Africa - Day 5

 

After staying at Dunkheld Estates, we continued our drive to Kruger National Park to see some animals!!

The beautiful view from the mountains we had to drive across to get to Kruger.

 

A Cape Buffalo

 

A bushbuck

 

I can't tell you how many times we saw this.

There really should be a sign for Elephant Crossing.....

Giraffes were everywhere. Zebras were a little more shy while we were there.

 

I love giraffes!!!!

This is by far my favorite.

Impalas were everywhere. By the middle of our second day, we just drove right by them. No need to stop, there's thousands of them

 

A Klipspringer.

A kudu

 

Some ugly and nasty lizard

 

Africa - Day 4

 

Day 4 was a travel day for us. We left Zambia in the afternoon and headed back to Jo'burg.

Before we left Livingston, we all grabbed some shots of the river in the morning light.

 

On our way to the airport, we made a quick stop at the Fire Station. I was a volunteer fire fighter and wanted to take some pictures of a foreign fire station to show my fellow fire fighters.

 

 

Africa - Day 3

We spent Day 3 at Victoria Falls.
They were UNBELIEVABLE!!
No picture ever taken could possibly do this place justice.

These are cell phone towers. Both in Zambia and in South Africa, cell phone towers are disguised as different types of tree....very creative, maybe we need some!

These baboons were inside the park at Vic Falls. They would walk right by us and not even notice we were there.

Except for this guy. After taking his picture and continuing our walk to exit the park, he decided he liked me and followed me to the exit gate. Talk about cool and scary all at the same time.

This is the Zambian side of Vic Falls. Unfortunately we were there during the dry season. Normally the entire ridge is covered with Zambezi River which is the river that creates the falls.

This is shows the Zim side of the falls which was flowing.

The rainbows created by the falls

Victoria Falls

The mist is called "the smoke that thunders"

And this is Devil's Cataract. There is a small pool out there that sits on the edge of the falls. To get there you have to walk across the river holding onto a rope. None of us were brave enough to go out there, so we just watched and soaked our feet in the Zambezi River.

The group back at the Royal Livingston Hotel

This monkey was not afraid of us or anyone else for that matter. He jumped right up on their table and stole the fruit out of their drinks.

The river. If you look close enough you can see the mist from the falls

And, of course, another amazing sunset.