Blogs from North-West, Botswana, Africa - page 10

Prior to beginning this blog I have a couple of corrections from previous blogs and status updates: My apologies, it is the buffalo which is found in Africa, the water buffalo is in Asia. Sorry Worthingtons!As previously updated we camped by the banks of the Ovkavango river. I feel I should confess that we didn’t actually camp that night. In Etosha I was beginning to get sick and grumpy so we made the tough decision to upgrade to a lodge room for $25 for a good shower and good nights sleep required to maintain our sanity -- this may not have been the last time we took the comfy option either, more on that later! I would also ... read more

In Botswana erstreckt sich die Landschaft schier endlos zu allen Seiten. Hügel oder gar Berge sieht man so gut wie nicht. Buschland so weit das Auge reicht, Straßen die kilometerlang geradeaus führen und alle paar Stunden mal eine kleine Stadt. Manch einer würde sagen, wie langweilig das sein muss. Aber ich kann das nicht behaupten. An den Straßenrändern steht Vieh, wie Ziegen, Esel, Kühe und Pferde. Ab und zu laufen Menschen über die Straße oder ein Buschtaxi, bestehend aus einer Karre die von Eseln gezogen wird, karrt kreuz und quer vor einem her. Es gibt viel zu sehen. Man muss nur aufmerksam schauen. Die Reise führt direkt in das Okavango-Delta. Auf dem Weg dorthin werden die Straßen immer schlechter: Aus einer Dreckstraße wird eine Dreckstraße mit großen Löchern und daraus wird dann eine Dreckstraße mit großen ... read more

We arranged our Delta tour through a group called Tribes Travel in the UK. We happened upon them online and they have been tremendously helpful at setting up our trip albeit a little expensive. Our trip (and budget) allowed for a total of 8 nights and abour 9 days and two countries. We flew into Livingstone, Zambia which along with Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe are the towns that border the mighty Victoria Falls. In the wet season at the peak of high water the falls become a 1.3km continuous sheet of water, the longest in the world. November is the dry season which means the animals are clustered around water and easier to see however it also means that the falls are not very impressive. We have pictures from our microlight flight on a CD but ... read more

M – Next stop Chobe National Park! Chobe is known for its elephants. Indeed there are estimated to be 120,000 elephants in Chobe. If you have read Kate’s blog on Etosha then you know that this isn’t exactly a selling point in Chobe’s favour for her! Hence we decided to take our friends advice and, rather than undertake a land safari, base ourselves on the river at Kasane enjoy the park from the water. The river in question is the Zambezi which after it passes through Kasane continues a 100km or so to form Victoria Falls (my next blog). Kasane is a lively African town with pretty good facilities (bars, restaurants and supermarkets) and is well worth a stopover. As such we used it as our base for Chobe and a day trip to Vic Falls. ... read more

We travelled on our overland truck from Zambia to Botswana. The border took ages - again! We went to a place called Kasane in the Chobe National Park. After we had set up our tents and had lunch we went on a river cruise on the Chobe river. It was awesome! We saw elephants, hippos, crocodiles, buffalos, waterbucks and lots of birds. And we saw a fabulous sunset. The next morning we had to be up mega early - 5am - to leave for a game drive at 5.45am. We were hoping to see lions but sadly not! :( We did see giraffes, hippos, warthogs and thousands of impalas! And it was freezing!!! After that we hit the road again and were off to our next campsite in the National park called Planet Bao Bab. It ... read more