Well here I am once more, braving the wilds of african internet. Mainly it requires great patience.
We made it through Mozambique just fine, we were too far inland to be affected by the cyclone, although we did see an amazing lighting show that night - camped out in the middle of nowhere, cooking pasta and watching the storm all around us.
After just a night in Mozambique we drove into Zimbabwe, where we've been for the last 10 days. Zimbabwe is an interesting country; it seems to have a lot of different sides to it, contradictions...
I do love it though, the scenery is beautiful and the people are really nice, if a little sad and worn down with all the political, economic and other troubles they're having.
Things I have been up to in Zim: Walking with lions (cubs raised in captivity) Riding elephants, swimming on elephants (sillier than it sounds, even), baking chocolate cakes without a recipe, tracking rhinos in Matopos national park, feeding biscuits to giant lizards, learning to play the bongo, changing money on the black market, sneaking into victoria falls after dark to see the lunar rainbow, dancing, eating local foods and tourist foods and trying to stay amused while we are stuck at victoria falls, waiting for our driver to recover from malaria...
Only 2 weeks left! We are on our way to Botswana tomorrow.
