Mondior Summit Gaborone

... dry. Too hot for Alex that J! As I was taking a picture, a young guy approached me, asking me where I was from, then tried to speak French but it wasn&#8217;t the French I know as I could not understand him! He wanted me to look at his art and was then obviously trying to sell it to me - I simply refused and he did not insist.<br><br>I took the same bus back and I was sat next to a lady called Pacan (probably wrong spelling but phonetically it works), she does some ...

... off &#8220;Oh the French, they stink and like frogs&#8221;. She was off course joking but I thought &#8220;Oh no, another one of those!&#8221;. She is a South African, married to a British guy who is an IT director for Microsoft. Syndie is actually a writer who travels around the world doing freelance for various publishing house like National Geographic for example. At the moment she is doing writing a fictional novel based on her real experiences which is why she is in Botswana ...

... towards campers, the only campground we found being the Kalahari Rest Camp mentioned in my previous post - run by South African expats. However, I'm positive the north of Botswana, where most of the tourist action happens, has an ampler choice. In the end, of all places, we wind up tired as hell in front of some lion park-cum-amusement park 12Kms south of Gabs that might accommodate us when the manager clocks in in the ...

... to get a Bots SIM card. Finally sorted we set off for the park 115 km north with the last 45 being sand - what an understatement. We fell off the end of the gravel into a wide sea of deep, deep sand with many tracks but no obvious route. So tyres back down and all lockers on we went for it on the basis that everybody else had done it. 3rd high most of the time kept up the momentum with an occasional 2nd for the extreme bits - the Land Rover &amp; I enjoyed ...

Oh man, here we go! Today is the day that real life begins. We went to our first class at UB this morning, but evidently it's sort of tradition not to go to class the first week. Besides Sarah, Nate, and I, only one other guy showed. Even the lecturer didn't come. We left our 9AM class at 9:15 and went over to the IT center to get information on how to connect to the internet in our rooms. INFORMATION OBTAINED!!! We got ...

... settlement in Gaborone, and probably in Botswana as well. It should be noted that it isn't nearly as bad as the slums of South Africa or other neighboring countries, but it is nonetheless shocking, especially superimposed as it is next to so many prosperous parts of Gaborone. We visited it to meet a man who runs an outreach program there. He grew up in Old Naledi and was able to get out and get a good education. Afterward, he ...

... in huge. We started the trip by going into the delta on boats called Makoro's (not sure if that's the right spelling), which are hollowed out tree trunks converted into cheap and very unsturdy gondola type things that you get poled along in by the locals. They were well chilled out and it took us 2 hours to get to camp in them, saling through the reeds with nothing to do but relax in the morning sun. We camped in the delta for 2 nights, completely facility free. We shat in ...

... proposal for the eco-park launch. Basically it is a document that we will be sending to all the companies who we think may be willing to sponsor ST for the launch of our 'eco-park'. It provides details of all the components of the park as well as an introduction to the ST organization and a budget for the event. It is obviously very important as we are competing with other NGO's for funding. I am basically putting this together (from a draft version) so have very much been thrown ...

... close, even to the babies. I hope I got some great shots I can show you. Terry (the owner) was a hell of a character, and I think it's safe to safe changed all of our lives a little, which is not something many people can say!! He's very kindly invited me to stay with him next time I'm in Jo'berg and I think we'll be talking business... watch this space. So today I arrived in Cape Town. The first thing that hit me was how ...

... bsp; &a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;n bsp; &a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;n bsp; &a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;n bsp; &a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;n bsp; &a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;n bsp; In Savuti at Chobe National Park, see many animals including tons of elephants, malibu, wildebeest and wild dogs. Search for the elusive cheetah and leopard but ...