Blogs from Maun, North-West, Botswana, Africa - page 2

Kubu to Maun Kubu island was a amazing experience like the 360 degree view from the top of the island , the way you can see the curvature of the earth because it is so flat and best of all was the view from the toilet which was magnificent but unfortunately the campsites are too close together and the toilet is crap. The drive back to the main road was very long and dusty but it isn't just dust its "HOLY CRAP what did i do to deserve this" dust. Once we arrived found the main road the drive was calm and thankfully at 120KM/H unlike the 20KM/H on the dirt road. The main road was at least tarred but anybody that was driving behind could see nothing because of the huge dust trail that NASA ... read more

Well we managed to get to Cambridge from Moscow uneventfully although the last leg from Dusseldorf to Stansted was in an Air Berlin propellar plane which the pilot threw on the runway at Stanstead. Cambridge was fantastic. We visited James' 97 yr old mum who was just like him - independent obsessive kind and tuned in to everything happening. James organized for us to visit Newmarket Equine Hospital - a £10m facility with Arab sponsorship with every kind of machine money can buy including Catscans and MRI. We could not take pictures. I will try and load current pictures when I get to Ireland in 2 weeks.The flight to Joburg was uneventful. We got two seats each so slept a little on the 10hr flight. It was flying Air Botswana to Maun on the Okavango Delta ... read more

Dag allemaal ! Ik heb besloten deze travelblog stop te zetten ;-( Het is onmogelijk om hier in zuidelijk Afrika dagelijks op internet te gaan om te updaten + als er al een internetverbinding is , gaat het enorm traag! Internet hier is echt niet te vergelijken met dat bij ons in Europa. Een foto uploaden duurt zo ontzettend lang en dat brengt alleen maar veel tijdverlies met zich mee. Nu , ik heb wel een andere oplossing ; de blog van Tim Skelton , mijn reisleider op zijn webpagina .... www.saadventure.co.za Dus , sorry voor het falen van deze pagina , khad jullie thans graag op de hoogte gehouden , maar het gaat uiteindelijk de beste oplossing zijn voor jullie en mezelf ; jullie kunnen terecht op een professionele webpagina waarop alle info omtrent onze ... read more

I'm not quite sure where to start this blog, so I'll start in Botswana where I made the choice to go back to Victoria Falls 'the other way'... I'd visited the Zimbabwean side of the falls and wanted to go to the Zambian side on my way to Malawi, back east. From where I was in Maun, central/western Botswana, it's about 900kms and a days bus travel east and north. Easy. The other way, is via the Caprivi strip in Namibia, (west, north and east again) and although the distance is fairly similar, the lack of public transport means that travel times aren't guaranteed and hitch hiking is pretty much the only option. There were a number of times where I just missed something by a few minutes, or a few hours, that would've changed ... read more

“The journey not the arrival matters” T.S.Eliot(seems he might have been bitten by the travel as well as writing bug?).Now there is always something exhilarating about setting off on a new leg of a journey.There is the element of the unknown,new countryside to cast an eye over and who knows what awaits at the destination.But before getting anywhere in this World there is the little challenge of negotiating border posts.At the Mahembo border post we were effectively leaving Namibia behind and entering Botswana.This is probably the least busy border post anywhere on the planet and probably explains the friendly reception and hassle free stamping of passports and processing of bits of paper we experienced.An observation….the Botswana border posts are an absolute delight.They are clean,efficient and manned by friendly people who are genuinely excited to see people ... read more