Acrobaobab!

Here are a few snapshots of Acrobaobab....an amazing obstacle course of ziplines & such thru' a baobab forest. Not a forest like you would most likely picture but a desert forest of sorts. We drove far off the main road to get here. Baobab trees have very soft wood - so they're not good for furniture - and their trunks are hollow. Up until about 50 years ago some people here used them for cemeteries by placing the remains of the dearly departed in the trunk. Can't remember just what people group did this but they had some belief that being put in the ground was a bad thing ... not sure why. Anyhow ... this menagerie of obsacles we navigated was hung high above the ground among the baobab trees. Talk about a full body workout! But I'd much rather get my excercise here than in an American Gym :) This is way more fun! Justine didn't want to do it....she's not a big fan of heights. I only decided to do it at the very last minute after seeing how much fun the others were having. One stretch even carried us in a small boat across the zipline! I felt a bit like Peter Pan! Alexis & David made it all the way to the end. I, on the other hand took a little shortcut near the end as I was pretty well spent by that time. In one pic above you can see Alexis climbing a baobob tree from the inside out :) Pretty neat. It was a lot of work...but we were rewarded at the end on the final stretch of zipline where we each had a special treat waiting for us on the way down the final stretch of zipline and as we met head on with buckets of water being thrown on us by guys at the end as we zipped by. What a refreshing treat after working up such a sweat. Trust me when I say it is harder than it looks! :) - Joyce

( This baobab tree was actually at the wild animal park & was the only elephant they had there :)