First meal

Having now spent our first night in South Africa, we wake to the roar of engines, not lions. Our first African sunset is caused from the power factory we see from our hotel window, not the dust from the African Savannah.

We have seen our first sprinkbok and Impala...as it was served to us for dinner. The carpaccio of springbok was devoured, as was the Impala with penne and loin of springbok. All washed down with the local drop, Pinotage, which proved a dark, viscous number with plenty of ripe blackberry notes.

The meal was an excellent start to our African adventure...or should i say, second start. We had sat down to have dinner at our hotel restaurant, our first mistake not having looked at the menu which consisted of mac and cheese, toasted sandwiches and chicken korma. To be polite we ordered a salad to have with our wine then went in search of something a little more traditional, which obviously was found.

Duty free here is extraordinarily cheap, we picked up a litre bottle of Tanqueray Gin and Balvenie Doublewood single malt for around $60 Australian dollars in total.

This morning we leave our concrete jungle for Victoria Falls. It's supposed to reach 35 degrees there today. As we've been awake since around 4am, we might need a siesta in the heat of the afternoon.