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Fantastic: i lost count of days; i fact i barely know what day it is - morning, afternoon, who the f*** cares? I love this. The road is just straight ahead, palm trees and baobabs everywhere, terracotta sands, small colourful building and the airstream blowing free through the small shaded rooms, people chilling on the porch or listening to music, the midday sun roasting every little thing that comes in the way of its loving beams.
Trying to reestablish a connection to the world, i think back to Victoria Falls. A stunning place at the border between Zim & Zam ( Zimbabwe & Zambia), where you can see rainbows everyday. The falls are absolutely massive-1 million liters of water per second; -so powerful, it made me feel every little molecule of my body. I kept walking along them and with every step i took i just realized more and more how amazing the nature is. David livingstone, when he first saw the falls wrote in his journal:" on sights as beautiful as this, angels in their flight must have gazed". He named the falls after the queen of England, but are still known as " the smoke that thunders" ( mosi-oa-tunya) in the Kololo language. The falls are 1.7 km wide and 108 m high!even it is the dry season we did get wet from top to toe! But now, as long as the Falls are on the border should it be Zim or Zam the spot the visit? I chose the Zim side cause it's less visited by tourist,
though on the Zam side you can almost stand on top of the Falls.The border is a bridge, 111m high, and it's one of the places if you need an adrenaline kick! Bungee jumping off the bridge, gorge swing, flying fox, water-rafting. I didn't feel like pumping up my blood pressure, so just took a bike and pushed the pedals around, chatted to the locals and had some " sunshine, moonlight, good times, boogie" moments! I met some nice artist, who were doing Poi and playing the drums for us!
Another country, another adventure, a whole new world to drive thru: crossing into Botswana. After one night bushcamping ( the bushcamp was a real one, cause we were chatting till midnight and when we finally were about to zip our sleepingbags and fall asleep, we hear drums- coming closer and closer, in the middle of nowhere in Botswana. Of course, first I was a bit scared of the unknown, the drums were still getting closer and women, men and children were singing in a language, obviously, we couldn't understand. It was a bit creepy till we thought it's saturday night and they are probably celebrating something. First I thought we were on their territory and they came to hunt us away, i imagined a spear penetrating the tent, right over my nose tip and other creepy stuff. But then, I realized the torches on fire were not a sign of war, they were just used to light the way! :) )and then in Kasane we drive to Maun and from there the next morning to the
Okavango Delta, a place i wad really looking forward to and it was worth it! We woke up eatly and were pocked up by a zruck who took us all the way to the dekta. It was a 1 h 45 drive, cause we are in the dry season. Just before the mokoro station our mighty truck gets stuck and we have to carry all our belongings and food and pots and grill to the mokoros. Not too far, and it was really fun, even though except me, Gaz and Megs everybody went just one way. We went back to bring some more stuff, i think that's the way we should help eachother and i am really happy thaz there are at least some people on this truck like me! Exploring the delta of the Okavango river, 1430 km long, starting in Angola andcending in Botswana in the shape of a 18.5 billion cubic metres of water annualy spread like an open palm across the flat landscape as they're consumed by the thirsty air and swallowed by the Kalahari sands. The delta is a 16000 sq km maze of lagoons,
channels and islands- some of them dissapearing in the wet season. We went to the eastern delta, with the traditional dugout canoe and had two bushcamps there with the local guidrsm, which were really cool. They took us for several bushwalks so we got to approach elephants and zebras by walking! The end of the Delta trip was crowned by the flight: a 5 seater plane , with an awsome pilot who twisted the plane to 90 degrees so we can see more. I really enjoyed that ride, although the rest of the girls were really scared! All i could think about was how amazing skydiving will be! We saw elephants and hippos and the most important to be mentioned is the landscape: i could actually see the earth being round in all his charm and beauty!then we head back to the Sitatunga camp, where we were attack by stinkbugs: they were allover, even in our wine glasses! :)
The next morning we cross into Namibia- known as the country that God has made in anger. Because some people left the truck, we have a higher budget so we upgraded frombushcamping to campsite. But on our way to the campsite with the funky toilets our truck broke down so we had to walk for about 4 km with a bowl of pasta salad, cause it was lunchtime! :) i really love it when unexpected happens!
The next day was a really long drive day, but Gaz kept me busy so i didn' t really feel the 10 hours of driving. We were finally playing a game! Now we are bushcamping somewhere in Namibia and tomorrow we will have our last game drive in the Etosha Nat'l Park.:(
Location: truck beach
Soundtrack: fila brazilia
23/01/2010
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