Hey Everyone, Well its been over a week since we have written but Africa and the truck does not allow us to write all the time unfortunately! We left Vic Falls and headed straight to beautiful Botswana where there are noticably millions of donkeys everywhere! Had a game drive through Chobe National Park but unfortunately did not see alot of game (some hippo and lots of bird life) but the scenery was really lovely. We had a film crew from America filming 6 housewives who had never travelled stay at our campsite and as they were filmiing all over the place they bought us a pack of beers to thank us for our cooperation. Bless! The next day we drove on to Maun (Botswana's 3rd largest city) to stock up on food and supplies for our following two days in the Okavango Delta. To get to our basic camp in the Delta we met our Polers (men with Mokoro boats and poles to push them along) and jumped into our dug outs and made our way through a labrynth of creeks flanked by tall reeds and gorgeous colourful waterlillies floating in the small surrounding ponds and along the creek edges. After a couple of hours of being poled along by our Botswana tribes people we got to a basic camp on the shore of an island and set up camp. Our toilet was a hole in the ground and a fire was our oven for the next two nights. That evening we went on a game walk which was a little disconcerting as our leader had only a long wooden stick for defence against predators and also adivsed us to stay very still should a big cat approach or climb the nearest tall tree if a buffalo, elephant or angry beast in the Delta decided to charge. Excellent! To be honest it was more of a scenery walk taking in the sounds and sites of the Delta but we did see a family of hippos that looked at us curiously but luckily non threateningly from their pool. The sunset was fabulous and quite breathtaking. The next morning was a non eventful sunrise game walk and that evening a sunset cruise in the mokoro's with our polers. The Delta was very relaxing and was really back to basics with camping so generally a great experience and something we would do again. The following day we packed up - with the event of a large brown scorpion running over the foot of one of the girls in our group but luckily she was unhurt if a little shaken....they are scary looking things! That afternoon we did a 45 min flight in a small 6 seater plane over the Delta to view where we had been from the air. It was a mass of greenery made up of waterways, ponds, reeds, waterlillies and small islands and atolls housing game. From the air we could make out herds of Elephant, Giraffe, Warthogs and Impala. It was a little turbulent and to be honest me (sarah) and some of the girls on the flight landed looking a little white and pale. Following the last few eventful days we leave beautiful Botswana and cross the border to Namibia - heading for Rundu which is North Namibia just south of Angola (we could see Angola from our campsite). The next two days find us driving through Etosha Game Park. Good for Nambia but bad for us there has been a plentiful rain supply over the last couple of months which means that the reserve is extremely green and makes it more difficult to find and see the animals as they have a lot more watering holes to chose from and can camoflage themselves in all the greenery! The next highlight is we stay at Cheetah Park which has 3 resident (tame) cheetahs which we got to visit, pat and watch being fed in the park owners back garden. Great house cats and excellent watch dogs in one animal. Their fur was quite rough to touch and as you patted their heads they purred like a house cat although somewhat louder! It was quite amazing for us to be so up close and personal with a big cat. We then went for a drive through the reserve where they house over 20 cheetahs saved from the wild (farmers shooting them etc) and watched them getting fed. There was some cheetah fighting and hissing over the horse meat that was being flung from the safari van by the owner. Nearly there....bear with us now...last night we stayed in Spitzkoppe which is a campsite in the middle of a desert by some rather large rock formations that displayed an abundance of warm earthy reds from their outer layers and gave a great view over the surrounding landscape. The sunset from here was fantastic as it cast its light over the rock formations giving them an alluring glow over the camp. Today we walked around some of the larger rocks and viewed paintings over 500 years old painted on the walls of the rocks overhangs by the bushman from that time depicting stories of the bushman and the game in the area. Most of the paintings were terribly faded and some were quite hard to make out what they actually were but still pretty cool to see the history of this land. We then made our way to Swakopmund where we are now. Its a great little town set on the Atlantic coast of Namibia and has lots of adrenalin activities on offer. We are staying here for the next few days and will be partaking in some activities I am sure so will write about these soonish....photos also to come soon as possible. Sorry for this longwinded postcard but a week of activity makes up alot of writing. We are still having a ball here and enjoying every minute. Lots of love Shane and Sarah xx