The first day was a long and moderately uninteresting drive on the bitumen heading east into Botswana. The occasional township punctuated the trip with farms, including game farms lining the road. The occasional hazard cropped up: a warthog suddenly leapt out of the scrub by the road and ran a suicide mission right in front of the car. Lucky for him, we missed, but only just. A short time later, a similarly intentioned ground squirrel made a kamikaze run in f...

Next day everyone else arrived at various times. To kick off the trip we all met around the pool for a drink, then piled into minibuses to go to Joe's, an veritable institution in Windhoek and packed to the rafters despite it being a Thursday night. For many it was their first taste of game meats - Oryx, Springbok and so on. It was a really good night getting to know the group we will be travelling with for the next 2 months. 15 May This day was looking like be...

The flight we chose to get to Johannesburg was via Singapore. Odd choice you might think but as we had points with Singapore Airlines we could travel Business Class all the way and so hopefully arrive a bit more refreshed. Well, good idea in theory - the trip from home to the lodge in Windhoek took just on 30 hours and we were well jet-lagged! Still better to be jet-lagged travelling Business than Economy! Londoningi Lodge in Windhoek is a pleasant place in a ...