Botswana – ThousandWords

Makgadikgadi’s bush men

November 12, 2014

before hurrying to the airstrip (the advantage of charter flights: they have to wait for your) we spent an educational morning about survival in the desert, is amazing how easy is to them to extract water from plants or start a fire.. their version of rock-paper-scisors, didn’t get it… 80 and still strong and this […]

Makgadikgadi’s meerkat experience

November 10, 2014

they move all over the place, not more than 10 seconds still , it took forever to get this picture after a while you start to see the pattern part of the meerkat experience is to wait till they climb on you for a better scouting view, unfortunately Sabine’s jacket had something about it… THAT’s […]

Makgadikgadi salt pans – a night to remember

November 7, 2014

is amazing when you see nothing but salt pan everywhere you look our ATVs after about 50min of riding THAT’s what i call a sundowner when there’s no city light polution is amazing how visible milky way is sleeping in the pan was amazing, i just gazed at the stars for almost 1hr till i […]

Makgadikgadi salt pans

November 5, 2014

San Camp is just a dream, with a very bedouiny feeling they know how to look after you.

Okovango Delta – finally: Leopard!

November 3, 2014

finally my Big Five check list is complete. in Sri Lanka i refused to believe the still exists after lots of visits in the Yala Park, in Masai Mara someone in our car claimed saw a tail (boohoo), in Namibia we had to turn around before the leopard destination, but in Botswana we had 3 […]

Okovango Delta – wild dogs, baby cheetah and lions

October 31, 2014

what a morning! Botswana lays on a plateau about 1000m high meaning in the mornings is mighty cold, we were told in the winter times frost sometimes freezes; during the morning safaris till the sun warms one up you cover with blankets and the last thing you need is the driver going like mad off […]