Okavango River Maun

Por Robson

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Depois de um acelera/freia irritante para evitar acidentes com os burros na estrada, chegamos a Maun quase …

The best 4 days of the trip. Packed our weekend packs and brought 2 2L jugs of water each, sleeping bags and mats. Complete serenity being on the Mokoro canoe, traveling through tall reeds of grass along the river to our makeshift camp site. We bush camp here with no toilets, or showers. The Delta is fresh water so we can bath in the water but …

Drove to Maun which is a disappointing town. Our campground is 12 km's outside of town and me and Leo opted to upgrade to a beautiful chalet for $30. It was worth it. The campground is amazing and there were signs warning of a hippo that has been bothersome! Cool!

Me, Leo, Lee, Dave, Alice, Gareth and Kaylee opted to take a flight over the …

Tunes - Soundgarden - King of Animals which is ok and Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History which is good poppy music to bop along to on the truck.

Reading - 'Gone Tomorrow' by Lee Child. My second installment - not as good as the other Reacher book I have read but easy reading perfect for the truck.

Back on the road again after …

... , displace the soggy stems, stand, push again. Back-breaking. Consider it for a septuagenarian. Cross the wide, gushing Okavango River pandhandle section. Standing polers crouch, or sit, lest the hard-pushing broadside current undermines the balance, ...

... a day-tripper, much less a chronicler. But in Shakawe I'm off to the races immediately, gone with TOCaDI staff over the Okavango river to collect some basket weavers for a quality control workshop further down the Delta. At the ferry launch dozens of ...

... , firewood and liquor, we headed back to Island Safari Lodge, where Tanya and I elected to take the sunset boat cruise on the Okavango River.  Island Safari Lodge was right on the river, so all we had to do was walk 10 steps from our campsite to the ...

... cloudless sky. The Okavango delta was the other highlight of my time in Botswana. This is a vast expanse of wetland formed when the Okavango river gives up trying to get to the sea and just stops at this area, slowly sinking into the ground. We had three ...

From Maun we travelled to the Okovango Delta, a system of waterways created by the Okavango River as it runs into Botswana and hits the sands of the Kalahari desert. (interesting fact: 85% of Botswana is the Kalahari Desert). We took a bone-jolting ride ...

... from Kasane. Maun is our jumping off point for the Okavango Delta. The Okavango Delta is where the Okavango River (from Angola) empties into the deserts of Botswana. The first day was just relaxing around the campsite. The next morning, we left at ...

Greetings from the Okavango delta!  This is a unique spot where the Okavango River comes from Angola, through Namibia and fans into the middle of Botswana.  I guess I expected to see something that looks like when you spill a glass of water ...

... , sleeping at a campsite on the river on the Angolan border.  It seemed strange, we were in Namibia looking across the Okavango River at people living in Angola collecting water and washing and swimming in the river.  We passed through lots of ...

... checkpoints and windhoek and Namibia were long gone and i was in Maun on the edge of the okavango delta, i set up camp at the okavango river lodge, a relaxed backpackers with a lively bar. next day i went to find my feet in Maun and tried to organise a ...

... our two-day excursion into the Okavango Delta.  This river delta is the world’s biggest inland delta, where the Okavango River simply ends in the dry land by spreading out widely and eventually evaporating. It leaves a wetland with loads of ...