November 5th – Day Forty Two We left the camp site at 8am and had our last drive through the Etosha National Park, leaving on our way towards the nights accommodation at the Otjitotongwe Cheetah Park. The journey out of the park was uneventful, nothing being sighted that we hadn’t already seen and photographed before, […]
Lions
November 4th – Day Forty One Today was much like the previous with morning and evening game drives separated by relaxing and writing at camp. The morning drive was mostly uneventful except for a part near the end we came across a lioness lounging near the side of the road. As she wandered back into […]
Leopard
November 3rd – Day Forty The plan was to leave early and drive to the furthest of the other two rest camps, Okaukuejo. Along the way we would be passing through the national park so the whole day was a game drive, the length of the drive dictated by what we would be seeing rather […]
Etosha
November 2nd – Day Thirty Nine Before we could leave this morning we had to collect the washing taken the night before to the camp site laundry service. We were like inquisitive cats not wanting to intrude somewhere they are not meant to be, we’d take turns to loiter near the entrance to the washing […]
Onwards to Namibia
November 1st – Day Thirty Eight Everyone was keen to be back at the truck today so we were up early and sitting around waiting for the boat to arrive for our gear at 7am. All the gear was quickly loaded once the boat had turned up and we were on our way with a […]
Mokoro trip
October 31st – Day Thirty Seven Another of the group had a birthday, Helen being 33 today. We had a morning game walk, much like the previous evenings except we saw more Elephant and nearly walked all the way back to the bus stop. We got to get quite close to a couple of little […]
Bush Camp in the Okavango Delta
October 30th – Day Thirty Six Sunrise over the reeds at Makwena Guess what? It was an early start with us all ready by 7am to load everything onto the boats for a trip through the delta to the ‘bus stop’ where we would be meeting our Mokoro polers. Now getting very efficient a line […]
Okavango Delta
October 29th – Day Thirty Five We didn’t have to rise quite so early today as we weren’t due in Maun until 9am for our morning flight over the Okavango Delta. Leaving after 8am was a novelty, it was nice not to be rushing around for once. The drive into Maun was sedate and we […]
Driving to Maun
October 28th – Day Thirty Four As is usual we had an early start for our journey away from the National Park towards the city of Maun. One thing we noticed today was the general good repair of the roads in Botswana, the ride being comparatively smooth compared to the roads we had travelled in […]
Chobe again
October 27th – Day Thirty Three The early start saw us back at reception and being picked up for another game drive in the National Park. We had the same driver again and were soon off down the road heading for the park gate. Unfortunately this drive wasn’t a patch on the night before with […]
Just quickly
We’ve left Zambia and are now in Botswana staying in a campsite on the side of the Chobe river. Keryn went for a flight in a Tiger Moth the other day, a bunch of people (not us) from the truck went white water rafting and we managed to leave Zambia with no problems. We’ve been […]
Chobe
October 26th – Day Thirty Two To facilitate our early arrival at the Chobe National Park in Botswana and more importantly an early berth on the ferry from Zambia we left very early this morning. There were more than a few people talking in overly loud voices or even singing at we took down our […]