In November 1999, Ki, and I went on our honeymoon;a tour of Africa. The first leg of out tour was a Safari through Botswana. Botswana is a country in Southern Africa. We travelled from Maun, through the Okavango Delta, the Moremi Game Reserve, Chobe National Park, and ended our Safari at Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. Here's a map showing where we went.

It was a great trip, run by Karibu Safaris. On our trip, we saw some great wildlife, and below you can see some of it. (Click on any of the pictures to see a higher resolution image)

We saw a lot of lions. As you can see by the size of his belly, they are all pretty well fed. 

Kim's eagle eyes managed to spot a leopard in the long grass. We watched him stalk an impala for about 20 minutes. Unfortunately, the impala caught the leopards scent, and we weren't able to see a kill.

We did, however, come across a cheetah mother and her three cubs with a kill. Cheetahs only eat fresh meat, and so this kill must have happened within an hour prior to us arriving.

This is a pregnant lioness who was part of a pride. In the background you can see one of the males.

This is a wild dog. Wild dogs have been devastated in Africa by rabies. They live in packs of up to 40. They are extremely efficient hunters, killing 70% of the prey they go after. They do this by running their prey to exhaustion, as the dogs are able to run relentlessly.

We'd camped overnight, and noticed a faint foul odour in the morning. After a short search (in our tour 4wd), we found this dead elephant about 200m from our camp, with a group of 15 lionesses camped around him. It reeked. The elephant would have died of old age, and the lionesses would have scavenged the meat. They didn't seem to mind the smell.

There were lots of elephants (I mean LOTS) in the reserves we visited. They were starting to have quite an effect on the trees and other fauna. They tended to like to push trees over.

We didn't get to see many of the local people, as most of the time we were camping out in the middle of nowhere. When we were in Victoria Falls, an enterprising youngster (probably 9 years old) came up to us, trying to sell us an icy-pole.
"Where are you from", he asked.
"Australia", came our reply.
"I know Australia", he stated, "Skippy the bush kangaroo, Prime Minister is John Howard, before that, Paul Keating, before that, Bob Hawke, before that, Malcolm Fraser, and before that Gough Whitlam. The capital is Canberra. Other cities are Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth. Yeah, I know Australia! How's it going, mate! Want to buy an icy-pole?"
With this, the young man proved himself to be more knowledgeable on Australia than 99% of Americans. It also seemed quite cute until you walked 20 metres down the road and another kid did exactly the same thing (and I mean exactly, word for word).

Our safari was fantastic, and I can recommend travelling to Africa if you get the chance.