fortunately none fancied us for lunch so we're still here to tell the tale.

Tomorrow we're finally off the see the Falls so we'll next be reporting from Cape Town.....

Rx