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Banded brothers,hippo rafts and Leopard napping
Next day was a free day and we opted for two optional tours, a river safari in the morning and an afternoon game drive. We were hoping to increase our chances of seeing more animals and we were not disappointed.
As there were only about a dozen of us on the morning boat trip we had a smaller boat and our pilot and guide was Lungu who had …
SAFARI!!
So after breakfast at the Azambezi Lodge our pickup arrived to take up to the border of Botswana and Zimbabwe.We picked some other travelers and we headed to the Botswana border where I got another lovely stamp on my passport and found our pickup who would take us to our accommodation in Chobe, Botswana.
Mowana Safari Lodge I would rate as one …
Savuti to Chobe
... At the airstrip we waited for our larger plane (15 seater – with 2 pilots) and spoke to a guide who had a GPS. The coordinates of the Savuti airstrip were 18.31 South, 23.39 East. And 944 m above sea level. I was interested to compare it with the latitude of Mackay. The flight was good and a full plane. The view from the plane was unusual as we seemed to follow a fault line where on one side the land was very brown and dry and on ...
Botswana Day 2
... at night to watch tv & points out one hut with a satellite dish LOL. We get to visit one of the locals courtyards & she poses for us. We buy a carving on the way out as a way of giving back after letting us into their lives. The sun is out & the walk back is horrendous! Even our guide is mopping his brow (stupid thing to do in the middle of the day). Back through immigration twice (quickly this time) & were dropped back at ...
Elephant Filled Sunset...
... or lazing around the swimming pool.
The sunset cruise left about 3pm, so we made sure that we had cooked up a feast on the bbq before packing our cooler bag and setting off. We met a Zimbabwean guy that was also staying at the lodge and very handily was an expert in bird watching. We caught a truck to the launch spot then got aboard the barge basically sorted a chair and off we went. Namibia on one side and Botswana on ...