Hello everyone!
So after being absent for entirely too long, I'm here once again to update you on my adventures! It's been crazy busy here is Bots - clinical rotations, classes, homework, traveling, and trying to get a little bit of sleep in between. Hopefully I'll be able to update you all on my daily life soon, but right now I want to focus on my amazing trip to Victoria Falls last weekend!
Since we had only been in Botswana for a week, we hardly had any time at all to plan the trip. Luckily, Vicki and Janine, two of my friends, found the time to pull it all together for 23 of us in the program! Snaps for Vicki and Janine! :)
We ended up leaving for Zimbabwe Friday morning at 4:00. Most of us just dragged ourselves out of bed, into the private bus we had hired, and promptly passed out again. By the time we woke up, we were already halfway across the country! We were passing different signs that warned us of crossing pedestrians (normal), cows (a bit odd), and impala (well, we are in Africa, right?). But the next sign I saw looked something like this...
Elephant Crossing....Excuse me, what???
And the next thing I know, the driver is slowing down the car and I look out the window to see this guy staring back at me!!
Say hello!
Absolutely crazy! I was completely beside myself for the rest of the trip. There was a real life elephant just chilling on the side of a highway. It still blows my mind. But he wasn't the only friend we saw on the way there!
Kudu
If you look realllllyyyy closely behind the tree in the center, you will see a giraffe. Or maybe just a tree. There was definitely a giraffe in real life though!
Some monkey friends greeting us at the Zimbabwe border!
By the time we changed our money back to USD (it was so odd using it again) and gotten situated in our hostel, it was pretty late, so we ate at the hostel resturant and turned in for the night.
The next morning, a group of us went into the Victoria Falls Park to get pictures. I've seen pictures of the Falls before, but absolutely nothing compares to seeing them in person. Just hearing the water come crashing down is a wonder. I got a few good pictures, but it hardly does it justice.
Heading into the Park!
This was a much more difficult picture to take than I expected - took about 7 tries. I thought I would just show you the best one!
The Victoria Falls Bridge
Gotta love that ADPi <>
By the time we were done with the Park we were thoroughly soaked. Right now is the peak of their flood season - all the water from the rainy season at the Zambezi basin in November has finally made it down to Victoria Falls - so the spray coming up from the Falls was insane! Towards the end of the path there's an area that you can go out to and essentially take a shower because the water is coming down so hard. I chose not to get completely soaked because soon after I was heading to BUNGEE JUMPING!!! I'll do another post for that alone so I don't overload you with pictures! But I'll leave you with one of my favorite ones.
"And God saw all that he had made, and it was very good."
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