When two people are travelling together, there are bound to be some things that the one didn’t enjoy quite as much as the other one. I think it’s a good idea to reflect on the trip afterwards, to learn from possible mistakes and to better plan for the next one. So… the verdict is out […]
Continue ReadingAn Afternoon Game Cruise Along the Chobe River
I later asked our morning game drive ranger if he had seen the elephants I had spotted in the distance. His reply was that there were over 70 000 elephants in the Chobe National Park and they were the highlight of the afternoon game cruise, so no one paid them much mind on the regular […]
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“Elephants in the distance,” I say from the back of the game truck, but either the ranger doesn’t hear me or he chooses to ignore the first animals we’ve come across in the grey morning light just before dawn. A few minutes earlier his walkie-talkie had crackled and hissed in broken Tswana, a message he […]
Continue ReadingMongoose Mayhem and Monkey Madness
“Come look quickly!” Gareth called quietly, but urgently, from our porch at the Chobe Safari Lodge where I was taking a respite from the heat by reading my Kindle inside our air-conditioned room. I put my book down and went outside to be met by this: A troop of mongooses were cavorting on the lawn, […]
Continue ReadingThree Nights at Chobe Safari Lodge, Botswana
Gareth and I spent the first three days of our African Adventure 2011 holiday at the lovely Chobe Safari Lodge situated on the banks of the Chobe river in Botswana. We had a River Room at ground level and could watch small animals play on the grass outside while lying in bed, the blue waters […]
Continue ReadingFour African Countries For the Price of One
When I booked our African Adventure 2011 holiday, I left all the little nitty-gritty details to the travel agent to arrange. So apart from the fact that we were going to Zimbabwe and Botswana, and a knowledge of the pre-booked activities we had chosen to do, we had no idea of the what, when and […]
Continue ReadingComing Soon: African Adventure 2011
Regular readers may have noticed that there was no blog post last week and, although I know you were all undoubtedly devastated by this silence on my part, rest assured it was for good reason. Gareth and I spent the week in Botswana and Zimbabwe on what I have fondly christened our African Adventure 2011. […]
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