ALASTAIR + LALEINIA

It is impossible to summarize our African experience and do it any justice with words, but we have to try. As we were creating this video, we were amazed and so appreciative of all the things we have been able to see and do in these last few months. What an experience! We have been able to see such an incredible range of things, from animals to cities, mountains, people, art, and culture. We have traveled in cars, on planes, boats, quad bikes, buses, cable cars, safari trucks, even elephants! We have slept in a beautiful house, nasty (and some nice) hostels, a rondavel, safari tent, cabin, and the back of a car. We have traveled almost constantly, and have even eaten crocodile on more than one occasion. We have had the time of our lives. Being in Africa has strengthened our desire to experience as much of the world as we can. We will definitely look back often with happiness at our time in Southern Africa! And we must say that we wouldn't have been able to enjoy all that we d...

The next port of call on our adventure was to be Kasane, Botswana, which is a short drive and a ferry from Livingstone, Zambia. On our way, we really wanted to visit a small village, since we haven’t really seen the stereotypical village set up since we got here. We were hoping for mud huts in the middle of the bush, and we got mud huts in the bush! About twenty kilometers outside of Livingstone, we stumbled upon a small village that we think is called Simonga. From our car, we saw the straw roofs rising above the tall grass that lined the road, and figured that this must be the place. No sooner than we pulled over, about a dozen children emerged from the bush with massive smiles and excitement. We spent the next hour or so touring their small village. We started at the most important part, the football pitch, and moved on past the houses towards a small school, which had recently been built, but definitely not finished. The village and the school were so cool. The b...

Livingstone, I presume? We started what was to be the most amazing African adventure in Zambia. After the short flight from Johannesburg, we picked up our rental car and headed to the Zambian side of Victoria Falls. On our way, we stumbled on our first baboon (of about 200), and watched as it crossed the road, made a beeline towards someone’s cargo loaded bike, and tore into a sack of grain! We arrived at the Zambian side of the falls with a lot of excitement in our hearts and a lot of free space on our memory cards. Our first stop was to walk away from the falls and towards the Victoria Falls Bridge. The bridge was started and finished in the early nineteen hundreds, and at the time was the highest bridge in the world. (If our facts are wrong, blame the museum that we got them from, and Wikipedia of course.) It was built as part of the Cape to Cairo railroad, and was purposely built close to the falls. Cecil Rhodes, who apparently never saw the falls, insisted that it was b...