Tuesday 06 November
At 5.30 we start for a 3hours walk through the bush, today Inge has 2 guides.
inge+guides
We say good morning to the zebra’s.
zebra’s
We see more animals than yesterday.
pumba
Elephants are eating the leaves with their curved trunk.
elephant
They create the leaves to enormous piles of shit. The termites create a hill out of it.
According to the guide a hill as on the picture takes 30years under the ground and 35 years above the ground
termitehill
During the 3 hours sleep of an elephant, he likes to rest his very heavy head on a hill.
Elephant eat about 250kg per day, and drink 250L water.
bushwalk
After a 3,5hour walk we return to our camp, the chef creates a lunch.
chef
And after that we have the real African feeling, we have to wait in the shadow of a tree until we leave the island.
waiting
At 13.00 we break down the camp and load it into the mokoro´s.
crew
Dirk-jan+Inge
During the very peaceful boat trip we meet the hippo’s again.
One of them shows his new dentist workshop.
Hippo’s
After this boat trip we enter the noisy bumping LandRover of the campsite. For a 2 hours drive.
car
The car quits halfway, and the driver fix it with a table-knife.
Back on the campsite we take a refreshing dive in the pool.
Tomorrow we go in the direction of Nata
Dirk-jan en Inge