Transit day - we were collected from Latitude 15 at 8 am and arrived at the Zimbabwe border at 11am - on the journey the roads went from excellent to very bumpy as we approached Chirundu, the border town. That said the new road, being built by the Chinese is taking shape and eventually there will be an excellent link from Lusaka all the way to South Africa via Zimbabwe.
Doug MacDonald our guide met us at the border for the next part of the trip - 2 hours on tarred and untarred roads to Kanga Pan Camp, in the Mana Pools National Park.
We arrived in time for lunch - the camp sits on a pan filled with water and consequently it is visited by a range of wildlife - elephants, baboons, impala and a female sparrow hawk all visited while we watched.
In the afternoon, after unpacking and a snooze, we headed off to see if we could find where the wild dog were denning - success - we could glimpse them through thick bush. As we didn't want to disturb them we headed off to a nearby pan to see if they would come to drink - they didn't - but we did see two families of elephant - posturing, showing dominance, protecting their youngsters and drinking at the waters edge, cape turtle doves and grey headed parrots drinking, spine tails, Meyers brown parrots and mosque swallows flying overhead and finally two old buffalo coming to drink.
We returned for supper and an early night - retiring at 8.40pm - eyes closing!