Today's wake up call was a person knocking on the door but the regime was the same - knock at 5.30 and breakfast at 5.45am. We decided to drive this morning but walk this afternoon - to get different perspectives and also to stop us getting jeep bound! Our safaris always started and ended with a river crossing this meant a great viewing of the martin and beeeater colonies. This mornings highlight was a leopard resting at the edge of a plain watching the Puku -...

While lying in bed I could hear the elephants sloshing through the water and returning to the park having eaten near the village - hopefully not damaging any crops. We were up at 0530; washed and dressed we went to the fire, which was still burning, and sat on the riverbank to watch the sunrise and eat freshly made porridge. All packed we left our belongings in the tent as they were being transferred to Luangwa River camp, our last stop, by road - the NZ couple...

As I put my boot on to go to breakfast I thought I had left some paper or a sock in it - but a quick hand in revealed a large, but soft, frog who had hopped in over night......I quickly found it a new home outside! Today we moved to another Robin Pope camp - Ebony Grove - for one nights rustic camping on the banks of the Luangwa. All packed we left Nkwali, crossed the river again and had a lovely relaxing game drive to the RV point before another trip on the riv...

The drum wake up call reverberated around camp at 5.30am, followed at 5.45 by the breakfast is ready drum. We were close behind and soon eating porridge and toast by the river. Breakfast over we got into the boat, with another couple. and headed off to be reunited with the vehicle and begin our morning drive. We had a great time spotting birds - there were lots of small grass eating specialists to identify. As we were driving around we passed the vehicle from Kas...

We left London last night at 7.15pm and arrived in Lusaka at 6.15am today. By 8am we were seamlessly through immigration, reunited with our luggage, had taken money (kwechas) out of the ATM, paid our domestic departure tax, through domestic departures and on our flight to Mfuwe. We arrived in Mfuwe at 9.10am, and were collected by our guide; we were soon heading towards our first camp, Nkwali via village and bush. Brilliant, it was so effortless to leave Londo...