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Maun Slideshow
Maun
Travel Blogs from Maun, Botswana
Between harmony and serenity
Passer la nuit au milieu du delta est un expérience unique. Les animaux sont tout autour. Respect est le maître mot ici. Sauf pour les hyènes et les lions peut-être. Mais du plus gros au plus petit, tout est harmonie. Les hippopotames qui se ...
bye bye crazy Maun dogs
... 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 ...
Deuxième jour au camp de Matswuri
Nous nous levons aux aurores comme d'habitude, vers 6h. Nuit agitée peuplée de bruits d'animaux: hippopotames broutants dans la rivière à côté des tentes et lions, sans parler des souris qui courent autours des tentes. Nous découvrons des ...
Get Ready
... 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 ...
Maun (ma-oon): land of 4x4's
... 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
... 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. ...
Arrivée au Botswana
Nous allons avec Ralph et Tas jusqu'à Maun, ville du Botswana où nous attend Richard (prononcez à l'anglaise, svp), notre nouveau guide. L'après midi libre a été finalement très courte puisque nous sommes arrivés vers 17h30, le temps de monter ...
Let's fly away
... 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 ...
Diving into the Delta
... electrics appeared to be dead. Great time and place to break down, bang smack in the middle of the Okavango with Botswana’s 4-day Independence holidays looming. Public holidays were turning into something of a jinx for us given our experiences in ...
In the Orkavango
Hello Everyone, We are in Maun, Botswana and just finished our 2 day trip into the Orkavango Delta. On our first day in Maun, we went for a senic flight over the delta to see where we would be spending the next two days. From the air we saw ...
Ghanzi to Maun
... 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
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 ...
Desvio para a Namíbia
... rumo à imperdível Namíbia! Momento de incerteza para nós. Como deixamos o Delta só após o almoço, chegamos meio tarde em Maun e não sabíamos aonde conseguiríamos chegar. Dormiríamos em Botsuana? Ou já na Namíbia? O projeto original ...
Africa's magnificent animals !
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." ...
Okavanga Delta
... for an 0800 departure. We made it back to the mokoro camp by 1000 and got back in the truck to take us to the camp in Maun again. We returned to camp to find lunch ready and then proceeded to have a mad dash for the showers. The delta was a ...
Back to Civilisation
... 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 ...
Okavango Delta, Botswana
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
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 ...
Botswana
... . And then I have a few days like I have had in Botswana and all the crap seems more than worthwhile. The first stop in Botswana was Chobe National Park, where we camped at at luxury safari lodge and got to use their facilities – ie, swimming pool, ...
Out of the Delta and back to Maun
in a nutshell: we left the Delta and spent the night back in our campsite in Maun. -------------- Botswana has a different feel from the other 2 African countries we've spent time in. But then Namibia was governed by South Africa from 1918 until its ...
The dustiest ever delta
The Okavango delta was supposed to be one of the main highlights of the trip, I thought. Quite nice but a bit disappointed, but again probably because of lack of preparation rather than anything else. This place is not a swamp, there's no mud. ...
Leaving the truck!
... 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 across a very sandy road to the edge of the delta, where ...
Estada em Maun para atacar o Delta do Okavango
... visite a página inicial sobre este blog. Depois de um acelera/freia irritante para evitar acidentes com os burros na estrada, chegamos a Maun quase anoitecendo, o que nos rendeu mais um pôr-do-sol magnífico. Para quem não conhece muito do ...
Okavango Delta
We stayed in two camps in the Okavango Delta and had a great time and met three great ladies from the Seattle Area to join the campaign to get us to move there. Overall we saw more animals in Linyanti but got a good change of pace in the ...
Concussions, Game Parks and The Delta
... I made my way back. Once everybody was ready we where off. Drive drive drive, lunch, drive, boarder crossing. Crossing into Botswana went very smoothly and the Boatswain customs officials where super nice. Drive drive drive, at the camp site (995m, Lat: ...
Entre harmonie et sérénité
Passer la nuit au milieu du delta est un expérience unique. Les animaux sont tout autour. Respect est le maître mot ici. Sauf pour les hyènes et les lions peut-être. Mais du plus gros au plus petit, tout est harmonie. Les hippopotames qui se ...
Crocodile Farm
We left Livingstone on Monday morning for a short drive before leaving Zambia to enter Botswana. We had to wait to cross a tiny river on ferry before getting the new stamp for our passports. We arrived at our camp for the night and set up our tents before ...
WORDS AND IMAGES: On the road
... arranged security clearance. This is the territory of Debswana, the conglomerate of diamond giant DeBeers and the government of Botswana, and entering here requires bypassing extra measures. Minkie, Christine and I are all a bit skiddish about the ...
Into the Wild...first time to stock up
... plane we took which was actually very nice on the inside. We had the second to last row on the plane going Johannesburg to Maun (Botswana), it was 2hrs long and without a single cloud in the sky we could enjoy looking down on the Botswana country side. ...