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Sunset cruise and to be honest from a wildlife perspective it was a repeat of the morning, just with a sunset. I love being out on the water though so I oved it in any case. When we got back to the village the bubble run was on. Credric explained it was catfish moving down the river on mass...

The boat trip took a bit longer than expected and we got back just in time for our optional 30 minute helicopter flight. Six of us had put our hands up but a last minute addition pushed it to seven, meaning three flights, one with three and two with two. After some discussion the first three...

Back on the big boat and more croc and bird spotting. Cedric was a bit fixated on the beautiful, and numerous, fish eagles. We stopped on an island where the lodge’s chef and assistant chef had set up a very excellent lunch. They had also constructed a very funny bushy bushy that everyone...

Then it was time for the Okavango tourist staple - the mokoro ride. The rides are no longer in timber mokoros as there just aren’t enough trees to keep replacing them every five or so years. They are now fibreglass. We were allocated our polers - ours was Mike - and after getting ourselves...

Our full day started with another spectacular sunrise. View from our room Buffet breakfast by the river bank then onto the boat for a 90 minute trip along the river to our mokoro ride. Lots and lots of birds and crocs kingfishers herons water monitors drongos egrets, darters, fish...

At least we saw our first ostriches, and then a couple of zebra. It seemed like it took forever but eventually we arrived at Swap Stop, situated right on the banks of the Okavango Delta. Beautiful! Swamp Stop – Your Gateway to the Okavango Delta Our local guide Cedrrrrrrrrrric (he hilariously...

Lots of interesting communities and small villages. Lots of beautiful houses with high fences made of thin sticks/branches. Some are mud brick, some are thatch, some tin. Some village groups have small market gardens. It is so dry and they must be very difficult to keep alive. We stopped in a...

542km drive - terrible gravel at the end A very long day of driving on some very ordinary roads to Swamp Stop, Okavango River Camp Botswana. It was an interesting drive to our next destination. We needed to drive out of Botswana into Namibia, along the Zambezi Region (previously known as the...

Tue, 6 Aug Of course another early start with bags out at 6:30. Same excellent breakfast spread but no fancy juice so we just had the bubbles on its own. bye warthogs the business end of the truck

Amazing!! We sat outside in the cold at Desert Camp and were just mesmerised. Shooting stars. Satellites. The Milky Way just incredible.

Sitting here at a lovely restaurant in Simon’s Town having lunch on the last day of our amazing trip. We just went and saw the penguins at Boulders Beach. Our tour was sold as three and four star and Swampstop was definitely the three star. We had no issue with the food and the staff were all...

Dinner was a la carte in the Bush Lodge restaurant. Medium rare kudu. Delicious.

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Lunch by the not at all tempting (bloody cold) pool. more mongooses although mongeese sounds way better An all inclusive Chobe River cruise was the late afternoon activity. The elephants had already left and made their way up into the bush. ‘Just’ buffalo, hippos, cross and lots of...

After that the rest of the morning was a bit of an anticlimax, if seeing animals you'd dreamed of seeing could be described as that. More elephants, kudo, impala, giraffes. What a morning! hotel warthogs We had the rest of the morning and early afternoon to ourselves. Sat down near the river...

Marcus said to us there would be less animals than there were the afternoon before but told us to be prepared for the unexpected. We sure got that. Lots of buffalo down on the river flats. Then Marcus told us there was a pride of lions down as as well. I think we eventually spotted six spread...

Early breakfast. An excellent buffet. We poured a couple of mimosas - low alcohol bubbles and fresh juice - to kick off our second safari. It was cool, definitely puffer cool. We chose to go with Marcus again. We were all handed a blanket and then when we got to the park entrance, a bottle of...

Great buffet for dinner including our first meals of game meat, kudu and impala. Yum. Mishek had organised for the staff to sing happy birthday and present bAlt with a cake (a cup cake), Botswana style. It was magical.

big five, tick The beautiful sunset started before we left the park and it continued until well after we got back to the lodge, but not before another lion, that got uncomfartably close behind our vehicle. What a crazy introduction to Chobe just like on a cruise ship!

lion number 1 leopard with anotehr in the tree above that we couldn't get a look at due to some inconiderate private tourists who would not move their vehicle lions two. three, four, five and I think six the national bird of Botswana, the kori bustard