Spring Break 2010!

Spring break is here! Tomorrow morning I leave at 4:30 in the morning along with my tour group of twenty students for Cape Town International Airport where we’ll catch a flight to Johannesburg. From there we hop on a bus to Botswana. My tour guide is a professional game hunter named Bo. He’s the guy wildlife parks call when the animal populations get too high or when there’s a rogue lion that needs to be taken care of. I’m glad he’ll be the one in charge of my safety when I’m camping out in the wilderness. We spend one night at a campsite in Botswana before heading out to the Okavango Delta, one of the most beautiful places on the planet. We’ll spend about three days in the Delta, where we’ll hopefully see lots of wild animals, before heading out to the Chobe National Park. Chobe is the first national park in Botswana and has one of the highest concentrations of wild game on the continent. Hopefully I’ll have seen at least one of the ‘Big Five’ by the time we leave Chobe. The Big Five are the five top animals people hope to see in southern Africa. Hunters originally coined the term because the Big Five were the five hardest animals to hunt on foot. Seeing them is definitely a big deal. The Big Five are lions, African elephants, Cape buffalo, leopards, and rhinos. After a couple days in Chobe we’ll drive to Zambia where we’ll spend a few days at Victoria Falls. Victoria Falls is right between Zambia and Zimbabwe, and we’ll have the opportunity to travel into Zimbabwe if we so choose. There are a bunch of activities to choose from during the two full days we spend at Victoria Falls, such as walking with lions, a river rafting/cruise down the Zambezi River, and other things that I can’t remember. I’m beyond excited, and can’t wait for tomorrow morning to come! Wish me luck!

-Sarah