Friday, Jan 31. Slept so very badly. Bedroom is full of bugs. But it didn’t impact my day.
Lion footprint. Elephant, mom and child. Warthog. Impala. Leopard Tortoise. Lots of more elephants. Various birds.
Visited supermarket. Better in appearance than the general community atmosphere. Adjoining bank with a long line of people hoping to get their weekly allowed withdrawal from their own accounts. About $17. “We can’t trust the banks!” Says our trip leader. The country is broke in a very literal sense. A lot of routinely accepted illegal activity supervised partly by the police..
School. Catholic. Test questions on pages dated 2001. Deplorable condition, though the children’s cloths are nice. I took a photo, then asked the boys if they wanted another with their teacher. Frowns. “Teacher is not good,” whispers one student. It’s a sad situation. (China, by the way, contributes nothing to the wellbeing of their employees beyond a paycheck.)
Homestead. Large loose family commune. A central water faucet. Cattle is their currency. Very sad condition. Very cheerful though, with the women screeching their welcome. Each time they start, I cringe. I compare it to Native Americans on the warpath.
After a siesta, we did a little drive, seeing a few animals. Many elephants though.
Lunch and dinner are western style. Though the temperature hasn’t been as hot as I feared, it’s still obsessive.
Sunrise. 
Lion Footprint 
Big Charles. A friend of Mado. 
A mud bath. 
A Leopard Tortoise 
This bird did not move the entire time we were stopped. 
Tree of Life. Elephants dig into the trunk to suck up the juice. Eventually the tree dies. 
Guinea Fowl. Odd shape. “Sometimes they forget that they can fly.” 
Our lounge area.