Another early awakening to be ready for an outing, today it was the turn of the rhino. We were picked up at 7am and set off to the tracking station to find the position of the rhino, unfortunately that was harder than the guide at first thought as a fire the previous day had displaced all the animals. Rather than sitting in the car and waiting he took us into the bush, along with an armed bloke to fend off any charging animals! A giraffe and her baby was the ...

I made extra sure to say white rabbit, white rabbit, white rabbit this morning: I didn't want to risk any bad luck when I was flying high above Victoria Falls in my Micro light! The man arrived at 7.40am to collect me, with a man from Philadelphia in the van already - he was on his last day but wanted to squeeze in the ride before he left. I paid for the flight with my credit card, which says 'Miss Philippa J Smith' as you'd expect, but the cashier said 'ah, Da...

After the pig roast yesterday, or should I say piglet roast after the size of the thing they strung up, I was ready for my trip to Victoria Falls this morning. As with Lake Kariba I could imagine Mum and Dad seeing the same things I saw today over 30 years ago. Magical. Four of us took a taxi to the falls, costing $15 there and back. We saw the baboons rummaging in the bins and a few coming a little too close for comfort - good job we had some sticks again! W...

What a way to start my time in Livingstone, walking with lions! True they were only 3 years old, but a lion is a lion. We were driven over to the site at 6am as the sun rose above us, given our sticks and told not to let them get behind us. They couldn't find the indemnity forms so they had to wait until after we'd walked with the ferocious man-eaters! One of the lions was called Luigi, a little link with my character at Ben and Laura's wedding! We each had ou...

The last three nights have been spent on a houseboat on the infamous Lake Kariba: infamous because of Dad talking about his ride on it when he was travelling in Africa. I mentioned this and the capenta fish Dad talked about to the guide Heath, and he had the cooks make some! I'm not sure it was just as Dad had it, but very nice to think I was doing as he had all those years ago. Most of the days on the boat were spent twiddling our thumbs, a few games of cards,...