Apologies, not much excitement today. We are thoroughly enjoying our break from the road for a few days. We did venture out this morning. Detaching the Caranex and leaving it, looking a bit forlorn, but safe, at the campsite. It is a 10 km ride into the centre of Maun.…
These towns come with baggage. Rowdy neighbours and people. Still, there are benefits. Watery wifi and people of similar outlook to chat with. So, apart from relaxing and talking Land Rovers with our fellow travelers for an hour of so this morning, we have not done too much. We have…
Well, it was an interesting night. Outside Poki we could hear elephants stripping the leaves and small branches from the trees all around us. I suppose this is the experience we are paying so handsomely for. Pula 1038 or GBP60. The most expensive campsite we have ever had, and only…
By 7am we were up and while breakfasting, could hear the marvelous, deep grumblings of Hippopotami nearby. We were packed and on the road (track) by 9am. A 64k drive to our next destination. Xakagaxa which sounds like Kakananga. I am sure you guessed it already…:) Passing through the North…
Savuti to Mbabe South Gate. Chobe National Park I didn’t sleep well. I kept lying awake listening for the lions which are supposed to come to the SKL campsite during the night. They didn’t come though. We were up early at 7am and then lions could be heard roaring, not…
A disturbed night. A Defender from Zimbabwe pulled into the camp at around 9pm and it took them an age to set up camp and settle for the night. There were two other families with very young children, one of which woke around 2.30am and the parents paid it no…
On the road by 9.30, we had about 130 kms to travel to the Namibia/Botswana border at Ngoma. Apart from a short 6km stretch, it was all tar seal. The villages en route are all very well kept. Mainly mud brick with immaculate thatched roofs, but some of the larger…
First up, Happy Birthday Wendy. Breakfast in bed and gift wrapped Channel #5 from Mike? 🙂 We would have been away from the camp by 9.30am this morning, only I managed to pump water into our water tank space, instead of in the tank, so that took some cleaning out…
Okacuito River Camp As it was a lot of driving yesterday, we decided we would take it easy today, so this morning we weren’t rushing. After packing up we had a chat with our neighbours, a family group from South Africa. Last night they had said they would give us…
Today has been a driving day. Not a lot to see or visit along the way, until we hit the town of Rundu. It has been 320k’s of hard slog into a strong head wind along boring very straight sealed, road.Sealed that is till 8k’s from our present camp site.…