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The Parc W landscape

Parc W Safari, Part One

As soon as we entered Parc W, our driver pulled over and everyone (except for the driver, of course) climbed up to the top of the Jeep. There is a 6 inch guard rail around the top of Jeep and there are wooden planks to sit on. While climbing up, the guide's rifle strap got caught on a tree and his rifle waived around being aimed at all of us. Riding around on top of the Jeep was fun and, despite the sun, cool and breezy. The trail around the park was not paved and so the Jeep kicked up a nasty cloud of red dust as we drove along. We stopped two fishermen and the guide demanded that they give him some of the fish they had caught. I think he insinuated that they were above the limit for the number of fish that they could take.

We rode around for several hours and saw lots of birds, monkeys, and antelopes. We may have seen warthogs and lions, but we cannot say for sure.

Finally, we arrived at a camp site called Point Triple. The cabins were barren and smelled dusty, but several of them had electricity from a solar panel. Kim, Ryan, Fauzia, Laurent, and I set ourselves up in one cabin and the guide and the driver set themselves up in another. There is a radio in the cabin the guide is in, but it is broken.

By this point, we were all pretty hungry for some lunch. Kim had packed a cooler full of rations for the trip. Despite having been told that we would not have to provide food for the driver and the guide, the driver and the guide had no food for our two-and-a-half day adventure. Having seven mouths to feed and enough food and water for five people put Kim into a bit of a bad mood; if she had been told to bring food for the driver and the guide this problem could have been avoided. But we ate a hearty lunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and some odd variety of BBQ Pringles and then Fauzia and Laurent washed our dishes.