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Botswana Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Botswana, Botswana
Okavango Dreaming!
This is a top pick! ... stereotypical engagement conjured up, and encountered, when people speak of taking a mokoro ride in the Okavango Delta, in northern Botswana - a beast, frisson of deadly danger ... and safety. The wetland is the largest inland delta on the planet, ...
Decisions, Decisions...
This is a top pick! ... , ostriches and the odd giraffe running out infront of the car. Veterinary inspections and police inspections. Yes, driving in Botswana is exhausting. However, we finally arrived safe and well in Maun, ready to make arrangements for the Okavango Delta. ...
all set?
This is a top pick! Right, here we go. Set off Friday nice and early, the backpackers' boat took about eight of us to Boro, that's the gate where the mokoros are waiting to take you into the delta. I was the only one going solo and feeling slightly apprehensive ...
time and place
This is a top pick! I'm going to rush through the last part of the trip now. After the impact of the Okavango the rest of the trip almost escaped me. Gweta, a lovely place to stay, our tents placed under the fairytale baobab trees. How can these ancient trees, some ...
adam
This is a top pick! Adam is such a simple person he is actually hard to describe. He is kind of there but not filling much space, he doesn't say much though he's not being sullen and when he does I don't understand him, or I do and I don't know what he ...
The muppets from Overland Club
This is a top pick! ... ! Unfortunately they only had 3 full chickens left and I ended up with 'The Complete Burger'. We were also running short on Botswana Pula so with about as much decorum as a bunch of baboons we also dragged all our own beers into the restaurant hidden in a ...
Gameless Game Drive in Chobe!
This is a top pick! ... , with the addition of a pre-scrub, also existed for the washing up the pots and pans. Now on to the important stuff. Tried 2 Botswana beers that evening. Lt. Louis and Hansa. What a load of crap. No offense to Bud drinkers, but this stuff really did ...
breath of fresh air
This is a top pick! A new morning, and, as more often than not, we are taking down our tents at the crack of dawn. Only once did we spend 2 nights at the same place, but we are covering great distances so many hours are spent in the truck. Sometimes to my ...
Kev...is that...an elephant standing by our tent??
This is a top pick! ... behind the door and all they can hear is the very heavy breathing and growling from the dinosaur. This, was Jurassic Park in Botswana...only with elephants! Insane! And then the elephants (there was by now of course more than one) started to rip apart ...
Encounters with elephants and the Okavango Ghost!
This is a top pick! Up at 5:30 for tea and cereal before heading off for what was a very long 6 hour game walk. Very cool indeed, the highlights were getting within about 15m from a giraffe and 5m from an elephant. The elephant eventually started flapping ...
The land of donkeys and endless fences
This is a top pick! ... we arrived in Nata, our lunch spot. Thinking back in the whole 5 hours I only remember passing through one small village. Botswana is so sparsely populated. 1.6m people in a country the size of France! We did however spot wildlife on route, elephant, ...
Zambia via Botswana
This is a top pick! ... We were shooting for Livingston, Zambia, but we were not allowed to drive into Zambia according to our rental agreement. The Namibia-Botswana border was no problem, though we did have to press all of our shoes on a mat soaked in biocide. The Botswanan ...
Into Africa
This is a top pick! ... bus was asleep before long. Later that afternoon we arrived at our campsite on the Kavango River, close to the border with Botswana. We sat and watched another incredible African sunset (they never get boring) and saw crocodiles and hippos swimming in the ...
Bovu Island and Mr. John
This is a top pick! I woke this morning to find myself in paradise. It felt like I was near the ocean, because the ground was sand and I knew I was on an island. But, no, just on the Zambezi River. We were to go back to mainland Zambia for a few hours of plant walking ...
Botswana - Bushmen and Mokoro trip
This is a top pick! ... funny to see a bushman smoke modern day cigarettes. The following day we went into the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana for a two-night bush-camping excursion using traditional dugout canoes called a 'mokoro'. Each mokoro had a poler who ...
Victoria Falls and to the Middle of the River
This is a top pick! Today I woke feeling 100%. I continued with the meds that obviously helped. The plan for the day was to head to Victoria Falls. We hired a dready cab driver and got to the Falls around 9. It was $10 to enter the park to see the Falls. At first site ...
Back to Botswana
This is a top pick! ... , to the border, across the ferry, got the van and headed south. We camped at a safari camp in the middle of nowhere, Botswana. We woke the next morning and continued south with a stop in Francistown to stock up on food. I got some sandals repaired on ...
Drifting down the Zambezi
This is a top pick! A... Once we'd got used to Zimbabwean inflation in Harare we headed North East to Lake Kariba, lying between Zimbabwe and Zambia. In 2001 US$1 would buy you ZIM$38, today it'll get you ZIM$5,500 in a bank, or ZIM$8,000 on the black market, and it ...
The Caprivi Strip
This is a top pick! Today we tried to make it across the border into Botswana. We first had to get to and across the Caprivi Strip, a small strip of land who's people resisted Namibian and South African governments for over a decade. They were finally brutalized into ...
Down in the Delta Blues
This is a top pick! ... souvenir is my new book mark: a one Zim dollar note worth about 0.005 of a penny then but probably 0.003 at time of writing). Botswana is how an Africa country can work. For the first time on the trip we were not hassled at the border and we didn't ...
Arrived
This is a top pick! ... I have got a job...working for the Botswana Harvard Partnership (BHP), and they are paying me to travel around Botswana gathering information - hurrah! This partnership has been running for nearly 10 years and is dedicated to researching and studying the ...
And the rains came
This is a top pick! ... could be heard throughout the night inbetween the clashes of thunder and ever pounding rain. Religion is big business in Botswana, where most will claim to be Anglican. Christianity is mixed with traditional beliefs so the Batswana believe that if the ...
.......is it my dainty feet?
This is a top pick! ... potbellied middle-aged white men who thought I would leap at the chance of being the object of their loutish affections, in Botswana there is an endless supply of, sometimes quite attractive, eager young black men falling over themselves to get there ...
Botswana - Chobe National Park
This is a top pick! ... took a leisurely cruise on the Chobe river along the edge of the park. The Chobe river is the border between Namibia and Botswana, and many animals are found along the shores or crossing the river. The number of hippos and elephants that we spotted ...
Leaving gabs
This is a top pick! This is for the purpose of following my travels and not an update... see the next one for ...
Down on the Bayou...African Style
This is a top pick! ... that was shaped and painted to look like a traditional handmade dugout log canoe. Turns out that the government of Botswana was getting concerned that too many ancient trees were being felled to build boats to transport tourists around the delta, so they ...
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
This is a top pick! ... know its bad when you can smell yourself, you know its really bad when you can no longer smell yourself!!! Botswana is haunting, mesmerising, frustrating, amazing, beautiful, breath-takingly awesome... the people are friendly, open, warm and inviting, ...
Being Rescued from the Sand
This is a top pick! ... that they were 6 South African / Zimbabwean friends who were enjoying their retirement by going on a 4x4 expedition through the Kalahari and Botswana. I could have kissed them when they said they had a tow rope. And so we all set to work, with one eye ...
"In the jungle, the mighty jungle......
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Okavango Delta Day Two Day : 461 Temperature : Always the same Weather : You know what it's like by now... ......the LION sleeps tonight!" After the elephants left us last night we slept soundly for most of the night, the only noises ...