I was up and showering before our 5.25 am call, this was followed by breakfast and away by 6am. Under cloudy skies and much cooler conditions than yesterday we were soon following lion tracks - they must have recently drank in our pan - we followed them all the way back to a dead elephant they had been eating. The young male and female slumped in the road so we stopped and watched them - the female went off round the corner while the male went towards the very wh...

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 tarr...