Travellers Photo Gallery

51. A lucky chance sighting of the Honey eater's mating display.

52. Victoria Falls, one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. Rainbows form in the spray that rises from the narrow 1.7km long chasm.

A BIG THANK YOU to all our safari crew for a most spectacular safari experience. It was truly AWESOME!

49. Brenda, alias "Yankee Doodle Dandy" putting on a fine performance at our end of trip concert.

50. Performance Judge Dudley...... could he spot the talent!

47. Molly, a huge White Rhino. Livingstone Walking Safari

48. Elephants snorkelling their way across the Chobe River.

45. We watch them and they watch us. The shy giraffes are the world's tallest animals, reaching up to 17 feet.

46. Hippos running to the water, for their size they can put on an impressive turn of speed. Thank goodness they ran around us!

43. Our fantastic guides, Sven and GP.

44. I'm watching you....... crocodile eye, Chobe River

41. Cape Buffalo, what amazing head gear.

42. Sunset at the waterhole, Chobe National Park

39. Wildebeest, fast running natives of the African Savanna. Commonly known as a "gnu"

40. As an evasive measure a startled Springbok will "pronk" or bounce wildly. Margaret makes a fine imitation.

37. Oryx are well adapted to the arid conditions of the Etosha Pan and can survive for days even weeks without drinking water.

38. Kudu and Springbok visit the waterhole.

35. Fay and Mick, feeding the baby elephant at the Elephant Wallow, near Vic Falls.

36. Sisters, Marianne and Brenda setting up camp.

33. Elephants on the Chobe river waterfront.

34. Our guys, Bruce, Mick, Mel, Alan and Ian - are they really discussing the termite mound or is it the footie results?

31. Our sighting of the lion cubs was a highlight - ignoring us completely they played, suckled and got up to mischief, just like little children.

32. Pat and Terry, leading us in our campfire entertainments.

29. Sally and Rosemarie help themselves to a cuppa.

30. In the wilderness hot water bush showers did the trick.

27. Normally the most secretive and elusive of the large carnivores our Leopards were in no hurry to move on.

28. A Hyena making a meal of an elephant kill, after the lions have had their fill. ( Savuti).

25. Don't mind us, we'll just wait for you to amble past.

26. We saw three magnificent male lions close up this morning, the rich resonance of their roaring was unforgettable.Chilling or thrilling I'm not quite sure.

23. Hey mum...... wait !

24. Happy Birthday Ian. Nolene had secretly carried a beautifully iced fruit cake from NZ for the occasion. Ian had thought her bag rather heavy but had put it down to feminine essentials. Was he surprised!

21. The baby zebras were so cute, Fay couldn't resist calling them Jack and Ben (after her twin grand children)

22. Lilac breasted Roller - the National Bird of Botswana, 14 colours and so hard to capture on film.

19. Steph and Ian being poled along the narrow channels of the Okavango Delta, the largest inland Delta on Earth. (Botswana)

20. Lions Galore. We saw lions of all shapes and sizes, 57 in total.

17. Janet making friends with the warthog family that roamed our camp in Namutoni (Etosha),

18. Waiting for dinner, Ngepi Camp on the banks of the Okavango River. All our camp meals were prepared over open fires in traditional safari style. Our guides GP and Sven were great cooks!

15. The top of our safari trucks rolled back to alllow great viewing - Denise, Graeme and Dudley checking out the scene.

16. Drinking at the water hole is a real challenge for the lanky giraffes, they need to strike such an ungainly pose to get their head to the water.

13. The waterhole at Okaukuejo Camp (Etosha) is floodlite at night providing close up viewing 24 hours a day. Most of us spent every spare minute there anxious not to miss a moment of the changing scene.

14. The elephants were a great hit, the babies charmed us.

11. Giraffes in the sunset - Etosha National Park

12. After the early morning game viewing Alan, Janet and Marianne enjoy a hearty brunch (Etosha)

9. Margaret and Steph helping to prepare our picnic lunch.

10.We always gave way at Zebra Crossings, (Etosha National Park, Namibia)

7. Rockhound Alan in his element at the Petrified Forest, Namibia. 250 million year ago at the end of the Ice Age huge floods washed these massive logs south from Central Africa.

8. Twyfelfontein is one of Africa's richest rock art sites with approx 2,000 bushman petroglyphs (rock engravings) Most images are of animals.

6. What an experience! Denise decided to see the Namib Desert from 10,000ft up! She did a Tandem Skydive with Ground Rush Adventures in Swakopmund.

5. Modesa, the tribal residential area of Swakopmund. The children were intrigued with our digital cameras and loved viewing the pics. Accompanied by a couple of village boys we were welcomed into many homes, visited the kindergarten and chatted with Lena, an 80 year old local elder of the Damara tribe. For lunch we sampled traditional Namibian fare -beans, wild spinach and moepani bugs!

4. While in Swakopmund Mick went shark fishing on the wild west African Coast - a very successful day, a very happy Mick!

3. Kevin resting on a lone tree stump in Hiddenvlei, a dried up lake bed in the sundunes. The knarled old stump is recorded as having died 900 years ago.

2. Watching the sunrise from the summit of Dune 45, part of the Namib Desert's vast system of dunes. It had been a hard slog to the top but the run down the 45 degree slopes brought out the "kid" in us all.

1. We're off on Safari! Leaving Windhoek we travel south into the Namib-Naukluft Desert, one of the oldest deserts in the world.