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

Awoke in the morning with only a slight hangover...er....memory of the wine and the conversation from the previous night, and after some vitamins and juice started to pack to head out. As we started packing, the the little boy we met the day before came into Dani's house and sat down with us. Unlike the USA, most kids are not given much attention as they are growing up, and it was clear with this little boy that he was enjoying our company and our attention. We started taking bags to the truck, and he was right there with us, taking the smaller bags out along side Jerry. So. Adorable. When we were all packed up, and had said all our good-byes, this little boy ran to Dani, who picked him up to wave us goodbye. It ... read more

On Wednesday morning I woke up famished and began to charge all of my batteries…two batteries for each camera, my laptop, my berry, etc… Bruno drove me to the airport around noon only for me to arrive and realize I left my entire envelope of vouchers etc in the room!! A speedy drive back, which was only 5 or 10 minutes…Maun is a pretty small town. I met the rest of the group on the safari with me, and by group I mean one couple…older and from Sweden and really nice….Lena and Gert. I guess somewhere along their travels they had a bag stolen from them which included their visas and malaria pills…OOOOOPS! I think its all sorted out but that’s a big hiccup. We boarded the plane that would take us into the Okavango Delta. ... read more

Hello everyone from beautiful Botswana! After an unexciting night in Chobe, just across the boarder, we made our way through the Kalahari desert towards the Okavango Delta, in the northwest of the country. It is BAKING HOT here, we are absolutely dying with thirst all of the time and some people take that the wrong way, and just get drunk every night :). Not my way to deal with the heat, but there you go... On Wednesday morning we were picked up for a three day trip into the Okavango Delta. First a Jeep brought us through the desert to one of the arms of the delta. There local guides loaded canus with us and all our stuff and paddled deep into the delta (about an hour on the boats). The delta is a truly amazing ... read more

October 2005 After our brief initial stay in Zambia, we crossed to Botswana at the Kazangulu Ferry border crossing. The Zambian side of the border crossing on the Zambezi was chaos - queues of trucks, queues of people and queues of pretty much anything else you could care to mention. It didn’t seem conceivable that all these large trucks were going to get across the river on a couple of minuscule ferries and indeed as this is written, a copper truck rolled off a ferry at this very crossing a few days ago. It also didn’t seem a good bet that we were going to get across in a big hurry either. However as with the border formalities on arrival in Lusaka, the experienced guide obviously knew the processes, procedures, people and how to make that ... read more

It's a very different Africa. Not one of dust and sand and great fiery sunsets, but of the wettest desert on Earth. In the middle of dry land a great river spills out onto to the sands of the Kalahari Desert in the northern corner of Botswana to create an extraordinary watery jungle. Like an immense oasis surrounded by desert, the Okavango Delta is filled with mysterious waters, lush vegetation and entrancing wildlife. perfect settings for a luxury safaris The Okavango, "The river that never reaches the sea," flows south from the uplands of Angola winding it's way into Botswana, and then spreads out over the parched plain irrigating 6,000 square miles to create the largest inland delta on Earth. The area that was once part of Lake Makgadikgadi, an ancient lake that dried up some ... read more