Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 09:56:00 PST

Well we haven´t written since Malawi - v. slack sorry.

What have we done since then....

ZIMBABWE
- hiking in the Eastern Highlands (Chimanimani) - swimming under
waterfalls, sleeping in caves
- horseriding in Shagse Game Reserve - Rich´s first time on a horse, not
a pretty sight
- Ate our first steak in Africa (at least the first one that tasted like
a steak!

ZAMBIA
- spent a week sick in bed (v. dull, v. hot)
- swam in the rock pool on the top of Victoria Falls (got to see it to
believe it, it´s less than a metre away from the edge)

NAMIBIA
- Met up with (tamara´s) mummy (she´s a game old bird)
- lots of game viewing (8 rhino at one time, no cats, R got v. bored of
mummy and I watching birds)
- sand dunes (stunning - v.red sand, v. black shadows - pictures we took
look crap)
- sand boarding - head first - (mummy is king of the dunes - the fastest
and most stylie by miles)
- seal colony (it was pupping season - afterbirths and dead pups
everywhere, it stank, why we went I don´t know)

BOTSWANA
- hired a flash 4x4 - it steered like a tank and wouldn´t go over 100kph
(t tried to crash it into trees, flood it in fords, sink it in sand)
- lots of game viewing again (about 2 million elephants, cats at last)
- great boat trip in Okavango Delta (great because free)
- picked up a hitch hiker (not a bad chap took him 800km)

SOUTH AFRICA
- Went up table mountain (by cable car or course)
- Walked cape to cape (Point to Good Hope - about 500m but it sounds
impressive)
- Went on a wine tour (thinly disguised piss up) - Hi Meno
- Drank a few beers (seems to be what´s done in RSA- personally I blame
Mike)
- Did the Garden Route - East Coast etc (boring boring boring - it´s
like Torquay with sun - except it rained when we went)
- black water tubing(the most undignified sport - you stick your bum in
a tyre tube and float down river getting your bum stuck on rocks the
whole way)
- picked up 3 hitchers (Big mistake, took them 20km before figuring out
how to ditch em)
- Zululand engagement party, wedding, witchdoctor ceremony (lots of bare
breasted women, R loved it)

And that´s us out of Africa. Currently in Buenos Aires planning South
America. Going to see a Bocca Juniors game tomorrow, last of the
season. It´s the tango festival here at the moment, good timing.

Don´t know what email access will be like from out here, but if we´re
not in touch before, Happy Christmas everyone. Good luck and hope to
see you in 1999.

Rich and tams