Day 10,14 July 2012, On Safari - This is what we came to Africa for. Great White Hunters together, we bagged as many stunning wild animals as we could (with our camera of course!) Today we did both a morning game drive and a sunset/evening drive. The photo of the ecstatic leopard in a tree with a fresh dinner of Kudu was the absolute highlight of our day. Apparently you can go a week without a leopard spotting. Though we missed it, the other half of our group...

Day 9, 13 July 2012, Arrival at Wildlife Camp, just outside the border of South Luangwa National Park - Having taken 4-5 hours to travel the 130 km from Chipata to the National Park over the roughest non-roads ever seen, we visited a tribal textile factory followed by the obligatory shop stop. Fortuitously the extras bag (food, snacks, everything that just won't go into the packs) had handed in its notice when we got to camp - so we bought a great new Hardie-pr...

Day 9, 13 July 2012 (Friday), En route from Chipata to South Luangwa National Park, Zambia - "Well it was down in Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarcana in them old, cotton fields back home... " As you can see life passes in a stream of images and songs and over the last couple of days we've seen many fields of "White Gold". Cotton is a cash crop here and the locals love it - they are paid for the bales of cotton and also the cottonseed oil and, at the en...