Francistown Hotels - Reviews and Rates

24/11/2008 went back to the hotel after updating my internet stuff for free in livingstone, and waited for the overland truck meeting at 6pm, was a bit concerned that it was only me there for it, but then found one other girl, she had flown from Sydney, to jo burg, to Victoria fgalls,Zimbabwe, where we were origionally meant to meet, and then it...

cross the boarder from SA to Botswana with no problem. My passport wasn't stamped in South Africa so the first entry for this trip is Botswana. This was to get around the problems with apartite. Botswana is FLAT. Even for a boy from the praries. just not used to the red dirt. We could get cold beer and the stores were well stocked. next day we t...

We left Livingstone, Zambia to continue the safari of Botswana. I said goodbye to 8 travel mates and welcomed 8 new ones. We crossed the Kazungula ferry into Botswana - uneventful border crossing - and headed to Francistown via Kasane (pronounced Ka-saa-neeee). The roads were amazing to our 1st campsite ... Tar all the way with no bumps! The ope...

I know, I know! I haven't written anything for ages but really nothing great of note has happened until recently (and now I'm also doing some serious backdating - it's actually Friday the 13th - eeeek! - but I figured that a few backdated entries would be infinately preferable to one huge monster of an entry that would take three years to read, ...

Oil is as important in Saudi Arabia as it is in a VW engine. Twoey seemed to be in denial though and was constantly leaking oil all over the place forcing us to fill up every few days. As we entered Botswana we dutifully filled her up again and then just 300 km down the road... loss of power, splutter, splutter, stall, smoke... - yip, you guesse...