From Capetown to Victoria Falls

The Okavango Delta

At 8:00 we leave in an open 4x4 wheel with the whole group. We get to take a small bag, our tents and mattresses. It’s a bumpy ride to the Okavango and very cold this early in the morning. We get to the Okavango around 9:30 and load our stuff into a Mokoro. The Mokoro is being poled by a woman, who will take us to our “camp”. It’s beautiful, from the dryness of Namibia into the green and wet busch of Botswana. About one and a half our later we arrive at the riverbank where we put up our tent behind the toilet of an elephant. The polers also stay at the camp, do our dishes, make us dinner and pole us around. Feel like real tourists again! In the afternoon the two of us take of in a Mokoro. Looks easier than it is, jeez! The rest of the afternoon chilling on our mattresses on the riverbank. At one point we saw two elephants approaching our camp, action! But they went back in the woods. Lou and Ceen on adventure!!! We went searching for the elephants. Walking slowly, not making any sound. And there they were, just eating some leafs of the trees. We were looking at them from a distance, when all of a sudden they ran towards us and hit us with their trunk. Ok, I’m exaggerating just a little. But they came towards us. The problem is that when you run, they’ll come after you. So I was like; Lou, let’s get out of here! And he was just making pictures, while this elephant was getting closer and closer. Fortunately we got away, but what an adventure! We did a game walk from 16:30 until 18:00. The guide told us about the plants and animals living in the Okavango Delta which was very interesting. We had dinner with our poler friends and enjoyed the sounds of nature.

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