Spring/Fall Break!

Last week was our mid-semester vacation (I keep calling it Spring Break, but it's fall here, so Easter Break or Fall Break or Vac is what people actually refer to it as)! I went on a guided tour to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, Chobe National Park in Botswana and Kruger National Park in SA. It was incredible! It was a budget trip, so we camped out every night and made our dinner on the campsite most nights (also, ate a lot of fast food).
It was 8 days, but I'm just gonna give you the highlights of the trip:

• Victoria Falls was one of the most breath taking things I've ever seen, and my favorite part of the trip. The town of Victoria Falls is also cool, it's small, and pretty touristy, but not in the upscale way that Cape Town is. This was the only place where we really got to hang out and get to know local people, and we made a bunch of friends there.

 My friends and I at the hostel/bar we stayed at before we met up with the tour

 Elephant ride safari! (btw, i'm afraid of animals)

 So many rainbows at Vic Falls!

The mist was sooo intense, we got completely soaked!

In the Zambezi River canyon those of us who were way to scared to bungee jump went zip lining and gorge swinging!

• After Victoria Falls, we drove 2384098 hours across the border to Chobe National Park in Botswana. We did some game drives there, but most note-worthy was our sunset cruise safari.

 A family of elephants!

 Hippo

The sunset was incredible here

 Buffalo!

• After we did Chobe National Park, we drove through Botswana, crossed the border (over a full day of driving) and went to Kruger National Park in Limpopo, SA. I'm not going to bore you with 80813 pictures of animals, so here are a few nice ones:

 Most incredible siting of my entire life: we spotted two lions mating on the side of the road. Apparently when its the season, the male and female leave the rest of the pride, find a secluded location and mate every fifteen minutes (it only lasted like 30 seconds) for a couple of days. Powerful stuff, man.

• After a few days in Kruger, we began our drive back to Johannesburg, through the Blyde River Canyon, which made for another breath taking view:

Yeah, so that's the highlights, hope you enjoyed it!