Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe (Oct. 16, 1998)
Kipling's on Lake Kariba was a pleasant surprise -- it is a very posh place,
the people who run the place are very nice, the other guests were interesting
people, and you can decide for yourself if the scenery was good.
Lake Kariba is a great place to observe and photograph wildlife, since boats don't seem
to scare most of the animals the same way a car does. In fact, all of the pictures
below were taken from a boat in one afternoon, including the two sunset pictures.
Buffalo
Darter
Elephant
A Gorgeous End of the Day on Lake Kariba
Well, not quite all the pictures -- Lake Kariba National Park serves as
a rhino orphanage, with 4 baby rhinos in the park. They're kept penned up
at night until they get 3 years old, which is how long they'd stay under
their parents' protection. The babies are pretty tame and used to people now
but the guide said they get ornery towards humans in short order after they're
released. The best part for me was that I got to touch this rhino -- the
skin is pretty rough, but it's smooth in the flap of skin where the leg
joins the body.
After one wonderful day there, I left for Victoria Falls. Generally, I don't
want to return to places I've been, since I figure there are more new places
to see, but one day wasn't nearly enough.
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Tom Loos