Safari
06.04.2011
I'm in Johannesburg for a night after my 7 day safari from Livingstone, Zambia through Botswana before embarking on a 4 day tree-hut safari to Kruger National Park.
We've been camping for 6 nights and spend numerous hours on the road, but also been on game drives, horse rides and camping in the Okawango Delta going in to the delta by mokoro, a special kind of canoe.
It's been nice to see a bit more of Africa, we've been through quite a few veterenary check points where we've had to wash our shoes because of a foot and mouth decise that has broken out. For every checkpoint we've had to get rid of fruit, meat and milk as well.
In Chobe National Park some of us went on game drives while others went on a sunset cruise. I opted for the sunset and sunrise game drive.
Chobe is known for having a lot of anmals, especially elephants, and we saw quite a few, one a little too close for my liking when it litterly tried to charge our truck! That guy was big! We also saw giraffes, zebra, impala, puku, warthog, kudu, buffalo, crockodile and a few noses and ears of hippos, none out of the water though. I've got a lot of photos of just water and a hippo ear or two sticking up.
After Chobe we went to Maun, the gate to the Okawango Delta. The mokoros took us into the delta where we camped for 2 nights.
It was really peacefull and nice to be in one place for a few days without any travelling. It's quite amazing going to bed in your tent and watching the fire burning close by and the sky is filled with stars through your moscito netting. Not to mention falling asleep to all the animal noices. We could hear the hippos coming up of the water to grass just 50m from our camp. The 2nd night one of them decided to come up to grass just behind our tent. The sunsets and the sunrises in the delta are amazing, the sun is so red. After the two night we went back to Maun where we spent the day. Nicci and I went horseback riding in a nearby game park filled with animals.
The next day we set of for the Rhino Sanctuary near the border to South Africa. We actually came across some wild dogs/painted dogs crossing the road, we were really lucky, they are hard to spot and it's not many left. We went on a game drive at the Rhino sanctuary using our little mini bus and we got to see the rhinos up close, right in front of us on the road.
Tomorrow it's on to Kruger. Hopefully I'll get to lion in the wild and maybe a lepoard.
Posted by RaijaKarma 20:23 Archived in South Africa
