3 countries in 3 days

Zambezi river 

We started our morning at 6 this morning, I think we were the only people up, it was still dark and cold. We ended up getting frosted flakes at the market and we all had that for breakfast, little did we know we were getting fed like kings on this safari trip. At 7 a bus was at Jollyboys to take us to our destination in Botswana, it was 45 minutes to the border and then we got our passport stamped and took a speed boat across Zambezi River. When we got into Botswana we had to get our passport stamped again and we had to walk in this disinfectant for mad cow disease, it was weird and i didn't understand it, but I did it (looked like muddy water, I didn't want to get my shoes all nasty). Our new driver then took us to this little resort where we paid for our trip and they rewarded us with muffins, donuts, tea and coffee; I think lol or they just thought we should feed them for spending so much (well that's what I thought at least). The food was still warm and it tasted so good, the view was gorgeous-over looking the river and it was a great start to our day.

Our resort for our safari

Flowers in Botswana 

After tea we then started our tour on the water, the boat was like a big pontoon, holding about 35 of us (30 were Koreans, plus us four). We saw loads of crocs and elephants which was really cool. We saw hippos and water bucks (another animal with my last name, ain't that just cool). There were loads of different birds and antelopes that we saw too. The most fun was watching the Koreans just have a blast and taking more pictures imaginable. We started talking to them and they were all from South Korea and were in Africa on a medical conference, taking a few medical and nursing students with them. There was an American and I spotted him a mile away, he was not enthused with all the pictures and animals. I was chatting with him and found out he is from Indiana, what a small world. The Koreans just loved us, kept taking pictures with us, asked us for our emails, made the trip more fun. There was one girl that escaped from North Korea and got into nursing school in South Korea and has one more year left. Pretty crazy to think of what's happening there, we are so fortunate to be able to preach the gospel freely.

Around 12:30 our morning tour ended and we went back for lunch. Let me tell you, this meal was made for a king and his family. They had everything and it was all amazing and fresh and the four of us ate way to much, what us is new. The best part was, we got free wifi for an hour and that was a treat since we have been paying for it at Jollyboys. After lunch we got picked up by our afternoon driver on the land portion of our tour. He took us to a national park but they aren't caged in or anything, they live a normal life with some sand roads where the safari trucks did their tours. We saw more elephants, giraffes, some pumbas and zazoos from the lion king ( the bird and warthog). That was cool, of course I broke out in song from the lion king-" oh I just can't wait to be king." Saw more hippos and monkeys and more birds and antelopes and a few other animals that I don't know their name of-oops. Our tour guy was very funny and it was only the four of us so we got to mess around and get some sweet shots. Then at 4 our tour ended and he took us back to the resort place where we first started, got some cold drinks and then were back on the road back to Zambia. We got onto the speed boat again and got into Zambia, having to pay $50 to get back in, ridiculous! Then another 45 minute ride back in the bus back to Jollyboys, coming in around 6pm.

 



We went to the market again and got more food for dinner, like we need anymore food. We then walked to the bus station to buy our bus passes for tomorrow's trip back to Lusaka. Harriet is getting the bus by herself at 6 in the morning because her flight home is that evening and the 3 of us are getting the 10pm bus through the night and will be getting in around 5-6 Friday morning. We decided it would be cheaper to not spend another night here or a night at the flight house, Jennie and I don't have to catch our plane till the afternoon, so we figured we would go into Lusaka and shop around till our flight leaves. David will be staying in Lusaka for 2 more days and we will be flying back into Loloma.

Tomorrow we were hoping to do water rafting but it is to expensive so we are going to shop and go to the crocodile park, I hope to do one more post before I leave for girls camp. I will be there with Jennie and other women from Loloma from Friday- Tuesday and will be heading to Chit for a few days, volunteering in the mission hospital there. Then I'll be coming back to Loloma next Friday and flying back again to Lusaka and saying the night in the flight house before I head back home to Ohio on the 18th of August. It will go by quick, hoping to get in a few more life changing experiences before I go home. I am heading to bed now, almost midnight here and it's been a long day, good night and God bless!