Mashatu Main Camp Mashatu Game Reserve

... southeast corner where Botswana meets Zimbabwe and South Africa. Part of the journey took us yet again through veterinary gates and police checkpoints and onto a sandy road through the game reserve. The Tuli Block is famous for its Tuli Elephants and the damage that elephants can do to vegetation is very much in evidence here. Still the landscape is more appealing to us as there are hills and valleys, unlike the central area of Botswana where it is ...

... even slower line to get into Botswana, where a lady in a bumblebee costume went sauntering across. Remember, we're in the middle of nowhere. Fantastic. We made the 4 p.m. cutoff by 30 minutes, but knew there were heaps of folks behind us. We later heard that South Africa agreed to keep their border open until 5, but Bots really wanted to go home at 4 - risking the chance of folks being stuck between countries. I'm sure it would never happen.....mostly. <br><br>Our first camp ...

so ich bin zwar schon allerdings in melbourne, aber ihr sollt wenigstens noch ne info ueber south africa und dem letzten project bekommen :) ES WAR TOLL !!!!! bilder kommen nun auch von beiden projekten....bin zu faul um es zu trennen :)

... A BAOBAB The next two nights we stayed at a friend of my guide's on their 5000acre "farm". I slept out under a giant baobab under the stars, while I heard jackals and baboons, among other creatures of the night. Magic! Well, here's some more photos. It takes me about 10min each to upload these!!! After this, I'll be at Kruger National Park till the 17th, then "self-driving" with a ...

... to be less than SA. We arrive at Nata at the Bird Sanctuary and enjoy the ample camp ground with good, but simple installations: http://www.botswanatourism.co.bw/attrac tions/nata_bird_sanctuary.html The next day we enjoy a nice round trip though this part of the pan and the salt lake. Good to have a 4x4 as the piste is quite sandy.

... day - a conventional coach taking about 5 1/2 hours costing P51 (At the time of writing there are c. P12.5 to the Pound; the US$ is 2 to the Pound) Francistown is a dusty junction town; I found the Metcourt Lodge - classic motel type comfort with TV, a/c and even free wifi internet with access restricted to google and therefore gmail - great.. P380 The Lodge has an adjacent steakhouse - another T-bone - life's a drag.

Happy new year everybody..... Well my christmas and new year was Wack. On both nights i was tucked up in bed by 10 o'clock bored out of my brain. No drinking games, karaoke etc, and no turkey! For our xmas dinner we had a thing called pookey(i,m sure poo was the key to it), basically guinee fowl and other stuff boiled in a cauldron for 2 days on a fire. The end result looked like poo and puke, and it didnt taste much diffrent. For some reason we had this on xmas eve and opened ...

olaho, Well its still stinking hot here (40 dgrees everyday this week!), i,m starting to see why other people in south africa call this place Hell. went out for kind of crimbo drink up the other day in alldays!! What a night, peter,jane and me! Shawny couldnt or didnt want to go as his black and a black man in the plume is nothing compared to this place. He tried to go once before and someone pulled a gun on him just for being black and in the same bar ...

Hello there, Well today was all of the staff's last day and also my goodbye to them, i wont be here when they come back after crimbo. A bit sad really as i,m going to miss all of them. They are all quiet a big part of my day. I,m definitly going to miss Lucas(chef) and the maid's, as without there bubbley personality's i,m not going to enjoy waking at 5 in the morning! I used to walk in the kitchen first thing, lucas would make me some ...