Day 2 of Africa

After getting a good night's sleep (philly's first night in AC in over 2 years) we headed to the airport to catch a flight to Livingston. Where is Livingston you might ask? Well, none of us knew either. My favorite guess was Zaire from Mr. Kim. PS Zaire doesn't exist as a country anymore and is up in the Congo. When we arrived, and waiting at the Customs counter, I went to the bathroom and what do I see? I large box of condoms with pamphlets about HIV. Through out the trip I noticed many signs, condom boxes and pamphlets in many of the tribal languages as rates in these countries are estimated to be up to 40%.
The customs officer asked Mr. Kim where he was going and he replied, "Namibia." The guy just looked at him. After paying 35$ each to enter into the country, we were picked up by a private driver and driving to the Victoria Falls. There were incredible to see. This is were Zimbabwe, Namibia, and Botswana meet. As we hiked along the top, it was amazing to see how the water went from such a slow moving pace to such fury underneath. AFter that we were driven to Botswana to meet up with our safari group. We were a little late and caught up with them on the Chobe River Cruise.
Here we saw a herd of elephants playing in the water, hippos, baboons, dlc (deer-like creatures), crocs and wart hogs. Mr. Kim bought a 500 mm camera lens so the pictures were amazing and the camera weighed a ton. We had one couple from Italy, one from Malasia and 2 boys from the UK with us. Our tour guide was Ken, who spoke so many of the tribal languages and was great.