Okavango Delta Travel Blogs

We woke up to the sound of the leader of the guides doing his best rooster impression.We went out for another short walk, but unfortunately we didn't see any animals apart from a couple of wildebeest in the distance. When we returned to the camp we had a quick breakfast and packed up camp to head b…

Back to Camp The next morning you could also go to the same Gamedrive, but I choose to stay longer in the tent for some reasons... First I had realy the time to sleep in more and my other reason was the Hippo experience already... It does not keep me for doing it, but it was the combination... I w…

What a surprise, we had survived :). This morning, we had the choice to make another game walk or you could stay in your bed. I had choosen the first and that did not turned out well. Our first guide was a little bit shy, but could show us some interesting things. The guide this morning was its s…

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!

After 6 months of travelling many things have happened. I saw whalesharks in Mozambique, heard lions roaring in Serengeti, smelled exotic spices in Zanzibar. Froze on the way to the summit of Kilimanjaro and sweated in the deserts of Oman. Met Xhosa people with painted faces in South Africa, sipped black tea with Pakistani workers in the Emirates and walked with Buddhist monks around stupas in Nepal...

We staan om 6 uur op en laden de truck in. Dan gaan we ontbijten en op weg naar de Okavango delta. De eerste stop zal Etsha 13 zijn. De plaats waar we lunchen en waar we overgaan op 4x4 jeeps. We komen aan in Etsha volgens plan en ontbijten. Echter direct na Etsha begint het water Dat is normaal ni…

TODO *******Tour blurb below Days 9-12 Okavango Delta The next destination is the gateway to one of the world's most renowned and complex ecosystems, the Okavango Delta. Springing from the Okavango River which begins life in Angola, this is a natural wetland system formed by the river dividing i…

Woke up about 5:15am as we were supposed to leave for our morning walk at 5:30am. Our guides deemed it not light enough though so we waited til 6am then set off. The walk went for almost 2.5hrs around an island in the Delta. We saw a bushbuck, a giraffe, heard some lions roaring, and took photos wi…

after a full days drive through northern botswana whilst coming to grips with the fact that there are very few people who appeared to be above 35-40 years old due to the huge death rate of HIV aids in botswana i took an excursion from the capital Maun into the delta. We were taken to a village…

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

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.

3 weeks in Africa

Per mokoro gaan we naar Chief's Island en maken een meer dan 4 uur durende wandeling, in het begin in de aangename ochtend maar als de zon hoog aan de hemel komt wordt het erg warm. We zien de restanten van een olifant, de kop van een nijlpaard en het geraamte van een pas opgegeten buffel. Dat zijn…

After arriving back from the Delta all dirty and smelly I jumped into the shower at the campsite in Maun.  Tomorrow I, along with five others, would be leaving the tour and flying to Johannesburg whilst the seven others continued down to Cape Town.  I therefore had to cram all of my thing…

Amazing!  Only issue...yes, those stupid ants.  We managed to put up our tent right on an ants nest again.  Luckily we've got a better tent now so hopefully the ant-infested nightmares will stop soon.  But, these ants were a little more brave than the inland ants;  they dec…