Safari Day 10 - Warthogs, not visas

Highlight of the day: nearly being chased by a family of warthogs

This morning we packed up and left Bulawayo, in time to reach Victoria Falls in the afternoon. Victoria Falls is on the Zambezi river, bordering both Zimbabwe and Zambia, and is one of the seven Natural Wonders of the World, and the largest waterfalls on earth.

After an agonizingly long visit to an office for booking adrenaline activities, we headed to the campsite, set up our tents and had lunch. The rest of the afternoon was free to do whatever. Most of us had to extend our Zimbabwe visas, since the guys at the border only gave us 7 days. So we walked down to the border, and after a bit of a hassle, managed to convince the immigration guys to extend them. But we needed a paper we got with our original visas, and ours were still securely locked up in the truck safe. Nigel and I headed back to camp but Toni wasn't around to open the truck so we went and bought some beer and sat at the campsite drinking. When we were able to get the papers we needed, we headed back down to the border. We didn't want to get stuck walking back to camp in the dark, since we'd seen lots of police activity earlier in the day. This comprised bicycle cops chasing guys running on foot. Eventually they were apprehended, cuffed, and calmly walked to who knows where. We're not sure what these guys were wanted for, but no one looked too troubled by the whole thing, including the offenders! So we didn't waste any time contemplating the consequences of walking past some warthogs just outside the immigration building. The big huge dad with big huge tusks was on the left side of the road, and the mum and two kids were on the right side. We could have waited for the dad to join his family, but didn't. Instead we quickly walked by, getting some angry stares from big daddy since we got between him and his family. But in the end I think he was too lazy to do anything.

We got our visas extended and made it back to camp in time to have a shower before dinner. We went to Croc rock to see the local band but they wer not there so we had a few drinks before heading back to camp and to bed, exhausted.