Johan you rock! I could not believe I was going to spend 2 weeks in Kasane and not actually make it into the National Park. It is supposed to be one of the most amazing parts of this region and I was going to miss it because of broken vehicles and a lack of money?
This is the scene where the lovely next door neighbor comes to the rescue. I guess after Jessica professed her love for him Johan felt he had to get us into the park. So Jessica, Kalanie, and Myself loaded into his beat up old 4x4 and went to see the animals.
It was breathtaking and sad at the same moment. I cannot even begin to list all of the animals that we saw, but the elephants dominated the landscape. Hence the sadness, the elephants have destroyed all of the trees in the park. Honestly there was nothing over 3 tree in height. People in our department have talked / studied this but to see it in person is pretty amazing. I never thought I would support hunting, but they really need to get the elephant population under control.
We saw a collared elephant. Can you imagine being the people who study elephants and have to collar that bad boy? Guess it would be worse to have to collar a hippo.
Did you all know that hippos are the deadliest of African creatures? These vegetarians are very territorial and will kill ya just becuase. At one point we witnessed an interesting encounter between and elephant and a hippo, oddly to me the hippo won. Also odd, he slept through the whole encounter. The elephant walked up to the hippo. The hippo slept. The elephant made a bunch of noise at the hippo. The hippo slept. The elephant threw dirt in the air, and shook it head before storming off. And stil the hippo slept. Never seen someone (yes, I say someone in reference to the hippo) win an argument in slumber.
Day turned out to be pretty amazing.
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