I don’t want to die tonight…

Posted in Travel by Dom on August 1st, 2007

So got back from Liwonde. It was pretty awesome. Saw a whole lot of sweet animals. The place we stayed had a porch that overlooked a lagoon on the Shire river and we could just sit there and see hippos and crocs and all kinds of birds and warthogs and lizards and all that stuff just go trotting by, drinking, and trying to eat other. Real sweet. Went on a couple safari drives saw some elephant too, just not really by the room. Ran up on three coming back from dinner the last night though, that was a bit scary, but still awesome. And then walking back to the room that same night there was a hippo and it’s kid chillin like 30 yards away staring us down. Went into the rino sanctuary and almost might have seen one. We scared something big gray and fast, but I just heard it two others saw the thing move. Thats were we also saw the water buffalo and all the different kinds of antelope. Saw so many impala we just stopped stopping to see them, it was like “Oh, impala…” Went on two night drives too, the driver was pretty good at spotting stuff. One time he stopped so we could look at this thumb sized chameleon he spotted, in the dark, at night under a moving spotlight while driving. We then spent like 20 minutes trying to figure out where he saw this thing. All in all though it was real awesome. There was a dead hippo too, just floating down the river like some evil carnival boat ride, pretty disgusting. It just looked fake. We were told by the others who saw it the day before that crocs were attacking it but it’s skin was still too tough. Oh yeah, saw a ton of monkeys and baboons too. Like all over the place, up in the room and at dinner trying to steal our stuff. Good times, good times. I’ll try to get some pictures up eventually…I think we all have seen how this will probably go though. Sorry.