Last weekend I went to Meno-a-Kwena with some girlfriends. It’s a lovely little haute-hippie camp in the northern reaches of the Kalahari Desert. The Boteti River flows below the camp where elephant, warthog, kudu, lion, zebra, and a multitude of other wildlife come to drink. We sat in the sun, cooled off in the pool, chatted, read, and otherwise relaxed in camp.
Late in the afternoon three elephants slowly made their way down the embankment to the river. Once there they ran into the water and spent the next hour playing. One submerged himself except for the top of his belly and the tip of his trunk. Then he would roll over onto his other side and repeat over and over again. Before dinner I took a bucket shower (from a hammered Indian copper pot) and I could still hear all the elephants splashing and playing during their shower. In the morning hippos replaced the elephants in the river grunting in contentment and nudging each other with their large snouts in friendly kisses.
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| Christiane listening to Handel |
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| Four bachelor elephants |
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| Monica reading the Economist |
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| River rock pool |
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