Woo hoo it's my birthday and I got to skype Mum with video - clearly some birthday luck! I was on cook group this morning so got up and assisted with cooking pancakes for everyone. My cook group offered to do breakfast without me, but didn't want to make them do all the work and to be fair, if you are not cooking there is not much else to do on a day when we are not moving. We headed to Matopos National Park for a spot of Rhino walking. This morning we went...

Last night we enjoyed a bonfire in the fire pit by our truck and a few drinks. I held to my new years resolution of not drinking African Vodka as it stripped some people's intestines this morning I knew I had made the right decision. It was Rory's birthday so it was nice to have a little sing song along to his guitar playing and even some roasted marshmallows! Thank goodness it was just Nick who came and begrudgingly allowed us some marshmallows off the truc...

Woke this morning at 5am excited for the day ahead. Planned with Laura last night that we would wake with enough time prior to our 6.10am meeting time to get up and do a little straightening of our locks - it seems like weeks since I have had good/normal hair in photos and not had a bandana on, so the early rise was well worth it in my eyes. Donned dark clothes, picked up camera and sunglasses and I was ready to walk with Lions! Yes, you read that correctly,...

Camp was broken extra quick this morning as Ruth took a turn for the worst and we needed to get her back to a clinic. We hit the road at 7am and were at the clinic by 8am. Ruth spent till midday in the clinic getting more drugs administered by drip and having tests. The malaria has now gone according to the tests, however it seems that dehydration and a stomach infection had set in. Considering she was carried off the truck at 8am, it was amazing that she w...

On our way to Great Zimbabwe ruins we stopped at a stone market. Seems Malawi is all about the wood and Zimbabwe is all about the stone. The carvings are amazing and really detailed. Small problem is the weight - but I am not thinking about transporting things to Australia until South Africa so some Rhino bookends, a giraffe head carving and hippo carving I was done - surely can't be more than 6 more kilos to my overall luggage of about 100kg so far J We go...