It is quite the luxury to come to the Chobi Safari Lodge after camping in the bush. Camping here is only 85 Pula a person (about 8 bucks) and we have access to the swimming pool and Internet (when it’s working). The cost of eating and having a drink is higher, but the service is so excellent and always accompanied by an authentic smile. As you can see by the cocktail menu I think it is about the only restaurant I know where you can ask the waitress for a blowjob without incurring the possibility of getting a rap alongside the head.
We continue to take most our meals at camp preferring to cook over the brai and enjoying the clean flame of mopani and iron wood, which is much heavier than oak. The campsites are very neat, in part due to the extremely efficient warthogs who constantly scour the grounds for tree droppings that regularly hail down from the blue- balled monkeys cavorting and racing around in the canopy.
It’s good to have a few days here to do the laundry, organize the rig, and do a few camp repairs. I anticipated having more time to write stuff, read (haven’t even cracked my book), and just hang but the days have been so incredibly full that after good conversation and a couple glasses of Pinotage sleep comes easy and deep.
We opted to to go into Zimbabwe and Victoria Falls from here by taxi rather than hassle with taking the vehicles. The next day some of us did a river cruise. Char, our guide was very informative and steered us much closer to crocs and hippos than I would have ventured. The hippo who charged us could easily have overturned our small craft. I enjoyed seeing Chay’s sly smile as he watched the reaction of the screaming occupants after having just explained the territorial nature of the hippo.  

Camp Vac