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Botswana Slideshow
Botswana
Travel Blogs from Botswana
Mokoros...what are those?
... our camp by mokoro and travelled back to the village of Seronga for our local tour. There we had a chance to experience a small Botswana village and meet some of the local people. We visited a really nice school and got to spend some time with ...
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 ...
Warthogs, Hippos, and Baboons.. Oh My!
... is keeping the food supply safe. Especially in a place that has basicly done away with fences. This is actually quite progressive. Botswana doesn't have a ton going for it except for diamonds and wild life. In an attempt to keep the wild life ...
Up The Lazy River
... , all the while with donkeys, goats, horses and elephants crossing it. Of course, it is flat as a pancake (topographers in Botswana must have the easiest job in the world). Initially there are many trees, quite a habitat for elephant, and this ...
Lots of Elephants
... the road to our campsite, and we had the option of doing a boat cruise on the Chobe River (which marks the border between Botswana and Namibia). So we piled into the minibus and went to our waiting small river boat. We cruised along the river as the ...
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 ...
Into Botswana
... ZIM the weather hadn’t been to hot but now at Vic Falls it was a lot hotter and would stay that way through Botswana & Namibia, so I went looking for some sandals or thongs around town to no avail. Even the shoe shop didn’t have anything ...
Encounter Africa
... food and supplies in the stores, and the attitude of the people was noticeably more relaxed. It was in our first camp in Botswana that our group was robbed. This was the only place on our trip that this happened and fortunately Ben and I had signed ...
Maun (ma-oon): land of 4x4's
After another good night's sleep, we packed up and went into Ghanzi town to gas up. There, we met two friends who were motorbiking from Luanda, Angola to Lusaka, Zambia. We also met Kozi, a 23 year old Japanese hitchhiker who was taking 5 years to ...
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. ...
Botswana
Since Swakopmund, we've left the desert and been through Etosha National Park on safari and have recently entered Botswana. The weather here is very wet and humid as it's the middle of the rainy season. Complete contrast to everything so far. ...
Oct 09, 2011
Graceland
We are certain Paul Simon visited the Okavango Delta in Botswana before releasing the Graceland album. 10,000 years ago Lake Makgadikgadi dried up and left behind what is the world's largest inland delta. The Okavango river no longer has an outlet to ...
Trans-Khalihari-Namibia-South Africa Round Trip
A Wittmann Road Trip - across the Khalihari to Namibia, overnight in a surprise luxury private game reserve, down the coast of the northern and western cape of South Africa to Cape Town. Spent the week with Darry Vine and at the FIGO meeting, then on the ...
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
Not long after returning to solid 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 ...
First Few Days
Wow, first couple of days. Getting of the plane at Gabarone airport was quite something - it is completely open with a tiny building for arrivals and departures. We came from Jo'burg in a small plane and just walked off it straight on to the ...
Getting lost!
It was inevitable really! Went to the university again - went yesterday for the first time, beautiful, and my supervisor and I tried to walk back to our guest house. We thought we were doing very well! Until we realised we had come to the River Walk ...
Shambles In the Okavango Delta
Ali v Foreman in Zaire may have been called the “Rumble in the Jungle” but our Okavango experience could be called the “Shambles in the Delta”. It certainly wasn't the most organised part of the trip. Up in the morning and onto ...
De retour au bureau / Back to the office
Je suis plutôt content d'être de retour à Kang. J'aime bien ce petit coin d'enfer. La vie y suit son propre rythme. Les problèmes que nous avons avec les instruments à bord de l'avion ne font rien pour améliorer ce sentiment... Ou si peu. On se ...
Botswanaaa
Following on from Zimbabwe, we crossed the border to Botswana on the monday 18th April. Our first port of call was Chobe National Park which holds all different kinds of wild animals including the big 5. We went on a very early morning game drive the next ...
Along the Chobe River
This was our third time at the Cresta Mowana Safari Lodge. It is beautifully located along the Chobe River and a short walk takes you to beautiful views. There is even a walk where warnings are posted to keep on the lookout for ...
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 ...
deuxième jour à Chobe
Réveil difficile à 6h20 pour un départ théorique à 6h30. Je m'éjecte hors de la tente, laissant derrière moi un JF ronchon (comme souvent les matins et les soirs à cause de la tente, du lever précoce, et quand c'est qu'on rentre à Paris...). ...
Back to real life
This morning we woke up very early and headed out to the Vic Falls hotel reception to see about a late check-out due to our life coming for us at three, which was fine and at no extra charge - woohoo! And also to find a secluded spot for us to take the ...
GrrrrrrrrAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Today has been the singularly most frustrating day EVER!. Ok, well perhaps I'm getting that a little bit out of proportion but AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH just the same. It started out ok, apart from us spending an hour on a mind-numbingly slow computer ...
Delta Dawn
... is formed by the Okavango River which floods down from the Angolan highlands once a year and fans out into northwestern Botswana in a meandering complex network of channels, deep still pools (where crocodiles and hippos lurk), secret waterways (where ...
Namibian village walk
... intricate they were and when they could not meet our request for more, I realized they were quite authentic. After crossing back to Botswana we rested for a half hour and then we were off on our own private fishing trip on the Zambezi. Later we found ...