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Botswana Slideshow
Botswana
Travel Blogs from Botswana
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 ...
Xugana Lodge: Part 1 - Going Up River
... system in the world. Fed by the wet season runoff from the highlands of Angola, the delta spreads out in northwestern Botswana into a maze of channels, islands, and lagoons - all disappearing into the sands of the Kalahari, its southern-most point around ...
"We All Live In A Wooden Submarine" - Botswana
Hi all - sorry its been a bit again. Been through Botswana and am now in Swapukmond, Namibia... so this post will be for both. In Botswana, we departed from Maun and headed on a 2 hours drive through the bush to the pickup point for the delta. At this ...
Trucking along
So, I'm still here - still alive, baking in the heat. Went to the a new Mall yesterday - the Broadhurst Mall (aka, the BBS Mall and the Broadhurst North Mall). I had high hopes, I'll admit! Took a cab from the Main Mall and asked the driver to go to ...
Ghanzi to Maun
Long drive to Maun, which is the gateway to the Okavango Delta. Next morning we were picked up at 7am in an open truck, and travelled for a chilly 90 minutes to the mokoro station on the Delta. On the way we passed the Buffalo Fence, which is ...
Mar 22, 2011
Our scariest animal encounter, day 5 in the wild
So here we were at our Eden paradise for 2 full days. I told you we didn't have to go far for game drives because the animals were actually IN our campsite, even during the day! This campsite had the most animals walking through of all the ...
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 ...
Victoria Falls and Chobe
... a blog because I've been on holiday traveling, and I was really looking forward to posting my dozens of photos from Zambia, Botswana and Namibia and writing about all the amazing things that Darryl and I did. That was before we got robbed at knifepoint ...
Dag 9:Nog ‘n lang stuk Namibie!
... melkskommels wat Erik die vakansie op die proef gestel het was hulle s'n ook die beste! Ons ruil ook sommer ons dollars om vir Botswana Pulas by die Thomas Cook Currency Exchange( dit is die enigte plek in Windhoek waar ons kon Pulas kry). Om 1h30 ry ons ...
Day 17-18 - Chobe N.P.
The arrival day into Chobe National Park was fairly uneventful. We spent most of the day on Ella driving out of Botswana, into Namibia, and then back into Botswana. We were all glad to reach camp at the end of this long haul. Sleep came early for ...
Fight, Fight, Fight
To be honest there are only so many game drives that a girl can do before becoming utterly complacent! By the time I got to Chobe all I wanted to see was animals, hunting, feeding or fighting, frankly there was no way I was getting out of bed at ...
Hooray - To Ihaha!!
11.50 (although it says 10.50 on the clock!) We had a bit of a problem this morning as we had the boats booked, one for 6.30 and one for 8 o'clock. This sounds fine, but what we didn’t know was that The Caprivi runs on Bots and SA time, so they are ...
Desvio para a Namíbia
Por Robson English version Esse post é parte integrante do Projeto 20°12', que tem como ...
Ghanzi
... Foxy previously fixed things in their own way which makes it that much more difficult for others to diagnose and fix. Crossing into Botswana was almost too easy. We were finished everything in under 30 minutes. No lineups, no fussy questions, no bribes ...
Camping under the stars - all 5 of them
... 's the serenity?' springs to mind. We were camping (and i humour myself when I say 'camping') in the Okavango Delta in Botswana. The delta is described as the jewel of the Kalahari - it's a tranquil and isolated oasis set in the desert. ...
Chobe National Park
We camped along the banks of the Chobe River. After arriving shortly after 11, from Namibia into Botswana, lunch was prepared and we were all ready to go on a game drive at Chobe National Park. At this point, I was too exhausted to be bothered with any ...
The Night of the Quelea Part 2 - Conclusion
... lined bush track, my face to the warm afternoon sun. I had my bandana on. I was the master of all I surveyed. Tom of Botswana... Tom? Tom? Hello? What can I say? The wind in your face and the African wilderness all around - the ultimate thrill ride. ...
Finally arrive in Botswana
Chobe Safari Lodge Our room is surprisingly large with sliding doors looking out to the Zambezi River. The brush by the river is thick enough to almost completey obscure the water but there are all kinds of warning signs to "Beware of Hippos". On ...
Thursday.
On Thursday my day started as it usually does. I got up, made a cup of tea, switched on the TV to watch the news while I drank my tea and before I had a shower and started my day. Then I saw that there was something wrong with the tubes so texted my ...
Safari Continued
Hello again ... Molly and I have made it safely out of the Africa bush, although there we times we weren't positive that would happen :) The picture is from the Moremi park in which as we were getting ready to do our evening game drive we had a visitor ...
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." ...
Visitors
Ok, I'm not actually in Khutse but that is the first place I went to with my mum and my cousin. We went there after just a couple of days in Gabs and spent two nights. Khutse is a little town (really tiny) just underneath the Kalahari and we stayed in ...
Music and Drama in the Delta
... Not a sight I'm soon to forget. We spent much of our time being poled around in Mokoros, the traditional dugouts of Botswana (though for the environment's sake the tourist canoes are now fiberglass molds). This allowed us to get deeper into the Delta ...
I wanted my HIPPO with mouth WIDE open photo shot
... but no luck! We had a 5.15 am wake up call for a 6 am departure to nearby Chobe National Park and a 3 hour game drive. After such a build up by travellers heading north and what our other Acacia group heading to Johannesburg saw on their previous ...
The adventure begins
... tiny little vilages by the side of the road and also further into the bush with these really nice little round traditional Botswana houses. It was nice, though not anything particularly astounding to see. For me the thrill was more to do with what we ...
Okavanga Delta
May 14th: Today started early again as we got picked up at 0700 and driven and hour and a half into the Okavange Delta National park to a local mokoro camp. Here we unloaded our supplies for the next two days, partnered up and found a mokoro driver. The ...
Primeiro dia em Botsuana!
Continuando o Projeto 20°12', chegou o dia de irmos ao próximo dos 12 países que pretendemos visitar até 2012: Botsuana. No dia 31/out acordamos sob uma forte chuva, fizemos check out do hotel (quase não fizemos porque a máquina do cartão de ...
Happy, belated, Easter!
My goodness! This place shuts down over Easter almost completely. Couldn't get online from Friday and now is the first time it's opened again. It's been a relaxing weekend with hardly any noise in the streets and no huge juggernauts going by, that ...