M – The series of photos that follow are of a pride of lions moving through the bush and crossing the road in front of a growing group of tourists led by a Lioness. What was again amazing to me was how the lions give absolutely no indication at all that they know us tourists are amongst them other than to walk nonchalantly around our parked vehicles. They obviously can both see and smell us but at no time did a single lion give any acknowledgement of our presence other than a general stare in our direction. Again the silent communication between the members of the pride was fascinating as they took it in turns to move through the bush keeping a sentry posted at the front and rear during the movements. To answer the question ... read more

M – After we left Vic Falls we took a couple of days to drive down through Botswana back to the border with South Africa. As I mentioned in an earlier block on the Okavango Panhandle, having already had a great Mokoro trip into the Delta from its North West corner we planned to avoid the touristy Maun and were able to make good time going south by avoiding the 300km detour westward that most tourists who visit the Delta from Maun have to make. The road from Kasane to the South through Francistown is a little pot holed but compared to some of the gravel roads in Namibia it was bliss! What did cause a little stress though were the Food Checkpoints! Just like the Red Line in Namibia, Botswana has Police/Agricultural checkpoints to prevent ... 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

M - Its not often you get to visit a country like Angola so it was with great excitement that we boarded a ferry to take the car across the river to Angola. Only joking, just wanted to see if Steve (the owner of our vehicle ) was reading the blog! We did get though get pretty close, our camp site near Rundu on the edge the Caprivi Strip literally overlooked the Zambesi river that is the boarder between Namibia and Angola. Apparently its common for tourists to take a fishing trip on the river and then touch down on the other side 'visit' Angola. We decided that jumpoing out on the other side wasn't really worthy of a pin in the map so declined and enjoyed the view of Angola from our camp. In Namibia ... read more

M – Having seen a group of lions devouring their breakfast on our first day we were now trying to top that experience by actually seeing an actual kill. On day 2 we rounded a corner and pulled up yards from this group of lions. We sat no more that 15 yards behind them in our car and watched as one by one they walked away and over the brow of a nearby hill. During the whole time they didn’t even glance in our direction nor did we see them make any obvious signals between each other as to when it was a particular lions turn to go forward. After they had all moved on we drove on a little and followed them over the hill. On the other side of the hill was a large ... read more