With the roads in Zambia not exactly being state of the art, it took us around 13 hours to get from Kafue in the South to South Luangua in the North, which included a stop in Lusaka and plenty of pee breaks. 
South Luangwa was a good place for a game drive where we got to see a good mix of animals, but our closest wild animal encounters we had during the nights. I could almost not sleep because of the loud chomping noises that the hippos made when eating seagrass. And when we could hear their loud, evil sounding laughter we knew that they were not far away. One of the nights the hippos woke us up, and when I looked outside the tent I saw that some of them were less than three meters away! Knowing that hippos are the mammals that kills the most humans, I was quick to draw my head back into my tent thinking about what to do if they suddenly decided to take down our tent. We were happy every time the sun came up and we understood that the hippos had let us live for another day.
During one of the days, while I was sitting eating ramen noodles there was also an elephant sneaking up behind me. The elephant was pretty peaceful when I sat there by myself, but when more people came to see, the elephant became threatened and started charging towards us. The elephant then spent a good hour in between our tents, while eating leafs from the nearby trees. South Luangwa was definitely the place that had given us the biggest wildlife experience and there was no need for game drives as most of the animals could be spotted from our tents.
