Great morning for flying. No clouds in the sky and nice and sunny. We departed at 9 AM and set course to the south. A 2 hour flight to Bulowayo to clear customs & immigrations followed by an hour to the Mashatu camp. We thought it was great weather for flying, but it was very turbulent during the entire flight. The aircraft went up and down as much as 400 feet at times. After paying a hefty USD 230 to clear both aircraft out of Zimbabwe we continued to Botswana. The Mashatu camp is truly spectacular. The rooms are excellent and so is the food. We went for a late afternoon game drive and finally saw the big cats we were hoping to see. We saw leopard, lions, lionesses and lion cubs. There was a lot happening here in this park. We also had some free entertainment by a troop of baboons trying to chase a leopard away and a flock of guinea fowls (looks like a pheasant) trying to pass 2 lions laying on the sand sleeping. It was very amusing to see them run past the lions and we were wondering how they choose the first one to go from amongst the group of them. It was extremely funny to see. We were all in bed before 10 PM. the pilots especially were dead tired after a long 3 hour battle in the turbulent air.
Nice pose :-)
Father asleep
Kids awake
Mother asleep
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