Maun Botswana, Botswana

Up at 5:30 for tea and cereal before heading off for what was a very long 6 hour game walk. Very cool indeed, the highlights were getting within about 15m from a giraffe and 5m from an elephant. The elephant eventually started flapping it ...

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... we arrived in Nata, our lunch spot. Thinking back in the whole 5 hours I only remember passing through one small village. Botswana is so sparsely populated. 1.6m people in a country the size of France! We did however spot wildlife on route, elephant, ...

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... travel guide they will tell you to Visit all the popular sites and see some wild life. If you really want to see Botswana and experience it from a local¡¦s point of view I recommend you travel with the locals. I departed Gabarone at 6am Monday morning ...

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... funny to see a bushman smoke modern day cigarettes. The following day we went into the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana for a two-night bush-camping excursion using traditional dugout canoes called a 'mokoro'. Each mokoro had a poler who ...

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