Southern Zimbabwe, Botswana and Northern Namibia are flat and typically straight roads leading to the horizon. The sides of the roads are bush and every bend has a sign to say that there is a bend. A slight rise in the road is met with great exitement if you are not reading. Namibia is mostly desert so I looked for the signs of the change in the vegetation. Palm trees and more arid plant started to appear - the desert is near. Things here are not quite the same...

The next big place was Okavango delta (not Chobe). On the way there we stayed at a camp site that was partially underwater. What was interesting was sitting in the dark at the abandoned bar that was half in the water checking for crocs with our head torches as we drank our bottled beers. It was a bit worrying as you tended to start to forget to keep checking. We took a flight over the delta - very pretty, others did the boat trip so we were left in a s***ty camp...

We left Harare leading for Gwero (12 hours). We stayed at Antelope Park, a rather slick operation that was trying to reintroduce Lions back into the wild in various places in Africa. We got a drum and dance reception when we got there, ice cold drinks and the promise of showers that actually worked. There was pretty much all that you can do with Lions, elephants etc on offer. Being budget conscious we decided to go on a night safari where we followed the Lions th...

The group wasted no time in deciding how they were going to scare the poo out of themselves. Bungees, bridge swings, zip wires etc. The pressure on people not sure whether they wanted to do it was intense. I spent the first morning watching and getting very nervous for them myself. I had done a bungee before so my eyes were set on a gorge swing hailed as being more terrifying than the 111 meter bungee. The gorge swing however was twice the drop and more importa...

A granny type place with the first TV since the start was a big hit with the girls, Dirty dancing and various other chick flicks were viewed end to end. We all decided to check out the local drinking spots. It is a bit dodgy in town so we went to a country club first. It was very tidy place full of white locals. The drinks were very cheap and they did long island ice teas (after we explained how to do them). Needless to say things started to get a bit messy - t...