August 4
We flew from Johannesburg to Livingstone this morning. In the afternoon we wandered around the hotel grounds and then spent two hours looking at Victoria Falls from different angles and in different lighting (including sunset). Our hotel is very close to the Zambian side of the falls, and is surrounded by national park land. One consequence of that setting is that there are impala, giraffe, zebra and particularly baboons, everywhere. The animals were all very calm about humans, in fact we had to keep apologizing to them as we walked on the grass to let them have the sidewalk. The baboon family groups were particularly fun; the children loved to roughhouse and explore. To see a mother baboon grab her young one by the hand and drag him back to the family group was almost too familiar. (Of course we also saw birds today...) We ate dinner outdoors tonight, enjoying traditional Zambian food, music and dancing.
Pictured: baby Chacma baboon, southern cordon bleu, trumpeter hornbill, Victoria Falls at sunset
Baby baboon too cute for his own good.
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