Maun, Botswana Travel Blogs

Encounters with elephants and the Okavango Ghost!
Apr 25, 2006 (8 photos)

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 it ...

The land of donkeys and endless fences
Apr 23, 2006 (1 photos)

... 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, ...

Public Transit in Botswana
Dec 20, 2004

... travel guide they will tell you to Visit all the popular sites and see some wild life. If you really want to see Botswana and experience it from a local¡¦s point of view I recommend you travel with the locals. I departed Gabarone at 6am Monday morning ...

Botswana - Bushmen and Mokoro trip
Mar 27, 2006 (18 photos)

... 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 ...

And the rains came
Nov 24, 2005

... 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 ...

Goin' Up the Country
Sep 9, 2005 (2 photos)

... riverbeds, salt plains, and the thorn bush-bordered kraals, or paddocks, that cover even the most remote portions of Botswana. Straight lines and intersecting right angles mark the cattle fences, the system of fence "highways" that divide almost ever inch ...

Mokoro madness
Apr 24, 2006 (7 photos)

... ! That evening was pretty chilly and I had to sleep with my bag zipped up most of the way. Very nice sleeping weather though. Botswana has been very cool on the evenings. So far this trip seems to have been very well run. Eman the guide has done a ...

My hubby, my hero
Jan 16, 2008 (9 photos)

... We have 630 km to drive and here, you never know how long it will take. The road LOOKS OK. We are heading for Maun, in the centre of Botswana. We cannot go straight: that road is only accessible for 4X4. We have to do a big detour triangle. Elephants are ...

Where Dr T and M ALMOST rent a toilet
Jan 17, 2008 (3 photos)

... shine to chairs flying over the terrace and pouring; pouring! We have to go inside. At 19h, we go for diner: I take a typical Botswana dish: oxtail. It is yummie but very fat. Will we have a rim tomorrow? With no spare tire: we are prisoners!   ...

Botswana
Aug 3, 2003 (2 photos)

Hi Guys, You can read our update from Botswana in our entry from Cape Town, South Africa entitled 'Cape Town at Last!!!'. Cheers, K & S

Will we have a rim today ???
Jan 18, 2008

Check out of our Sedia and check into Maun Lodge. On our way to the new lodge, we drop buy at AVIS. No tire, or what do you think? I get upset with this chick. 'like I told him, yesterday, ...' (where I come from, one does not refer to people as him or her ...

A Venetian gondola in Africa
Jan 19, 2008 (11 photos)

We arrive at the Audi camp, only 5 minutes late. The drive to the Okavango Delta is supposed to take 1,5 hours. But that is OK, I'll sleep in my air-conditioned van. Dr T points an open primitive vehicle out at the camp: he must be kidding! He is not. We ...

Homeless in Botswana
Feb 9, 2005

... he knew a good place and after letting off several of his other riders, we were delivered to this beautiful hotel in Botswana. Explaining our situation to the manager, we were promptly set up with rooms and the staff reopened their kitchen to prepare ...

Okavango Delta
Jun 17, 2007 (19 photos)

Delta

Walking with the Bushmen
Jan 14, 2008 (6 photos)

... street with your typical shops that we quickly run into get supplies. (ie. Water and beer).  I find the people of Botswana to be very nice, and somewhat reserved. Botswana itself is one of the wealthier African countries although you would never know ...

Deep in the Okavango Delta
Sep 18, 2006 (12 photos)

... , we took our small aircraft captained by a British pilot, who had simply decided one day to quit his job and come fly in Botswana, to Baobab Island. We were the only two passengers on the plane and were the only two staying at the camp for all four days. ...

Botswana & Namibia
Feb 9, 2009 (10 photos)

... ), we cyphoned off some petrol from an abondoned vehicle and dragged ourselves to Maun just before the sunset. Maun is the main tourist hub of Botswana and the centre for arranging trips into the Okavango Delta, which we duly did. The Okavango Delta ...

bye bye crazy Maun dogs
Apr 19, 2008 (4 photos)

... the first night. Internet cafe only accessible from 8-5pm and not on weekends (hence me updating from a local internet cafe in Maun town now, blasted with cold air-con and listening to Bryan Adams' "Please Forgive Me" on perpetual repeat). Oh and ...

Get Ready
Oct 15, 2009

... another country.  About a half a century ago, diamonds were discovered in this area and the resultant economic boom transformed Botswana into one of Africa's richest countries (as measured by per capita income).  This is a relative thing as most ...

Day 183 186 (2) - Botswana, Maun - Okavango Delta
May 10, 2009

The scenic flight over the Delta was brilliant. 1 hour flight in 6 seater plane for US$66 each. Sah, Martin, Suzy Q, Oliver and I went with Suzy's pilot friend John. Saw heaps impala, giraffe and massive herd of elephants - big and small. John banked ...

Maun (ma-oon): land of 4x4's
Apr 17, 2008 (9 photos)

... veg + canned mutton curry + udon noodles (a treat!) and some Japanese fish-based soup. Start: Ghanzi, BOT. 11:45 End: Maun, BOT. 17:08 Distance Travelled: 310 km Road Conditions: long stretches of paved road, littered with cows, goats, Hunter dogs, ...

Wildes Botswana
Sep 14, 2009

... man es ja immer wahnsinnig cool, aber es gab einige Situationen, da war uns nicht sehr wohl. Wir starteten unseren Botswana Teil in Kasane. Kasane liegt am Chobe River, welcher eine sehr hohe Dichte an Tieren aufweist, insbesondere in der Trockenzeit. So ...

Arrivée au Botswana
Aug 13, 2006 (4 photos)

Nous allons avec Ralph et Tas jusqu'à Maun, ville du Botswana où nous attend Richard (prononcez à ...

Let's fly away
Mar 18, 2007 (19 photos)

... ground after my 3 days on the delta, I decided to go up in a plane and see the delta from the air. We went down to Maun's absolutely tiny airport where we had to go through security and baggage checks (all I had was a camera!) and then we got on a tiny ...

Ghanzi to Maun
Jul 24, 2008 (4 photos)

... sun go down over the delta while listening to hippos bath in the distance. Next day we packed up camp, and returned to Maun.  Late afternoon we took a scenic flight over the Delta in 5-person planes.  It was impressive seeing the Delta from ...

Maun - the arrival
Jul 18, 2004

We now sit in our little hotel room in Maun, Botswana. A little dazed and confused, but we have arrived at last! Don't let anyone tell you that international air travel isn't hard work, even if all you do is sit on an airplane for 21 hours trying to keep ...

Africa's magnificent animals !
Aug 16, 2009 (13 photos)

When my mother described her African safaris, her face would become very intense, "the animals are magnificent. I didn't know if I would like Africa but it was my favorite trip."  

Back to Civilisation
Sep 3, 2009 (5 photos)

... such a massively spread area seen from above. Sadly we said goodbye to Emma and Paul who were leaving the truck tomorrow and with our early start planned we had a few farewell drinks tonight. This is our last night in Botswana as tomorrow we enter Namibia.

Okavango Delta, Botswana
Mar 17, 2007 (6 photos)

So, for the last 3 days we have been properly bush camping in the middle of nowhere, in the Okavango Delta in Botswana.  I was particularly excited about this as I beleiev i have seen it featured on Planet Earth and remember thinking, 'I hope we go ...

Living with the animals
Mar 17, 2007 (16 photos)

From Chobe we headed off in the baking heat to Maun. Along the way we passed some elephants sitting by the roadside. It's funny, in England we get excited if we see a hedgehog by the road, and here we saw a herd of elephants! The place where we stopped for ...