Review: Africa Safari, Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cape Town, Kruger National Park, Table Mountain, Victoria Falls

The entire trip was memorable so I will pick three or four of the best.

In Leopard Hills near Kruger in South Africa in addition to seeing 5 different leopards in three days, we experienced an elephant walk over to our back deck which was open to the bush, place one knee on the deck and stick his trunk into our plunge pool and spend twenty minutes drinking from the pool ten feet from our room.  Wow!

The walk along Victoria Falls was breathtaking.  When they talk about wearing a rain poncho to protect against the "mist," what they mean is that you will experience, in some areas of the 3 kilometer walk, what it feels like to be in a hurricane.  The falls creates its own weather including, in spots, wind and torrential rain.  But it was really fun and exciting.

At our  last venue, Savute Safari Lodge, in Botswana, on our last day we viewed three huge and beautiful male lions strategize and execute the take down of a zebra, a powerful and brutal part of nature and one rarely seen even by the guides themselves.  

In Savute and Camp Xakanaxa, also in Botswana, each night the staff performed with singing and dancing in local tradition before dinner.  They seemed to genuinely enjoy doing it.