Kafue National Park
Day 6, 7 & 8 - 15 th – 17 th June 2019 Initially the road from Mongu to Kaoma was good but deteriorated drastically. The potholes were so bad that every opportunity you got to drive on dirt next to the tar was taken. Seven hours to do 330 km’s – welcome to Africa…… The last section through the Kafue National Park was great, delivering the biggest herd of Roan Antelope we’d ever seen, Puku, Impala and a number of warthogs. We would not have made Kasabushi (a Lodge in the park) by nightfall, so we stuck to Plan A and spent a night at Roy’s Camp, just over Hook Bridge, on a game management area on the banks of the Kafue River. We had heard so much about what a nuisance the Tsetse flies were in the Kafue area, but were pleasantly surprised that there was not a fly in the camp. The night skies brought lion roars and hippo shenanigans echoing across the water all night – really exciting! The next morning, Mark, the camp manager, told us that the lion had come throug