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| Our house boat on Lake Kariba |
The drive was not all what I expected it to be, I expected a smooth ride that I could possibly sleep or relax on. Instead, I found myself being tossed around quite a bit as it felt like we were driving in a school bus on a back country dirt road. I nearly threw up my breakfast on a couple of occasions. The ride was so bumpy that I struggled to take a sip of water from my water bottle without dumping it all over myself. It took me about three hours or so to get adjusted to the rough ride. After about 7 or 8 hours of driving, we arrived at Lake Kariba, which is the biggest manmade lake in Africa. We were told that we would be staying on a house boat for the next three days, which seemed a lot better than camping. The first night on the boat we had dinner and then sat around playing drinking games, one in particular is similar to the drinking game we play in the U.S. called Kings, except our new friends call it 4 Kings and use different rules. Our tour leader and many others from the group quit drinking and went to their rooms to sleep while Daniel, myself and a couple of others stayed up late talking and drinking more. The boat was docked for the night and I had the brilliant idea that it would be fun to jump in for a little late night swim, not thinking anything of it as it was just a lake.
I jumped in first and then Daniel followed soon after. The water was nice and refreshing, but our swim was soon interrupted by our tour leader who ran out of his room in a hurry with just his underwear on to yell at us in a panic that the Lake was infested with Hippos and Crocks. We scurried out of the water as soon as possible and got back on the boat and received a nice lecture from the tour leader, Tito, in the morning about not jumping into the lake anymore. The second night on the boat we had a crazy costume party. Daniel and I did dress up and hung out with the group for a while but we didn’t get as drunk as the rest of them, as we decided it would be in our best judgment to be more cautious for the rest of the trip. The next day we relaxed and got some sun and saw a couple of elephants, which was so amazing. For our final night, everyone was so exhausted that we went to bed early to prepare for another long drive to the Zambian border to a town called Livingstone.
I jumped in first and then Daniel followed soon after. The water was nice and refreshing, but our swim was soon interrupted by our tour leader who ran out of his room in a hurry with just his underwear on to yell at us in a panic that the Lake was infested with Hippos and Crocks. We scurried out of the water as soon as possible and got back on the boat and received a nice lecture from the tour leader, Tito, in the morning about not jumping into the lake anymore. The second night on the boat we had a crazy costume party. Daniel and I did dress up and hung out with the group for a while but we didn’t get as drunk as the rest of them, as we decided it would be in our best judgment to be more cautious for the rest of the trip. The next day we relaxed and got some sun and saw a couple of elephants, which was so amazing. For our final night, everyone was so exhausted that we went to bed early to prepare for another long drive to the Zambian border to a town called Livingstone. 
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