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On friday evening we arrived at the Gwabi Lodge in Chirundu, ready for our canoe trip!! But when we explained the owner what our plans were, he looked at us like we were crazy!! He’d never done such a huge trip!! He would look into it and let us know the next day. Full expectations we went to the owner the next morning, to hear about our trip!! It was possible, but it came with a big prize tag… 3500€ we kindly told him that was a little bit above our budget! He gave us 2 other options: the standard canoe trip of 2 days or we could leave that day with a boat that was going to pick up a group of canoers who just finished their 2 day trip. We took the last option… the cheapest! We took our stuff and left on the boat! The trip was about 70km, cheapest safari ever!!! We saw lots of wildlife (hippo’s, elephants and crocodiles)!! Unbelievable!!! We sailed to a small island in the Zambezi river, were we met with the group of canoers! To our surprise we saw there were a lot of elephants and hippo’s on the island!! After dinner and a nice evening/night at the campfire, we went to bed. Only to see that there were standing elephants at 5 meters of my tent… I didn’t sleep that well! Back at the Gwabi Lodge the next day, we had to discuss how we were going to go from there to Mozambique! Because our planned canoe trip went down the drain, we had to find another way to travel! Finally we decided to go through Malawi to get to Mozambique! Maxime and Casper went there 2 years ago and visited the southern part… so now we were going to do the northern part. Extra country on my list!!! The owner of the Gwabi lodge was so kind, that he fixed a free ride for the first part our journey!! And of we go again!!!
13-08-2013, 00:00
Geschreven door Gerrit 
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