Friday, July 26, 2013 – Hwange, Zimbabwe
We saw zebras, elephants, gnus, warthogs, sables, and francolins. We saw a sausage tree. Douglas told us that the fruit of a sausage tree should be fresh when it is rubbed on a skin cancer to make it go away.


zebras, with gnus behind
no gnus is bad gnus?

termite mound

ordeal tree

female and calf elephant

Douglas shows us an elephant skull

elephant bones

elephant upper jaw bone
Douglas shows us how to build an elephant-bone toilet -- he puts an upper jaw upside down on a short stack of vertebrae


elephant pelvis bone

Douglas sits on his new throne --
it would be more comfy with an
animal skin placed across it

elephant pelvis bone balanced on a short stack of vertebrae, with ribs placed over the birth canal to form a seat

new

sables

sables

young hornbill?

yellow-billed hornbills

zebras

what bird?

the communal "loo with a view" of the camp

kudu

our little Cessna

the interior of the Cessna, with pilot Fungai

dried river and a parallel road

many dried ponds and salt pans

Martha with pilot Fungai

map of Victoria Falls showing our Rainbow Hotel

we're back at the Victoria Falls airport