Zambia

Of course, while we were traveling, we wanted to see more than Victoria Falls. The next day we went on a safari to a park near the town of Livingstone, named after the Falls, Mousi-ou-Tunya. The highlight of the safari was the rhino walk, where you are allowed to get (sort of) close to the family of rhinoceros that live there. They have their own around-the-clock armed guards. The guards told us that the guns were not to protect us from the rhinos, but to scare off any poachers. And so far it has worked.

Elephants on safari. The main road to our hotel was an elephant corridor and we saw them block traffic while they crossed the road. The largest male would take a threatening pose at the cars he was facing until the family of elephants had completely cross. We were in a minivan and a small car in front of us moved behind us, presumably because they were afraid of the elephants. If an elephant is around, bicyclists would move to the center of the road so that they were protected by the cars around them from a potentially irate elephant.