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Captain’s log star date 0906251108M. We had enjoyable space time transfer in homeostasis (thank you Craig) and have returned to our home planet to discover strange white crystalline H2O scattered broadly across terra firma. Putting on additional thermal protection suits we are slowly adjusting to local conditions. We may have to strap our feet…
Burp 12 Returned to Selepswe for the night. Again we got personal service from the lovely staff. The first night I tried the local delicacy ‘swana beef’ which is boiled beef pounded until it is shredded like a pulled pork. It was very tender and the locals consume high levels of meat so servings are…
Yesterday was a long drive to Selepswe Resort. Lovely new resort well away from anything and empty. Two lovely staff to look after us plus grounds keepers, etc. I don’t know how any of these accommodation providers stay in business, possibly subsidised by the Botswanan government to promote tourism for when the diamonds run out?…
We left Maun yesterday having had 2 wonderful quiet days. We found a restaurant that served real coffee and visited it twice but that was all! Yesterday morning it was another early start to go flying over a small part of the Okavango Delta. Lovely to see it from the air to get an appreciation…
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.…
BURP 8 Mwandi view another lovely tented chalet on poles on the river banks. Beautiful sun set on the river. Chobe Big Five Chalet on the river banks – 2 nights. First night sunset cruise. We took a river cruise on the Chobe around Sedudu Island. Hippos, elephants swimming, crocodiles, water monitors, etc. But honesty…
Well, it has been a few exciting and some stressful days since James last blog which I think finished with us cruising the Okavango Delta last Wednesday. We ended the evening with dinner ( the meals have all been wonderful- gone is the diet!) followed by a demonstration of singing and dancing by the female…
We left Ghanzi and drove 350 km to the Okavango Delta. On NZ quality roads at 120km/hr which is the speed limit here, this would take around 3 hrs. There was an extremely heavy rainy season just ended and the northern half of the trip had massive potholes everywhere to the point that there were…
Joy says I should add more photos of the Kalahari bush walk. So here they are ‘Internet is everywhere- it’s all around you. You can do it from home’ Learning about bush medicine This is the treatment to improved fertility! Smoke starts about 20 seconds into the process (if you know what you are doing!)
Went for a quiet sunset drive around the camel park (about 10sq km in size)looking for zebras which apparently live there, but they were hiding. But what were not hiding was a skulk of 4 African foxes which we were able to photograph. Staff at the park were not aware that these foxes were around!…
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