Botswana Travel Blogs

Our first day of the tour proper, and probably the most boring day of the whole tour. The morning was spent in Livingstone, allowing people a final e-mail check or some shopping before we would leave Zambia. Each truck Acacia Travel uses has a name, and our home for the next three weeks would be th…

Sleeping in the wild again... Today was the day that we had to take the tents etc with us for the night, because we stayed on a kind of iceland... The plan was that we had a hour drive to a place by the water. African people piced us up from there with a woodboot, called the Mokoro....It is the be…

Here’s another excerpt from my written diary:   “Wednesday 20 December 2006 There was a storm in Maun last night. The lightning was so bright, I didn’t need a torch to find my way around. As I paced over to my tent, I crossed an open part of Audi Camp, and never felt more like I could…

Want to see some wild animals upclose? Here you find some of my pics taken during my various trips to Botswana. A great and peacefull country and if you go to the Okavango Delta you can still do safaries without being surrounded by 100 other tourists. Small lodges where you can enjoy nature and all the animals you see there, just AMAZING.

2002 undergraduate study abroad trip during my junior year at Pomona College. I spent 4 months living with several families in Botswana, 1 month assisting on a TB surveillance at a refugee camp I was living at, and finally 1 month traveling around neighboring countries, mostly on my own.

We stayed at Nkwazi lodge. Before raising the tents, we were given a wildlife survival talk from the campowner. A guy from New Zealand. Often you see them in southern Africa. Running bars, campsites or farms. This one instructed us with all kinds of tips, especially to not to challenge wild animals…

Got up early to go on a game drive in Chobe National Park. I was feeling really exhausted cos Tam and I didn't wake up til 5:30am and we had to leave at 5:35am - so no time to adjust properly! We saw wild dogs eating a kudu, lots of kudu, heaps of birds, Chacma baboons, impala, a croc, hippos, wart…

The encounter with the San was an organized trip with my overland tour. The San were until 100-150 years ago all over Southern Africa. Some linguists say they invented human language around 30.000 years ago  now they are just some 10.000, most of them driven from fertile land into the Kalahari…

Maun, the capital of Botswana, has a lot of trees! I don't remember that from last time. Forgotten they drive on the left too. It's always dangerous that first time you step off the curb to jaywalk. Even though I was only paid to take photos here, I managed to write an article about how expensive …

My family and I did a week long safari in the Okavanga Delta in northern Botswana, and then headed to Cape Town for a couple days over Christmas... best trip of my life!

Croatia summer 2007 A wonderfull country

24 days trip, 5800 km in a truck, sleeping in tents.

After a night in a camp outside of Maun we were up early to get ready for the Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta. We were pulled down a partly dried up lake in Mokoros, two passengers per boat and one local doing all the work. Our puller, Anams, was always smiling, talking to his…

Quickfire pack up and breakfast (wake at 6, left about 7), a last photo with Bennie’s family The house was right next to a small round hut that was Bennie’s dad’s first house, made out of termite mound mud. Laura got a tour of the garden from Bennie’s dad Drove to Wimpy’s, picked up ou…

after leaving Livingstone and Zambia behind we headed for the ferry border crossing into Botswana. After the inevitable delay at the border crossing, and having been offered free condoms at imigration, and made our way through the anti  foot and mouth disease puddle we headed for our camp…