We awoke before our alarm call at 6.00am and headed to breakfast at 6.30am - not much food was required as we were both still full after last nights ample dinner. We then set off for a really relaxing mokoro ride - today's mokoros are fiberglass not wood but still shaped like a long dugout canoe, they are propelled by a poler with a long wooden pole - the most similar experience we have is punting on the River Cam at home - where luckily there are no hippos or cr...

After a safari drive to the Chapman's baobab with a newly arrived and very excited German family on their first safari we had to sadly pack up and fly out. Chapman's baobab is an enormous tree with markings from the early explorers showing they had been there. It was on the old track between Cape Town and Cairo - a daunting trek. In the tree was a hole used as mail box - albeit a local had marked it with the word 'male' - an easy mistake! We said our goodbyes a...

We were at the meerkat colony by 0730, there was still a nip in the air so the family of 11( 4 adults, 4 babies and 3 who were 6 months old) were still snuggled inside. We thought having looked at the burrow we would be asked to stand back, but no - soon after one adult emerged from one of the underground openings and stood unperturbed, by our presence, taking in the morning sun. She was however constantly vigilant looking all the way around for predators both in...

0530 arrived as did our wake up call but as it had been raining all night we decided not to do the game drive or walk as we did not fancy getting wet and cold again. Instead we had a leisurely morning - sleeping then packing and finally joining the guys from Belgium who were flying with us to Maun for brunch. As we finished packing the lights went off in the tent meaning we had truly exhausted every ounce of solar power....the last of the hot water was yesterday!...

It rained all night and continued through breakfast, so we ate inside this morning. We were joined by the two guys from Belgium on our morning drive; even though we had our wet weather gear on we all donned the brown ponchos provided, and we hoped the weather would improve. We looked for last nights cheetah-no luck - but the mating pair of leopards were still in the area of last nights viewing but several metres further back. We could only see heads appear above...