Johan one of longer serving guides has just got back from a Cape To Victoria Falls CVa21 and had an amazing group that just wanted to swim at every given chance. He has this to share. On my last tour we had some really good weather, and if you talk about good weather in Africa you talk about sunny blue skies...but during this time especially summer, the heat can really pick up during the hot hours of the day.

 

 

I was lucky enough to have some clients with real adventure spirits in them, from the start of the tour we were already taking a shower under the cold Cederberg waterfalls, and then in the Orange River we had another swim in the majestic river that forms the border between SA and Namibia. And so it continued over the next few weeks in the Namibian heat, if we didn’t use a pool, we used the natural rivers and springs to cool down.

 

 

We then entered Botswana and I knew swimming will become more difficult, but our local Tswana guides took us to one of the swimming spots in the Delta where we relaxed and while cooling down in water, had an elephant grazing 200m away with Hippos calling in the background.  All of this with professional guides having the safety of the people as their first priority.

So after enjoying all of this luxury swimming spots my clients had one more demand, they wanted to take a swim in the Zambezi, I then explained that it will be too dangerous to just jump into the river at any given spot because of 5m crocs sharing the water...the only change we had to do it was to go and do the rafting in the gorges of the river where the current flows to strong for crocs.

 

 

So at the end of the tour we went rafting, our raft capsized twice and that gave everybody the great Zambezi experience they wanted. In general it was a great, adventure filled safari...or should i say swimming safari.