Okavango The Caprivi Strip of Namibia is a panhandle of land snaking between Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the south and edging right up to Zimbabwe in the east. This was a totally different experience to the one we had in Namibia two years ago.Then it was the desert, here it is a green, forested area with small villages of mud and thatch houses, sometimes round, sometimes square, and surrounded by fences of sticks and reeds to keep the elep...

<!-- @page { size: 21.59cm 27.94cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Into Botswana This part of the world has the borders of Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana all close together. We drove through the Mosi-oa-Tunga National Park, where the speed limit is 40kph and where the trucks do 100kph, to the border town of Kasangula where hundreds of trucks waited lined up to cross the border. Fortunately for us, cars get priority on the...