Botswana

After two months of traveling South Africa, from Cape Town to Kruger Park, I still wasn’t ready to leave the region.  South Africa is the most developed country on the …

Unless you want to go for a swim, it’s best not to move around in a mokoro.

We saw elephants, rhinos, hippos, leopards, cheetahs, and the rest. The lions eluded us

Highlights – meeting up with Warren at the airport wine tasting tour Cape of Good Hope/Cape Point tour District Six Museum and visiting the townships Visiting Robben Island couchsurfing with …

  The drive back to Elephant Sands was over familiar territory, and went fairly quickly.  On the way back, I saw a giraffe along the road, and we saw several …

On our final morning in the Okavango Delta, we set off on a two-hour game walk around the same island we walked across the first night. This time, we saw …

Dion was all too happy to wake us up at 4:30am for the long, four hour game walk at sunrise, even though the guides had said we would not leave …

Between Kruger Park and my first few mornings in Botswana, I was getting use to the early wake-up calls. The birds were often noisy enough to do the trick. After …

I was a little nervous about the four of us setting off on an unguided sunrise game walk around camp given the potential for running into elephants and lions, but …

Dion, the guide/driver/cook for my Delta adventure, was sipping coffee in Bob’s kitchen a full 20 minutes earlier than my scheduled 5:30am pickup. He looked comfortable in a raggy t-shirt …