Maun, Botswana Travel Blogs

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."  

Okavanga Delta
May 14, 2007 (10 photos)

... 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
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 ...

Out of the Delta and back to Maun
Aug 8, 2006

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
Oct 8, 2006 (11 photos)

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. Just ...

Okavango Delta and the Gods must be Crazy-bushman
May 19, 2006 (6 photos)

... go into now... Botswana, outside of the immense HIV epidemic (that all neighboring countries also share) is extremely beautiful and full with postcard-like wildlife. Take a peek as D'Lysh and I travel the Okavango Delta, Maun and northern Botswana!

Okavango Delta
Sep 24, 2006 (30 photos)

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 Delta.

Entre harmonie et sérénité
Oct 21, 2004 (2 photos)

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 baignaient ...

WORDS AND IMAGES: On the road
Nov 30, 2005 (5 photos)

... 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
Sep 11, 2009

... 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. It ...

Day 14 - Leaving Namibia
Aug 27, 2005

... good as watching any rival NFL game back home. With victory claimed by New Zealand's All Blacks, we boarded Ella and head off to Botswana. It was an intense day of driving for our man, Walt. Time had been cut tight with the match and we had 4x4 trucks ...

Zim - Zam
Aug 27, 2004 (3 photos)

... Yesterday, we made our way into Botswana. We smuggled in some meat by hiding behind our safe-box and a few cases of beer. Botswana is a sparsly populated, relatively rich country. This starts the final 21 day leg of my 71 day trip. I've vowed to go ...

Okavanga delta flight
Apr 23, 2008 (15 photos)

April 23. Having organized a 1-hour scenic flight the day previous, Mario and I awoke and headed to the Maun airport to jump on a 4-seater cesna and fly across the Okavanga Delta in hopes of viewing both area and local wildlife. I have to say, anyone ...

Gateway to the Okavango
Aug 31, 2009 (3 photos)

... and stopped for a lunch stop at a village selling salted fish and fruits. We drove all day to get to the large town of Maun and camped outside about 20mins along the road at a campsite called Sitatanga camp which sits by the river but was very dusty. Here ...

New Years Melan(al)c(o)holic
Dec 31, 2007 (10 photos)

... about 18C ... not too cold ... but we are acclimatised...   30th Dec - Wilderness Base Camp, Okavango Delta, Botswana, 18.9267S 22.4259E Alt 990m Into the wild ... but not out of coverage!! Keywords - Wilderness Bush Camping first ...

BOTSWANA ADVENTURE
Mar 8, 2007

... , next morning fly to Gaborone by 9 AM,.  Take flight to Maun 2 hours later.  In Maun, find it's very expensive to do anything in Botswana and especially if you are travelling alone.  At Audi Camp, seek out only tour group(Sunways) & ...

DONKEYS IN BOTSWANA
Aug 3, 2009 (48 photos)

... FACT – The flood waters in the Okavanga Delta come from the rainforests of Angola and take six months to reach Botswana.  Rivers in Maun were the highest in 30+years and some flowing for the very first time in those 30 years. THIS IS HOW CHEAP ...

2 days and 1 night in Savuti
Aug 22, 2006 (10 photos)

Full text is pending ... however ... be warned that there are tons of pics of lions because we were in the middle of a pride of 17 and the snaps just kept going ... It's not that I want to bore you with the sight of lions, but I want them saved onto ...

Etosha to Rundu to Maun
Aug 5, 2006 (3 photos)

... African mid-winter is wearing a bit thin now! OK, whinging over! ------------------------- The next day we crossed the Botswana border on our way to Maun and the Okavango Delta. Rundu is on one side of the Kavango River - Angola is on the other ...

First real Bush Camp
Sep 24, 2009

First real experience of camping without any fences separating them from us. After sun down Lisa and I headed to the toilet to get some water for washing up, I heard a rustling in the grass behind and went ti investigate.. no lions only a dam big brown ...

Part 1: Crossing the Bridge
Sep 1, 2009 (4 photos)

After a long day on the truck, we finally got to Maun, an area in Botswana where most safaris in the Okavango Delta go through. We set up the tents and got a very detailed and scary safety briefing about how dangerous the Delta can be. We agreed not to sue ...

Promenade en pirogue / Little tour on the water
Oct 20, 2004 (5 photos)

Après une journée passée à ne rien faire sinon relaxer complètement (ça fatigue de rouler comme ça). Je m'embraque pour un voyage de deux jours hors du temps. La pirogue, ou Mokoro en setswana) est un frêle esquif à coté des éléphants et autres hippopotames. Mais c' ...

New Year in the Okavango Delta
Jan 2, 2008 (11 photos)

Our next country after Zimbabwe was Botswana & the main highlight being the Okavango Delta, which is the biggest delta in the world.  It's basically a huge kind of marsh land with little channels running through it.  The only way through the ...