We got up between 5 and 6 am every day, in order to do the trekking during the relatively cool morning hours. In the afternoon (with temperatures around 34° C (94° F) we would relax in some shadowy place.
Camping in Chizarira National Park
The last week we made a guided foot safari through the Chizarira National Park. Our group consisted of 6 tourists, 4 porters, a scout and a guide.
The nice thing about a foot safari is that you're actually in the nature, and you see lots of interesting things while walking, like animal droppings, animal remains etc.
The disadvantage is that on one hand the prey animals consider you as a possible predator and stay away from you. On the other hand the predators consider you as a possible prey and will not show themselves to you while observing you. (If you're driving around in a car, like we did in the other parks, the smell of the car overcomes your human smell and the animals don't consider you as prey or predator). On a foot safari definitely applies the rule that you see only 10% of what sees you. So we saw relatively few animals.
We got up between 5 and 6 am every day, in order to do the trekking during the relatively cool morning hours. In the afternoon (with temperatures around 34°
C (94°
F) we would relax in some shadowy place.
This is the kind of spots we camped at. The blue tarp on the ground was our dinner table:
This is Jerry taking a break:
