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Botswana

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Botswana & Okavango Delta

13th August 2014
 
We entered Botswana at a small town south of Namibia's Mahango National Park - very little formality.
We now have a tarred, but pot holed road, a mobile signal and our bank card worked. I doubt if any of this will last long as we have to return to Namibia to cross into Zambia.
​Shakawe is a large village on the banks of the Okavango River. It was a complete maze of reed walls each surrounding small kraals and little else so we are still short of bread! Currently we are having a day's rest on a delightful campsite right on the river bank. They accept credit cards so we can stay a couple of nights and enjoy a nice meal in their restaurant. We spent the morning on a boat trip up river - crocodile lazed on the banks and there was plenty of bird life including an African Fish Eagle but the hippopotamus remained hidden from view. A true paradise.
Now for John's latest ditty.
 
"They didn't think much of t' delta
The water it were muddy and brown
There were no crocodiles and no hippopotamus
And n'body getting eat'n or drown'd.
So seeking for further amusement
They paid and went out on a boat
And there they saw lots of crocodiles and hippos
All lying in t' water afloat."
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      • Baltic Cruise
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  • Moselle Valley
    • North America >
      • Route 66
      • National Parks >
        • Alaska & Yukon
      • West Coast
      • Alaska Highway
      • Dempster Highway
      • Canadian Rockies
      • Great Lakes & St Lawrence River
      • Quebec
      • New Brunswick & PEI
      • Nova Scotia
  • Christmas Markets
  • God's Own Country
    • Three Peaks of Yorkshire
    • Greece and Turkey >
      • Turkey
      • France and the Pyrenees
    • Romantische Straße
    • Scafell Pike
    • Great Plains
  • Syria & Jordan
  • From the Tropic of Cancer to the Arctic Circle
    • Morocco and Western Sahara
    • Gibralter, Portugal & Spain
    • Denmark, Norway, Finland and Svalbard
  • Sue wants some more Photo Albums!
  • Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily
  • Southern Africa
    • South Africa
    • Namibia
    • Botswana
    • Zambia
    • Tanzania
    • Kenya
    • Malawi
    • Mozambique
    • Zimbabwe
    • Swaziland
    • Lesotho
  • Ireland at Last!
    • Game of Thrones
    • Belfast
  • Balkans Revisited
  • America 2016
    • New England
    • Eastern Seaboard
    • Florida and the Deep South
    • Music Cities USA
    • North to Canada
    • Newfoundland and Labrador
    • Return to Nova Scotia
  • Ypres Salient
  • On the Road Again
    • Heading East
    • Heading back West
    • Romantische Straße
    • Deutsche Märchenstraße
    • Homeward Bound
  • Nicolle meets her twin sister!
  • Down Under
    • Western Australia
    • Northern Territory
    • Queensland
    • New South Wales
    • Canberra
    • Victoria
    • Tasmania
    • Great Ocean Road
    • South Australia
    • Return to Wetern Australia
  • New Zealand
    • South Island
  • Highlands & Islands
    • Outer Hebrides
    • Harris and Lewis
    • Skye
    • Scotland 500
    • Orkney
    • Homeward Bound
  • Germany 2020 - A Trip down Memory Lane
  • North to Northumberland – and a little beyond!
  • Theft of Nicolle
  • Nouvelle Nicolle