The main thing I wanted to see during the Costa Rica stop of my Panama Canal Cruise was animals & fun birds. Unfortunately due to my knees and back, all the more adventurous excursions like hiking in the Cloud Forest were out. Also, there was that whole snake thing. So…
Japan popularized the animal cafe so I was hoping we’d get to visit one while we were there. Unfortunately, at many, the animals aren’t treated well so I wasn’t sure if I’d find one that I could feel OK about visiting. And then I found an otter cafe in Kyoto! …
On our first full day in Victoria Falls, we decided to do a day trip to Chobe National Park in Botswana. The Botswana border is about an hour from Victoria Falls and the park is about 25 minutes past that. Even though we’d just wrapped up 6 days in Kruger,…
After our amazing first day in Kruger, we still had 4 more full days in the park plus the morning of leaving the park. And what an incredible few days those turned out to be as well. The morning of day 2, I woke at the crack of dawn and…