Holidays on safari are nor for those who want to sleep. The first leg of our Zambian trip was to s Luangwa National Park. It was amazing. It’s green season (so called because the foliage makes it difficult to see the wildlife) so we weren’t expecting to see much, just looking forward to watching any wildlife that came our way. We arrived at the park after an epic 9 hour drive and decided to go for a game drive. We set off at a cracking pace because the word was that there were some lions finishing off a buffalo. We made it and watched a pride of lions lounging around after their festive meal.
The park is on a different scale to those in Malawi; we’d seen elephants, giraffe and zebra as well as lots of different antelope in Malawi but not all in one place and no big cats. We saw lions on a second occasion but not within photographing distance and the kids couldn’t see them. We were hoping to see leopards and our eldest will tell you that while on a grow up night drive I saw the back legs and tail of something that might have been a leopard!
The park is so huge the wildlife sort of spill out into the areas around it, this must make daily life for the local people quite hard elephants could wreck crops and houses. They also hate bicycles so if you meet an elephant while cycling you should always dismount.
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