A quick last goodbye

8am

It is so difficult leaving here....Ian asked me last night why I've gone so quiet like I'm concerned about something...I'm not, I just hate having to go back to the city, my heart is here and wants to stay here.

He makes me a deal that we won't rush home tomorrow, we can go to horseshoe bend in Babwata National Park first, this thought gives me enough energy to pack early and get ready for the drive home.

Seeing as we were stuck most of the day before yesterday and could not switch the car off due to the exhaust being submerged it ran for 13 hours on idle. We get in the car and we've got a range of 1km left, we need to go atleast 70km to the closest filling station.

By some miracle we make it to the neighbor 15km away and get some fuel. Babwata here we come!

12pm

It's 38 degrees and I know we won't find much at horseshoe, it's hot and the animals will look for shelter. We find 100's of breeding elephant herds on our way though, all resting in the midday heat....small herds like these are on the left and right of the road scattered for what feels like kilometers...

We arrive at horseshoe, as suspected we do not find anything but just seeing this magnificent spot again is enough, on a good day you can encounter up to 2000 elephants here in the afternoon...

We arrive at a Caprivi roadblock on our way out of the park...

We decided to wait it our until a mom with a very small calf starts making her presence clear and tell us to get out of here. We respond at the 1st display sign and slowly move past...mutual respect is the key to ethical guiding.

We're out of the park and back on the tar road enruite to Rundu, we'll stay over there....

It's 39degrees now....

Zambezi Region...we'll be back soon.