"CHECK THE WIND!" and other Zimbabwe Off The Beaten Path Tips

Zimbabwe with a guide named:CRAIG VAN ZYL. He will get you close and safe. We
went off the beaten path alright!! We 're getting
ready to swing around a huge elephant!! The
elephant with trunk up the tree. He mocked
charged us 2x's!! Craig stood in front of him
both times. We all stood our ground:Really
froze in fear!! But Craig did his thing and the elephant walked off calmly! We had other
elephants starting to come around, time to
walk back!!
Chizarira, very wild looking! Never know what
you will bump into. We came close to another
elephant. He was looking right at us. Walked
off! Even Buffalo, can be very mean!! A herd
near where we had to wait for our plane. We sat and watched back. The Buffalo, just peeking his head up!! Many off the BEATEN PATH in ZIMBABWE!

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Zimbabwe, HWANGE-PARK! In the bush there are no paths!! You make your own.
Get stuck by a THORN-BUSH along the way!
Run into Elephant! Great to get close on foot!!
One of my favorite animals: SABLE!! Just beautiful! The horns, some reached the
backs they are so long!

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That 7 mile hike, it was hot. Having a hard time finding wildlife! We went to another water
source! As you can see again. Not much there. There was suposed to be a CROC,
but no luck. Everything is so dry now. Just keep walking and BEATING THAT PATH!
Thats the fun of it. You never know!!

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It's great hiking in the CHIZARIRA BUSH! The
grass is tall, thick bush. Never know what will
show up! You may follow a path or make one!
At last some ELEPHANTS! But, one we saw
looked like he was heading right at us! But,
because most of the elephants here remember the POACHING, did had to!! He just turned slowly and walked off! We have this park all to ourselfs!!

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It was nice to see some WATER-BUCKS
at the air-strip! A real treat!! A big BULL and
his MATES!!

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Not many places where you can try to get close to CAPE-BUFFALO and wait for your
plane at the same time!! Just park your ROVER, and GET IN THAT BUSH!!!!!
Our plane just went over. Time to go to:
MATUSADONA PARK!!

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This BIG-GUY needs his own T-LOG! HE WILL GET IT! This exciting chapter on this safari and our first game walk in MATUSADONA PARK. We had this!! I was the
only one of 5 who took any pics of this BULL!
GOOD STUFF!!!!!
10/1999

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Big Old Chubby BUFFALO! All alone, and
thats not a good thing. If he doesn't hook
up with a few buddies. The LIONS will have
a good meal.

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Our last full day in HWANGE PARK. How
could anyone guess we would find a lone
HIPPO sleeping in this water hole.
Craig had parked the truck hardly 10ft away.
He took a bottle, and lightly tapped it
under the water. Craig must have know he was in a DEEP-SLEEP! The HIPPO never moved.

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Out of nowhere these IMPALA ran right in front
of us. Craig was going slow anyway. We were
watching the sun go down. Getting ready to
stop and have our gin n tonics!

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