A place for me...

One thing about Namibia is the meat. they eat meat. when you're having a couple of beers other places in the world, there is probably a bowl of chips on the table. Not here. Here they pass around plates with meat in stead. grilled meat, dried meat, cooked... I like it very much! (what do you reckon, Kristine?! Never told me about this before i went down here..) At the shop Mari gets some chocolate (ok, sometimes me too) and I get biltong (dried meat)... (they told me that I ate donkey thing the other night...)

Like when we were at the king, we got meat. a couple of kgs! this friday it was graduation, so we went to someone who had grilled a goat. very nice, too spicy for me though.

They for sure knows how to make a good steak here too... oh, when i get to Windhoek... i'm gonna eat zebra, kudu, ostrich (again), crocodile... :)

So I don't learn the Africans to swear or anything, just to say " Ej ete kjöt" (I eat meat).

I didn't climb to the top of the food chain to become a vegetarian!!

Easter in Zambia

After some changes in the plan we ended up with a whole week in Livingstone, Zambia. That was so relaxing and fun!!
Wish I had gone to ALL the markets, but guess i'm already in a lot of trouble getting everything back. but atleast i'm so much better at bargaining!! :)

Aussie Aussie Aussie- oy oy oy!!
As always Aussies are a lot of fun! If it hadnt been for them, we would have done nothing for the first 4 days. But maybe I would remember everything... They did a lot of Africa in four weeks, I just needed to have a relaxing easter holiday. At least for a few days, we could not use all the fun before the Malawi-girls arrived!

On the pic: Jon, Julia (Germany), Anette (Norway), Chris, Donnie and Ben. Ofcourse they were surfers. And life savers at Bondi... Haha, not the

last. Big pool at Jollyboys, the backpacker. Perfect for surfing. A small pond for the big boys.

The boys convinced us to join them on the Gorge Swing, and it was terrifying. (But nothing compared to what comes later) Jumping off cliffs hasn't really been my thing, but I loved it! (Screaming is a part of it!! and i'm good at it!) After 53 metres of free fall you just swing in the Gorge, that's a feeling of peace!! I jumped alone at first, but I prefer tandem. Because then you HAVE to jump. but I dont mind the company when swinging in the Gorge either... great feeling!!!

Bungee in Victoria Falls!!!

Since Mattis and Morten were here, we've talked about bungee jumping in Vic Falls. Mari and Rebecca were termined to do it, I was like.. we'll see. After the Gorge Swinge I thought that I couldnt be bothered, but when standing on the brigde- butterflies in my belly and I knew I had to do it!! Was very happy that I go to jump with Anne.. she had even done it once before. Not too nervous before- like Mari and Rebecca or Anette, but when I was standing on the platform.. SCARY!!!! Really happy that i did it, and i felt like a very brave easter bunny. Dunno if I'll do it again (heroy-brua, anyone?!!)Anette, cape town?! hehe... didn't enjoy being upside down too much though... and had to climb back up on the bridge and my legs were shaky. The Falls are amazing, soo beautiful!! Lots of water.. Christine adn I brought a wash cloth (we're funny), and we all got soaked. should've brought some shampoo, cause the backpacker was having a lot of problems with the electricity. Whenever it was gone (which was every single day the week we were there) the showers didn't work. This is the brigde we were jumping from.

we would've loved to raft there too, but there was too much water in Zambezi. Njami njami, the river god and god of the Falls, was kind to me.

Katima Mulilo and Botswana

Katima Mulilo in Caprivi
Now we're on our 2 weeks travel, and the first stop was in Katima Mulilo in the north east arm of Namibia. There we stayed in the hostel with the students, we even took their beds!! this was very uncomfortable at first, but it ended up as such a great week!! Didnt go to too many lessons though, enough!! we learned that a mountain is a rock, and that the reason for not drinking the water straight out of Zambezi is because they throw things in it. for example dogs!!

we did a sunset cruise on Zambezi, but I didnt see any dogs. Instead I saw a lot of hippos!!! I love them!!!! even though they are said to be one of the most dangerous animals in Africa... The cruise was really nice and relaxing, got couple of beers and sat on the roof.. Didnt see any crocodiles though..

Botswana
More hippos were to be seen in Chobe Nationalpark in Botswana, where we went for one day. But even more amazing was the elephants!!!! they were so many, everywhere and the babies are gorgeous! An elephant with the trunk (the slurp, hehe..) up is supposed to bring good luck. there was also plenty of buffalos (scary animals!!), impalas and things like that, some giraffes. Unfortunately we didnt got to see the lions.
we were taken there by some teachers and students at Caprivi College.

Our good friend Bjorn borrowed us a very rare baby dwarf python...