This is Zimbabwe

Jon and I (Dan) have been in Zimbabwe for the last two weeks, away from normal internet communications and have thus neglected our task of sharing this journey with others that might like to see what is happening. This country is an amazing place. As soon as you cross the boarder from South Africa the atmosphere, the landscape and the people change immediately. In fact this country seems to be in a constant state of change. Every time that I return here things have changed. This time the situation is not good to say the least (if you have been keeping up with news reports on the situation in Zim then you will know). I will spare you the details for now as some information may not be appropriate for distribution at the moment. Accept to say that there is a massive Cholera outbreak within the country right now and many people have been affected, with over three hundred dead already. Please keep the people of Zimbabwe in your thoughts and prayers. 

As there is not much time to tell stories right now, I will instead try and give you a quick summary to catch you up to speed:

We survived our first real Chicken Bus experience, from Jo'burg to Chiredzi- 16 hours long.

We have played with Elephants, some of whom were a bit frisky but very cute 

We've watched amazing Zimbabwean sunsets

We've gone camping in the bush with friends

Jon goes running with the Giraffe in the morning, just to get ready for the day

Most most artistic picture of the week goes to Jon, with this amazing pic (one of my personal favorites)

And just this morning we were hanging with the King of the Jungle, about 20 feet away sitting in the back of an open truck.