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The adventure begins, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

The adventure begins

A travel blog entry by annamac

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... to see. For me the thrill was more to do with what we were actually doing - road tripping around Botswana! Nuts! So we checked in to our place in Francistown and are going to head to one of the big hotels around about for some supper, for the sake of ...

Elephants in the swimming pool!, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

Elephants in the swimming pool!

A travel blog entry by salsasalt

Woke up at 6am to have a shower which was bloody freezing! Today we're heading towards Francistown. Arriving at Francistown we stopped off at a small shopping parade for 45 minutes, they had a supermarket, few clothes shops, bank and burger bar. As 80% of ...

Francistown, Bots, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

Francistown, Bots

A travel blog entry by eadamson

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Very Smelly, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

Very Smelly

A travel blog entry by harryabroad

... bugger me if there was no one there... I gave him a little bit of curry and jumped in the car and said bugger off. Now safely in Botswana hopefully only one currency will make life a little simpler.. Zim we used Rand and US independantly and all at ...

Entering Botswana, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

Entering Botswana

A travel blog entry by msting

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... . I said goodbye to 8 travel mates and welcomed 8 new ones. We crossed the Kazungula ferry into Botswana - uneventful border crossing - and headed to Francistown via Kasane (pronounced Ka-saa-neeee). The roads were amazing to our 1st campsite ... Tar ...

Oil is as important in saudi arabia as it ..., Francistown, Botswana travel blog

Oil is as important in saudi arabia as it ...

A travel blog entry by jamjamdave

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... disconnected on the same day. So..... mournfully we packed our rucksacks and got a lift with a friendly Kenyan called Andrew to Francistown, 60km away. We found a mechanic and he arranged for a car to tow us into town - an adventure in itself. We ...

okovanga delta, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

okovanga delta

A travel blog entry by gez_skip

... for the visa for su for the mix up,and got the intro to everyone, and started to drive, went straight thru zim, and hit the Botswana border, two of the girls on the truck were still drinking from the night before, which was a good sign for me! We get to ...

Pictures, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

Pictures

A travel blog entry by camillagordon

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Just some ...

Francis Town, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

Francis Town

A travel blog entry by rich.starke

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For K, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

For K

A travel blog entry by camillagordon

So here we are almost half way through our time in Botswana and in the last 2 days I have learnt an incredible amount and feel proud to be working with people that I am. On Monday we had a new camp arrive, a group of 10 year olds everything was fine and ...

Day 6 and 7 Botswana adventure, Francistown, South Africa travel blog

Day 6 and 7 Botswana adventure

A travel blog entry by colleenj

... the morning, but quite an experience.  Also the power went out, so we were playing pool by lantern-light.  Enjoyed a few Botswana beers (?St Louis). Arrived in Benoni mid-afternoon Sat 2nd Dec and was picked up by Hazel and Roger.  Had a ...

The second largest city in Botswana, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

The second largest city in Botswana

A travel blog entry by tomlinej

The second largest city in Botswana was large, but only had one "main drag" that did not light up at night.  We camped at a luxury resort and are loving the options that our tent brings us.  Camping was like $20 US vs. $450 US for a ...

Otse to Francistown, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

Otse to Francistown

A travel blog entry by xianart

... between us. Not bad. We will be very bored of our clothes at the end of the odyssey! Tree growing through rock - near Francistown I saw my first snake last night on my drive. I stepped over a twig, and then realised what it was. I decided saying ...

African Animals Awesome, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

African Animals Awesome

A travel blog entry by kim57

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Stopped in to check out the lodge and ended up staying overnight.  Met some wonderful people and got out on a bush drive.....giraffe, ostrich, zebra, impala, kudu and many ...

Francistown, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

Francistown

A travel blog entry by nicor

... in Francistown which was, as always, very pleasant. At the campsite, we met some guys from Bulawayo on a shopping trip to Francistown to buy stock for their shops. After enquiring about the security and fuel situations in Zimbabwe, we decided to alter the ...

Monday 19 September, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

Monday 19 September

A travel blog entry by miguel.ta

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Nata to Francistown Decent pace today, smart as it is a long day, the group was a bit bigger today with the decent pace and little wind, drink stop was at 60km and lunch stop at 125km except we got their before the truck and waited a while, but it gave ...

Apr 24, 2010, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

Apr 24, 2010

A travel blog entry by bertjanb

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The Lodge & Surrounding Area, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

The Lodge & Surrounding Area

A travel blog entry by kim57

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Here are some pictures of the place we spent the night!  Beautiful location, great accomodation, friendly ...

SAFARI BOTSWANA, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

SAFARI BOTSWANA

A travel blog entry by jakeyboy1989

TBA ...

Botswana, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

Botswana

A travel blog entry by blackcat0

cross the boarder from SA to Botswana with no problem. My passport wasn't stamped in South Africa so the first entry for this trip is Botswana. This was to get around the problems with apartite. Botswana is FLAT. Even for a boy from the praries. just not ...

IMAGES: Transport troubles, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

IMAGES: Transport troubles

A travel blog entry by vivirconvalor

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Days 212-213 - Robbery Number 1!, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

Days 212-213 - Robbery Number 1!

A travel blog entry by robandjenny

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... partly because the car kept breaking down so taking pictures was the least of our worries and partly because when we stayed in Francistown (Botswana’s second biggest 'city’ of 95,000 people) , the bakkie got broken into and we were very upset ...

Chez la cousine de Paul, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

Chez la cousine de Paul

A travel blog entry by paulisa

Week end chez la cousine de Paul avant d'aller au Zim... Week end at Paul's cousin before heading to ...

The adventure begins, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

The adventure begins

A travel blog entry by camillagordon

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Wow so here we go, Elliott and I have been here for a week now and what an amazing time we have had so for, the first night we spent in a game lodge called Mashatu where we saw loads of Elephants stampeding across in front of us from massive bulls ...

Gaborone to Francistown, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

Gaborone to Francistown

A travel blog entry by richardt

... 5 1/2 hours costing P51 (At the time of writing there are c. P12.5 to the Pound; the US$ is 2 to the Pound) Francistown is a dusty junction town; I found the Metcourt Lodge - classic motel type comfort with TV, a/c and even free wifi internet with ...

Sep 19, 2011, Francistown, Botswana travel blog

Sep 19, 2011

A travel blog entry by annoiatissima

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