SAFARI – TYPICAL DAY AT MFUWE LODGE

5:30 AM wake-up knock

6:00 AM breakfast, serve yourself

6:30-10:30 or 11:00  game drive with a short tea break around 9:00 (tea, coffee, and cookies served on the hood of the Land Rover)

11:00 AM lunch at the lodge, serve yourself

2:30 PM wildlife lecture (a feature of this tour company)

3:30 PM tea time (tea, coffee, pastry or cake and something savory)

4:00-7:30 PM game drive with a stop about 6:00 for sundowners at the bush bar (cocktails served on the hood of the Land Rover)

8:00 PM formal dinner (well, bush formal) where the waiter announces the menu (always a soup, entrée, and a small dessert) and we are served each course

Upon returning from each game drive, the staff greet us (often by name, I don’t know how they remember all those names) holding a tray of chilled, damp facecloths to wash off the dust and then glasses of fruit juice.  All meals are announced by drum beats – the staff has fun using different rhythms.

And always we are accompanied by bush sounds – bird calls, hippo shorts, lion roars occasionally, once in a while we hear alarm calls from various animals.  We did hear some vocalizations by the elephants but not much.

We have been royally taken care of.