Okavango River Lodge Maun
on the river Maun, Botswana
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The honey moon is over
So we're in Botswana now and it is completely different to South Africa. As Ashley likes to say, we're in 'real Africa' now. Animals all aver the sides of the roads, women carrying things on there heads and villages of mud huts all over. Even the big cities don't feel modern. The bus ride from Gabarone to Maun was a very interesting 10 hours. It …
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Dancing With Elephants In The Dark
... had run out), so we only had an hour to shower, change, cook, eat, clean and re-pack before we jumped on the bus and headed off. It's non-stop. This time the internet cafes and shops were all buzzing, and we managed to upload a couple of photos before our internet time ran out. Most of the group headed off to the airport to do a flight over the delta, while we did some shopping to replenish the stocks. There had been mutterings from Shumba that he couldn't get into the camp that ...
Thunder over the Kalahari
... Maun supermarket dressed in a Santa hat wandering round singing "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow". Bet she's never seen it. Or the petrol tanker driver pulling a double tanker with a magazine spread out over the steering wheel, reading as he drove. The campsite at Sitatunga was another 10km further on, and for a paltry sum we treated ourselves to a cabin, in anticipation of a rough couple of nights ahead in the ...
Maun
... to have green grass on the other side of the fence. So food is for everyone an important part of the day. More often than not, I am on dishes duty, which I prefer, because in 5 minutes they are done, as compared to the kids trying to cook something on the tiny burners that often tip or run dry. Fabyan is on ice packs duty. We are trying to get organised now and have started asking the campsite kitchen if they can freeze them for us. Freeze is a big word as ...


