As expected (from those who know me well), seeing animals was high on the priority list. Ah ha and last weekend I saw some! I went with my Czech friends to the home of their friend (a Czech woman and her Zambian husband). Most of the day was spent eating a delicious home-cooked meal (a Zambian lasagna sort of thing - rice, snow peas, cinnamon...), looking at their paintings and playing volleyball in their backyard (they have a beautiful garden which is pretty rare in dry Zambia!). In the late afternoon we climbed into the back of their pick-up truck and went to a game park (animal park!) nearby. Please note, it is my photo taking skills (on shaky trucks) that is not excellent, the animals were quite excellent. The first (and most impressive) animal I saw was a giraffe, eating leaves by the side of the road! It was amazing to see this huge animal in the wild, and it looked a lot browner than I expected (maybe this giraffe had a tan? ha). Throughout the trip we saw Pukus (they only live in Zambia – no where else in Africa!)… there’s no photo of them because they are very quick (but they look a lot like deer). Next we saw a herd of wildebeests (I swear, those bumps in the photo are wildebeests!) – they’re pretty big animals with horns (to me they look like yaks). Haha and the funniest animals were the warthogs – they have these huge tusks that look way too big for their body and they trot around so primly (snout high in the air, tail vertical, hooves lifted quite high). It is the funniest thing ever! Hmmm, I think that's it for animals so far, except of course for the elephant I ride to work and giraffe that tucks me into bed at night, but that goes without saying ;)
View photos @: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2158772&l=0a815&id=13613119
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