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		<title>About Wild African Elephants on Your Doorstep</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most remarkable experiences in the Lower Zambezi Valley in Zambia is getting elephants on your doorstep. Not the &#8220;pink&#8221; variety, but real live, huge wild African elephants. Thankfully usually only one at a time. At one camp there was a faithful elephant visitor called Nelson. He had only one tusk, was blind [...]]]></description>
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One of the most remarkable experiences in the Lower Zambezi Valley in Zambia is getting elephants on your doorstep. Not the &#8220;pink&#8221; variety, but real live, huge wild African elephants. Thankfully usually only one at a time.</p>
<p>At one camp there was a faithful elephant visitor called Nelson. He had only one tusk, was blind in one eye and had a damaged ear. He also had a notoriously bad temper. One day he broke into the camp&#8217;s store room (by breaking down the door) and made off with, <a href="http://www.</p>
<p>threepersontent.us&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;>three person tent</a><br />
,  a 25 kg sack of mealie meal!</p>
<p>Our closest encounter was early one morning,, three person tent<br />
,  when we were sitting on our deck having coffee. Nelson strolled through the camp and was headed straight for our tent. At the tent he stopped, gave us a nasty stare, then proceeded to scratch himself against a small nearby tree. We were paralysed, three person tent<br />
,  and speechless.</p>
<p>After all, it&#8217;s one thing getting, three person tent<br />
,  up close and personal to these giant beasts from the safety of a Land Rover &#8211; quite different I can assure you when one interrupts your early morning coffee from a few metres away. Having scratched himself to his satisfaction, Nelson ambled off towards the river. We then paced the distance from us to the &#8220;scratching post&#8221;. Only three and a half metres! A bit too close for comfort, I thought.</p>
<p>Another day a lone elephant was eating leaves off a tree next to our shower. I could have reached over the shower wall and touched, three person tent<br />
,  him (but didn&#8217;t!). A step to the right and he would have been IN the shower! Then there was the jumbo that decided the swimming pool was his water bowl. Advancing slowly and gracefully out of the trees and through the camp, he walked straight up to the pool and started to drink.</p>
<p>Glad I was watching this from a distance and not from in the pool!</p>
<p>The final morning came and it was time to have breakfast, check out and get to the airstrip. This wasn&#8217;t as simple as it sounds as there were no less than four individual bull elephants in the camp, scattered all over as it were. Walking to the dining room wasn&#8217;t a good idea (well not unless you like tripping over elephants). Eventually we made it and got away.</p>
<p>What an amazing end to, three person tent<br />
,  a very memorable holiday!</p>
<p>Jacquie Stafford has lived in Africa for over 40 years and has a passion for travel and wildlife. She now designs personalised tours to some of Africa&#8217;s most exciting destinations. For more insights on safari life visit her website &#8211; <a target="_new" href="http://www.kunjani.co.za" rel="nofollow">http://www.kunjani.co.za</a></p>
<p>Source: ezinearticles.com</p>
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