AFRICA HIGHLIGHTS

Having spent 7 weeks and visiting 8 different countries we feel that we have come to know Africa a bit better and have gained a better appreciation of just how large the African continent is. It is challenging to pick only one highlight from each country but here goes:

KENYA

Jackie: watching a lioness take down a wildebeest in the Massai Mara

Steve: watching giraffes eat and run

ZANZIBAR, TANZANIA

Jackie: scuba diving and seeing sea turtles

Steve: scuba diving and the sheer quantity of fish

RWANDA

Jackie: spending an hour up close and personal with Mountain Gorilla's in Volcanoes National Park

Steve: golden monkeys in Volcanoes National Park

NAMBIA

Jackie: spending by 50th birthday hiking up red sand dunes in the Namib Desert

Steve: watching the drama unfold at water holes

BOTSWANA

For both of us: sitting and watching large groups of elephants vie for water at the small water hole at Elephant Sands.

ZAMBIA:

Jackie:  rafting class 5 rapids on the Zambezi River

Steve: Top Gun helicopter ride racing down the Zambezi rapids

ZIMBABWE: 

For both seeing a rainbow over through Victoria Falls 

SOUTH AFRICA: 

Jackie: tasting champagne at Simsonsig Winery in Stellenbosch

Steve: hiking up Table Mountain in Cape Town

AND because we stayed in some amazing accommodation. Our favourite places to stay.

Jackie: Nyungwe Forest Lodge in Rwanda. The main dining room and bar was so beautifully done in rock and huge windows. The individual sleeping lodges looked very plain and basic from the outside but inside were very new, spacious,  bright, modern, decorated with traditional african art, had huge windows and had a  private deck overlooking the forest.

Steve: Dolmite Camp in Etosha National Park in Namibia because not only was it it a deluxe tent with no view of any other accommodation it came with a private swimming pool with views over the nambian plains. 

PRIVATE SWIMMING POOL....how cool is that!!