I got a bus direct from Gaborone to Jo'burg - yet again the border crossing was without event - well I did get in trouble for taking pictures of the welcome to South Africa sign (I was made to delete them). I was really fortunate because one of girls I had travelled with was from Johannesburg and she very very kindly offered to let me stay at her house. So after a long bus journey (actually it was only like 7 hours) I got to Stefs house where I went for a swim in...

Gaborone (pronounced hab-o-ro-nay) is the capital of Botswana, and it doesn't feel as much like an African city, it's much more developed (that's what diamonds will do for you). To be honest there's not much to say about Gabs, I'm only really including it to keep my map right - the only other thing I would say to any perspective visitors is it is really really expensive. My accommodation cost about 3 times as much as my previous most expensive accommodation - the...

With some time to spare (but not lots) I decided to head for the Khama Rhino Sanctuary. My original plan had been to go to the salt flats but as it's the wet season in Botswana you can't camp or quadbike on them and a half day trip is pretty expensive. It also means they aren't as impressive. So bearing all that in mind and the fact I'm going to Bolivia I decided not to go. Khama rhino sanctary has some of the only rhino in Botswana. Although it is a sanctuary ...

Yet again a journey made for one of my more interesting experiences. We had decided to leave early for Botswana because it is a bit of a trek and we had been warned that transport in Botswana can be slow/difficult. We got a taxi to the border and then crossed, what is apparently the shortest international border in the world (about 750M) by ferry. We then arrived in Botswana and entered the country without major incident. We then got in a taxi to Kasane where we ...

So we stayed on the bus all night - I didn't sleep very much! Then we left on time (well an hour later than we thought but that is on time nowadays) and headed for Lusaka - we had planned on staying there but we arrived at 12 and decided we'd power through to Livingstone, so after 2 hours respite we hopped on another stuffy bus and headed for Livingstone. So we arrived in Livingstone around 10pm (about 29 hours after we left south Luangwa), tired, cranky and hung...