We headed out of Maun first west and then north to cross into Namibia at a small out-of-the-way border post. This part of Botswana is a sparsely populated area with nothing but wild bush.it seemed that there were no villages, no animals and no people, but the occasional cow with a bell around its neck or a donkey feeding by the side of the road meant that there must have been people somewhere. The border on the Botswana side was a tiny wooden hut with two unif...

We moved on to Moremi National Park, encompassing the Okavango Delta. At the moment, it is a month off the driest period of the year so the place isn't flooded. But there are plenty of ponds and marshes scattered over the pans and plenty of wildlife. We saw Tsessebe, a larger brown antelope which we had not seen before, and plenty of wildebeest, impala, zebra and giraffe. The wetter areas also are home to the Red Lechwe, like an impala but much bigger and with im...

Some of us travel with Chris in his safari truck when we move from one place to another. It means we are up the front of the convoy with no dust and with Chris pointing out the animals and other interesting things along the way that are so easy to miss otherwise. I try and travel this way each time which of course means that Russ is left to drive on his own - at least he can listen to his awful 50s music without my complaints! More four-wheel driving through s...

Only a night on the Chobe River so we packed up our tents as the resident warthogs wandered through the campsite and the vervet monkeys tried to ransack the rubbish bin and steal anything they could out of the cars. From here we headed deeper into Chobe National Park, leaving the bitumen and again tackling the dirt and the deep sand. At Savuti, we entered the campground, another with an elephant-proof ablutions block, and set up for two nights. Chris, who was ...

Back to reality! We had to repack all the gear in the car which had got a bit disrupted when we checked into the hotel. But the day was only a short driving one - and all on bitumen - crossing over the border into Botswana again at Kasungula. After the exit formalities which were surprisingly quick, we checked in on the Botswanan side. First it was a check of our passports to see if we had been in an Ebola-infected area and then the immigration part which was als...