Bungee Jump to Sand Boarding and Everything in Between

So, where did I leave you? Oh, thats right at Victoria Falls.

After white water rafting on the Zambezi I thought I would try to kill myself in an even more extreme and extravagant fashion- I jumped off the bridge that connects Zimbabwe to Zambia not once, but three times. We did the Flying fox (a zip line that was really just a warm up for the main event), a bungee jump and a bridge swing. The bungee jump was incredible, so exhilirating! Not once did I worry about the Zimbabwean health and safety conditions nor the quality of hospitals should anything unfortunate happen. The good news is that I survived the jumps. The less good news is that Luke did not.

Ok, that sounded a little dramatic. He didnt die or anything, simply sprained his ankle. To be honest, Im just glad he went after me, because if i had seen him do that, who knows whether I would have jumped or not.

Later that day, with Luke hobbling along we crossed over to Zambia for the day to do a Microlight flight over the Falls. The microlight is basically a golf buggy with a propellor, and so did not instill a great deal of confidence in me. The views were flippin spectacular.

Since then, we have travelled through Botswana and we are currently in Swakopmund, Namibia. Botswana was (unsuprisingly) noticeably more prosperous than Zimbabwe. Despite this, most of our time there was spent camping in the bush in the Okavango Delta. This meant a hole in the ground for a toilet and the Delta water (crocodiles and hippos included) as a bath tub.

As for Namibia, it has been by far the best country for Safari-ing. We spent two nights at Etosha National Park and were able to see the big 5 plus a lot more. The campsites were situated around floodlit waterholes and so at night we were able to sit, beer in hand, and watch the animals. On the first night we were even able to see a leopard which had previously eluded us.

As well as the leopard, the other main highlight was seeing a lion kill. We watched as a big male lion crept up on a sleeping/possibly injured/possibly deaf young hyena. It then proceeded to pounce and break its neck. We heard the neck snap- Gruesome but awesome.

Since then we also visited a cheetah farm where we were able to walk with, pet and see the feeding of the cheetahs. It all went by pretty quickly really.

As for today, we just got back from Sanboarding - this consisted of us pelting ourselves down 100m high sand dunes at 70kph+ on a fairly flimsy board - the Kalahari Ferrari, as our instructors called it. The speed was incredible, hiking back up the dunes and later removing the sand from every nook and cranny was less amusing.

So that brings me to now. Here I am in an internet cafe in Swapokmund, Namibia, with a painfully slow internet connection. I'd better go, got 7 minutes of internet left, and I need to find out how on earth Spurs were able to sign Van der Vaart!

Love to all x x x