Blogs from Botswana, Africa - page 61

Hi all Sorry this is minus photos but everythign is veryslow here and I'm not able toupload photos at present. Everything has gone really well and Namibia was greaat!!! Botswana has many similarities to Namibia but it is also very different. We're on our way tomorrow to the Okavango delta and have come into Maun to do our last minute shopping. Will probably get back to the blog when we get to Vic Falls! Love Lucy ... read more

After all the thrills and spills of Victoria falls we moved into Botswana, where the pace didn't really slow down. Botswana is famous for the Okavango Delta, a huge number of small waterways that move through reeds, with a great number of wide life in a concentrated area. We were taken through these waterways by Mokoro, or hollow canoes by the local people where we set up camp for 2 nights. As we arrived at our camp, there were 4 bull elephants grazing on the grass only 30 metres away!! We went for a guided walk with one of the locals around our camp and came across elephants, giraffes, zebra and came across a small lake with about 20 hippo wallowing in. They were very close to the waters edge where we were standing, and made ... read more

Left Victoria Falls on the 30th. Said our good byes to Elissa and Greg as they were both leaving the tour and welcomed our new travelling buddies, Lindsey, Helen, Julie, Karl and Denis. Crossed the border over into Botswana which didn't take us too long. It was great to be in a new country and out of Zimbabwe as all the shops had shelves with food on! A great luxury to be back to delicious food and meat! Stayed at a campsite with a pool which was a nice surprise especially as it was so hot! Hannah was also surprised when she saw her sister there who is also touring Africa, but with a different tour company. Our main activity in Botswana was spending 3 days and 2 nights in the Okavango Delta. We took our ... read more

It is time for another update... In Zanzibar we stayed in two separate places. The first place was Stonetown where a major slave trade used to be held, and the other place was Northbeach. In Stonetown all the females had to cover up to down below their knees and their shoulders (Yet they still sold bikinis there?!) We didn't do that much there, we walked around the spice, fish, meat and vegie markets, and ate at one of the night markets where the main dish was some form of seafood. The following day we went on a spice tour on our way up to Northbeach. We were taken through the spice groves and given some plant/berry/bark and told to guess what it was. None of us did a really good job of that. We were then ... 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