Cleanliness is next to ..........

A most important thing, when on Safari, is "Cleanliness".

In the Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe you may not find 

a luxurious hotel with shower and tub.

Therefore you must simply make do 

with the amenities which offer themselves.

Above here we have a modern shower:

A canvass container, filled with water from the river Runde 

and suspended on a rope strung from tree to tree.

One simply stands underneath, stark naked, turns the little valve at the bottom, 

allowing water to stream through many little holes unto your body.

Be quick about it. Use a little soap, and rinse off. 

All with about 4 or 5 liters of water.

Once you have emptied this canvass bag, it's your job to go down

 to the river and fill it up again for the next "clean-freak"

You, of course, are not the only one who wants to stay clean.

There is a family of Elephants, who use a pond as their tub 

and, of course, they have a built in shower.

At a very shallow stretch of the river

you may pretend that you've found a tub for yourself.

The spot had better be "very shallow", since Crocs and Hyppos operate in the deep spots.

They fortunately shun the shallows.