Oasis tour,

After leaving joburg i arrived in Victoria falls (Zimbabwe) at about 2 o'clock but after struggling through immigration and arguing with a taxi driver i eventually got to the camp we where staying at around 4pm. Giving me enough time to squeeze a quick bungee jump in. I arrived at the camp and soon found the big yellow truck that we have been traveling on. I met up with the tour leader, Sam, and she assured me i could get a quick jump in with another girl who was looking to do it. We jumped into the back of a bakkie (pick up) and drove to the Zambia border as the jump was on the other side. We managed to get to the bridge 15min before i closed so where rushed through the procedures and strapped up. Firstly i did the bungee a 110 meter fall (which was terrifying) closely followed by a bridge swing which has the same fall but swings you across the river instead on bouncing you above it. The day was hectic, i left South Africa at 11am, landed in Zimbabwe at 2pm, crossed into Zambia at about 3.30pm and jumped off a bridge a 4pm. All before i had even met the group i was traveling with.

That night i met the group all 24 people that i would be traveling with for the next three weeks. There are people from all over and of all ages making the experience much more interesting.

The next moring we left for botswana ( my 4th country in 24 hours ). Botswana was a surprise with almost all the roads we traveled on being tar but very straight. Some of the roads where straight as far as you could see but with long grass and trees on either side we often stopped for elephants that wanted to cross the road. We traveled through botswana heading for Chobe national park where we did a river cruise on a large flat based boat. The cruise was excellent as we saw lots of game from the river an angel i have never experienced, it was also great to test my knowledge that i picked up in Kruger NP.

A day or so later we headed for The Okavango Delta the biggest oasis in the world where the river from the rain forest in Uganda a Rwanda is absorded into the sand of the Kalahari desert and never reaches the sea. At the okavango we did a three day trip into the delta. Taking with us food, tents, water and everything we would need for the two night. To get into the delta we had to travel by mokoro ( cannoe dug out of a sausage tree, however for saftey most are now fiber glass ). The mokoros took us on a 3 hour trip into the delta through long reeds and open water ways. It was a clear day and about 30 degrees which made me feel slightly sorry for the poler on the back who pushes the mokoro with a 15 foot pole. After about 3 hours we found a spot to make camp and then set off on a game walk to have a look round the island we had landed on.

For the next two days we did a couple of walks and mokoro trip to see what game we could find and also had a go at pushing the mokoro which was surprisingly hard.

After the Delta we drove for a couple of days pulling into towns to grab supplies and pulling off the road into the bush to make a rough camp for the night. After a few days driving we left Botswana and entered Namibia and drove to Etosha NP (national park). Where we saw lots of game and a few things i hadn't seen yet like ghemsbok, Heaterbeast, springbok and jackels. We did a two day safari and stayed at a great camp site which had a watering hole with viewing decks and dimmed lights so we could watch all night. After dinner we went down to the watering hole with sleeping bags and water planning to spend the nigh there. And it payed off. At about 11o'clock we had a black rhino appear from the darkness and come to drink closely followed by 6 white rhinos making it an unbelievable viewing of 7 rhinos with black and white rhinos integrating. After they left an elephant and a couple of giraffe. After that we had several hours of nothing which lead to us falling asleep. However we where soon woken by two young male lions roaring as they came down to drink.

After ethosha we started heading south, staying in places like the hamesburg mountains and other ranges where we found cave paintings. After a few days driving and a day or two to go before we reached or next destination (Swakopmund). Me and a few others left to truck for a night to watch the 20 20 world cup final which we managed to find on a tv in a bar in a small fiushing town and also manged to find great accomidation for the night. The next morning we left early and managed to get to Swakopmund before the truck and checked into the hostel and awaited their arrival.

Swakopmund was amazing right on the skeleton coast of nambia where the desert and ocean meet. There we had the option to do some adrenaline sports. After consulting my budget i decided to skydive, sand bored and quadbike. Which where all amazing experiences, especialy the skydive where we traveled to 10,000 feet and fell to 4000.

After that we traveled to stelin bosh and did wine tasting and i am now in cape town SA.

I am now home in a week and will write again there to finish this off. :(