A typical early morning followed as we were packed up, breakfasted and on the road before 7.30. A shop stop occurred around 9am when a surprise was sprung on us that we would need to change our Botswana Pula because we wouldn't be stopping at any other exchange houses before Namibia. This was news to most of us as we had understood we would be exchanging at the border. The 20 minute stop we were granted ended up being a little longer as we exchanged our currency...

We got up early, ate a quick breakfast and broke camp. We packed everything back into the mokoros, and ensuring we had left no trace of our stay, we were punted back to the mokoro station. We said goodbye to Nelly who had punted us around for the few days and gave her a tip - she was such a jolly girl. We took everything out and loaded it all into the speed boats when they arrived. I ended up giving my small tiger umbrella to a little girl, her sister had b...

We departed the campsite at 7 heading for Maun. We stopped for a shop stop here to buy 10 litres of water each for our time in the Okavango Delta. As this was our last stop in civilisation before my birthday tomorrow, I treated myself to a birthday cream cake. Yum! We set off again at just before 11 reaching the campsite on the outskirts of town in good time. We had an early lunch while Steph made sure we had all we needed for the Delta and Ruan looked at fi...

We departed some time after 10, the drive taking us along the Elephant Highway so called due to the large numbers of elephants in the area. Unfortunately for us there weren't many near the road but we did see a trio in the mid-distance together with a giraffe later. At the second toilet stop around lunch time Ruan, our driver, noticed that the huge petrol tank was hanging off. It was such a good job he had noticed it because if it had fallen off while we we...

We got stamped out of Zambia an hour after setting off before waiting at the river's edge for the ferry. The Zambezi river marks the border just outside the small border town of Kazungula in the south of Zambia where we could see four countries at the same time, an area known as Africa's Four Corners. Standing in Zambia, on the opposite bank to the left was Zimbabwe, in front of us Botswana and 150m further to the right Namibia. A short hop across the 400m ...