Nothing can prepare the faint-hearted

Adrenalin junkies: We had our fair share of adrenalin rush when we turned on the adventurous side by roping on a steel conveyor to go zip-ling over dense forest, some 300ft off the ground, writes Edgar R. Batte.

The last fortnight has taken me to two places, the South Coast of warm Durban, in South Africa and another in Kitagwenda in Uganda. The experiences were similar.
Lake Eland Game Reserve was the place to turn on the adventurous side by roping on a steel conveyor to go zip-ling over dense forest, some 300ft off the ground while in Kitagwenda, the avalanche of greenery was an experience first-hand, through a nature walk.
Kitagwendwa is equally forested but with so much potential to develop into equally good adventure destination. Well, in South Africa, nothing has quite prepared your writer’s mind for heights.
It has always tickled and played a destabilising game to the inner comforts. And that is how I ended up opting to capture the moments as new friends took to the zip line on the south side.
Africa was happy and ready to take the flight from Botswana. Journalist sand media personalities from Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda were on a familiarisation trip and adventure was written all-over the to-do plan and list.
There was a demonstration to prepare the group; how to fasten the body in strong steel and buckles wound around the waistline and onto the zip line. The female guides did so effortless that even the faint-hearted would think twice about not trying the adventure and rush their adrenaline.
Within minutes, everyone was dressed and served with a helmet. I kept avid to the camera, capturing moments in the measure as receiving jibes for settling out of something i have done before. I wanted to think of it as a sacrificial act.
The Elland zip line was not as intense as the Limpopo abseiling over longer distance, and over rowdy waterfalls and rocks that sent my adrenaline in overdrive.
In the Game Reserve, it was a trip in the air from one rock to another, over a forested ground, metres below. It was natural to hear screams that tended into fetes of a mixture of excitement and cries of accomplishment. Up in the air, suspended and holding onto steel, there is every reason to fortify your belief in the creator.
One of the group members took a while to decide on whether to take on the adventure, tickling us with jokes of consultation with her ancestors. Travel always has its light moments that will draw you close and cement relationship owing to unification of different personalities.