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Africa 2006

Links to our travel agent and the places that we stayed:

Notes:
I got a new toy before this vacation – a Nikon D200 digital camera. It is my first digital camera, and I spent a few weeks before the trip shooting almost daily to get up to speed on how to use all the settings (OK, I didn't learn them all - just the ones that I needed for shooting on safari). I'm really happy with the results and love being able to review the images later without waiting for them to be developed.

We visited southern Africa this year. It is probably one of the best vacations that we have ever taken! The land reminded us a lot of Arizona and it felt a lot like a second home. Some of the plants and animals were different from anything that we have ever seen before, but the overall look and feel of the land — the sandy soil, scrub landscape, basalt canyons — were very similar to the Prescott area of Arizona. We traveled from South Africa to Zambia (Victoria Falls) and then on to Botswana. We started in very dry desert and moved through lands with more water, ending up in the Okavango Delta with lots of water and vivid green plant life. I've organized the site based on our travel calendar. Some days have several pages to keep the pages from running on too long. I hope you enjoy the information and the photos. Scott shot some awesome video. We took the best clips and added them to the web site as QuickTime video. Now you can see the action, hear the lions roaring, and watch the wild dogs fighting a hyena. FREE Quicktime player downloads: Player for Windows and the player for MAC.
July 1	Washington DC
July 2	Johannesburg
July 3	Nelspruit, Elephant Plains Evening Drive
July 4	Elephant Plains Morning Drive Camp Bush Walk and Evening Drive
July 5	Elephant Plains Morning Drive Evening Drive
July 6	Elephant Plains Morning Drive Livingstone, Zambia Victoria Falls
July 7	Victoria Falls River Tour of the Zambezi
July 8	Victoria Falls Jet boating Railroad and Livingstone Museum
July 9	Duma Tau, Botswana Evening Drive
July 10	Duma Tau Morning Drive More Morning Drive and Camp Evening Drive
July 11	Duma Tau, Morning Drive Little Vumbura, Evening Drive
July 12	Little Vumbura Morning Drive and Visit with Elephant in Camp Evening Drive
July 13	Little Vumbura Morning Drive & Bush Walk Evening Boat Ride
July 14	Little Vumbura Day-long Drive with Lunch
July 15	Little Vumbura Morning Drive
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