First Time Lucky Africa

Africa has always been somewhere I’ve wanted to go. It has an extraordinary history, vast areas of wilderness and incredible wildlife. But where in Africa? We’d already settled on doing a leg in Botswana, starting from Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, so it seemed daft to be travelling all that way and not do a little bit more . . . Zimbabwe wasn’t on my consideration list until I started reading safaritalk, a forum full of people’s amazing trips all throughout Africa. I poured over trip reports, full of beautiful photos of people walking, with their guides, in Mana Pools National Park. This was what I wanted to do and Ben wasn’t going to say no!   New Zealand to Zimbabwe is not a speedy journey, but three international flights and one brief hotel airport night later and we had finally arrived in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. On arrival we were met by Peter, our pilot for the next leg, and went straight back through security to get on the little safari charte...