It’s been awhile since I’ve seen a computer, so here goes an update. Oh yea! and I fly home in two days! it kind of snuck up on me.
Since doing my tour of the South, I headed north along through the caprivi strip, along the Angolan border, and into Botswana! The last country of the trip. I spend bout 7 days through Botswana, mostly in the north, around the Okavango delta, which was spectacular. It’s the largest inland delta in the world. Pretty much a gigantic swamp at the end of the Kavango river in the middle of the Kalahari desert. A friend and I hired a local in Seronga to take us out on what is called a mokoro, a hollowed out tree trunk. We went all around the panhandle of the delta, and spent the night camping on one of the hundreds of islands. It was amazing being on foot in the middle of so much wildlife. It was also amazing how much wildlife swims out to these islands! We saw herds of wildebeast, zebra, antelope, even elephants. And the local told us that lions are also known to swim out to the islands!
After a great couple of days by the delta, with our trusty dusty rental car we headed south, and conveniently ran out of gas at a gas station. Unfortunately the gas station had also ran out of gas. As luck would have it though, a couple hours later we met a young guy who happened to have some extra gas, and also happened to be a manager at a 4 star game reserve in the area, that at the moment was under renovation, and had no visitors! He generously put us up in luxury safari tents, and in the end we spend 2 days around the camp on this huge 15 000 hectare property!
After grudgingly leaving the camp, and heading to Maun, I caught a bus which brought me through Gabarone, and about 20 hours later into the heart of Johannesburg. A friend, originally from Swaziland, living here has also generously put me up for the night, and has a younger brother, who is apparently an awesome jazz guitarist playing at a club in town tonight, who we’ll go see. I’ll be sure to put up a link to his music as it sounds super interesting.
Anyways, I know I am coming home soon, but here is one last photo dump!
When I’m back i’d be happy to go through more of my photos with anyone who calls.
my oh so simple 7 digit canadian number is 222 3594 for anyone who doesnt have it!
lots of love,
Adam
