We had a really early start this morning, leaving at 6am for the trucks trip to Maun so that the passengers can visit the Okavango Delta. I am not going to Maun, myself and seven of the passengers are meeting another truck and driver at Nata and transiting to Johannesburg, so today really was graduation day for me. We were on the road for about five hours before reaching the meeting point in Nata, we all had some lunch at the nearby chicken shop before I yell...

This morning George and I got up and went down to the truck to get ready for our safari into the Okavango Delta, on which we were taking about half the group. We grabbed all the stuff off the truck that we needed; food, pots, pans, cleaning stuff, tents, roll mats, esky/cool box/chilly bin. We had a quick breakfast and then the jeeps arrived with a trailer and which we loaded up. We left almost on time and drove out to the Mokoro station, stopping on the way...

Safari! Up before the crack of dawn for our 6am safari in the torrential rain. I was already soaked by the time I made it to reception and loaded myself into the open jeep. I wondered if we would see any animals in the rain and Kat even remarked if it was worth going or if we should just go back to bed. It certainly was worth it. We drove around for about half an hour and saw only baboons, which to all of us we now becoming a pretty common site. Our driver stopp...

Well we planned to leave Ngepi camp at 7am, not that this actually happened. We spent a good deal of time waiting for the reception to open so we could all pay our bar tabs, and then it took them at least 20 minutes to calculate each of them. We ended up leaving late at 8:30am which was not a great start to the day as we had a long drive. Oh well, TIA.(This is Africa) We finally set off in the truck for Botswana again and drove to a different border. We filled o...

Today we awoke early in our bush camp and went for a mokoro trip to another island in the Okavango Delta. When we got there we went for a walk in the wild and I do mean the wild. There are no fences here, only our African guide with a small knife. The first part of the walk consisted of tracking our quarry. We walked through grass that was taller than most of us and it reminded me of the scene in the "Lost World" where they get attacked by Velocir Rapt...