So I’ve been yapping about this Acacia Africa tour for…20+ blogs now, and I’m safely deposited at my friend’s place in the DRC,and I’ve had a bit of time to reflect on my experience. It all started so innocently, with a google search about “best way to get to Victoria Falls from cape town”– I […]
Waking up on “Day 20” — aka Day 0 of “No More Acacia Africa” was so surreal. Jane had a mondo headache, I had fallen asleep in my dress from the night before, and we were HUNGRY. Classic, really. We had already packed up our bags the day before, and most of the squad had […]
Remember that day a few weeks back when the Perfect Ten was in Swakopmund and we went sandboarding and skydiving and it was this insane, expensive, adrenaline-filled, epic day? Well, today was crazier. Day 19 started with our final breakfast as Acacia-ers at 6am, and then we were headed to our activity pickup in the […]
This one time, nine of us took helicopter rides over the Okavango Delta…
Waking up on day 18 was bittersweet because for many of us, it was our last full day as Mara’s passengers…. At Victoria Falls, over half of the Perfect 10 Plus Three were splitting up… Here’s where we would all be dispersing to: Lena, Johanna & Jane: HOME Dara: DRC Kitty & Silia: To Joberg […]
Let’s talk about the absolutely UNFILTERED JOY that accompanies the news “we have a short drive today” when you’re on an Acacia tour. It is AMAZING. Granted, when you sign up for an overland tour, you’re WELL AWARE that there is going to be a ton of driving. That’s just kind of a given when […]
I highly recommend starting your day with a 1.5 hour mokoro ride through the Okavango Delta, which of course is how we rolled on day 16. The ride back was incredibly peaceful in the early morning sunlight and Jane and I took some excellent photos, including some of an adorable little frog that decided to […]
This might be one of my absolute favorite days of the entire tour so far… On day 15 we got up hella early (I really should stop saying that, since “hella early” is basically normal on Desert Tracker…) and headed to the mokoro station to head to… THE OKAVANGO DELTA Mara, our safari truck, couldn’t […]
Day 13 For some reason, I get really excited about border crossing days. I don’t know if it’s because I really like getting the new stamps, or because I’ve never really done land crossings before, or what… but I woke up super excited (and super early, since I needed to use the Urban Camp WiFi […]
So I mentioned that in Swakopmund on day 8 we picked up three newbies to the tour, Lena, Johanna and Kris… I didn’t say much else since, well, I didn’t really know much else, but now I do so I figured I’d give you a little insight into The Perfect Ten’s “Plus Three”: The Germans […]
