Elephants descended on our campsite whilst we were doing the
washing up and we found ourselves surrounded by a large herd. We were enjoying watching them when the camp
attendants appeared clapping and scared the entire herd off.
Took a short game drive around the Linyanti area but soon
found our way blocked by a very stubborn male elephant who definitely wasn’t
going to move so we decided a stand off was not in order and headed towards Savute instead. The road was very deep
sand but I was determined to try driving as I hadn’t attempted deep sand
driving before. It actually wasn’t as
bad as I anticipated and didn’t get stuck.
I did hand back to Ian though before worst section where the dutch
couples had got stuck in their Toyota / Nissan– we sailed through. One up from the Landy!
We had been warned that Savute was a bit dry and it
certainly is. All the water holes were
dry and there was a distinct lack of game.
We headed for the campsite and spent the afternoon relaxing as there was
definitely no point in driving around until it had cooled down. We headed back out at 3.30 and headed for the
one waterhole that was still damp – there were loads of elephants but little
else in sight. A number of safari vehicles
were watching a dead impala up a tree in the hope that the leopard would come
back (we later heard that a group of Japanese tourists were there for 3 hours –
an easy life for their safari driver!).
Our highlight was spotting a family of bat-eared foxes in the distance
plus some ostriches and a genu.
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