My School Trip - by Danica

On Monday morning I left on a trip to Wild Tracks in the Lower Zambezi with 11 other classmates. We left at 8 a.m. on the new school bus. Unfortunately, the bus broke down about 2 minutes into the ride and we ended up having to wait for 2 hours while the bus got fixed. Once the bus got fixed it was a four hour drive including when we had to cross a river on a pontoon.

The accommodations were called tree houses, but they were actually cabins on tall stilts. This is because there are lots of animals there and we even had elephants walk through our camp at night! Other animals we saw were: kudu, duiker, hippo, crocodile and monitor lizard.

During the day we did activities such as fishing, climbing the giant baobab tree and abseiling down, an obstacle course and a walk using a GPS to find geocash – a hidden treasure. We also did lots of teambuilding activities, we watched the sunset from a boat and we had a night of stargazing – did you know that there is no big dipper in this part of the world?

The food was good (surprisingly), although they gave us way too much. Thankfully they didn’t serve any Nshima - the local maize product that’s really gross.

Overall, it was a really fun trip and we wished we could stay longer but I was really tired when I got home.