Thursday was a long drive. We left Senyati Safari Park and headed to Gweta Village 400km distant. The first 300km of road were some of the best we have travelled on with very long straight stretches. One stretch was about 30km with no bends! Many many heavily laden trucks on the road which borders Zimbabwe. Some evidence of spectacular crashes – single trucks involved so we reckon the drivers fall asleep. The last truck was carrying white paint and was still half over the road with white paint everywhere.
A lot of trucks seem to be coming or going from SA to Zambia. That railway idea was a good one. Pity it didn’t happen. The last 100k we were back to pothole disasters.
Driving is all sorts of interesting. We had a herd of Blue Wildebeest cross the road in front of us, an elephant wandering along the roadside, heaps of giraffes feeding along the roadside and spoonbills
Now for confession time – I left my iPad 400km away in Senyati. So lots of trouble for people to get it back to me. James has been very forgiving 🙄
Up at 6.00 for a 1.5 hr bone chilling drive to Nxai Game Park entrance from Gweta on the back of a 4x4truck, then two hr drive to the centre of the park on kidney rearranging and filling shaking drive over the roughest roads we have ever been on.
New animals seen
Steenbok antelope
Jackals
Bustard ( large bird)
Wildebeest
Springbok antelope
Oryx antelope
Followed by a further 30 min drive to see Botswana’s biggest baobab tree and salt pan. We had lunch there then returned the same way to Gweta – another 3 hrs driving, making an almost 12 hr day. Not sure it was worth it 🙁
Saturday was supposed to be a visit to Meerkat Colonies but after yesterdays shake up we chose to cancel for a restful morning followed by a 300 km drive to Maun (second largest city). Roads on this section were extremely good and mostly 120km limit. One long section began with an 80km limit, but after no sign of human habitation and no open road sign, Joy decided to reset cruise control for open road. Flagged down by Police, she was given a warning for speeding! ‘I’m sorry Officer, I didn’t realise’, it pays to be the dumb blonde sometimes! Apparently it was a wildlife area so speed was restricted. Following this, several elephants were seen grazing roadside – less than 20m from edge of road.
Today is a respite day and we are relaxing- Joy getting her nails done and I’m having a Swedish massage. Just walking by the Spa when staff warned about the snake sunning itself on a fence post. All snakes in Africa seen to be venomous apart from pythons. This one was quite small but apparently the are able to jump so I stayed a couple of metres away.
Botyburps 
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