An early morning taking the tent down in the dark as we had an 8 hour drive to get to Maun. Today we saw elephants wandering along the highway and many many donkeys. When Botswana gained independence from Britain in the early 1960s the founding President decided to gift a donkey to each village - donkeys are useful for moving people & goods to commercial centres and from the place they are farmed to the village itself. However, donkeys breed and after 50 years there are a large number of them who roam as they will.

We had carefully finished all our fresh fruit & vege the day before and at the veterinary check we dutifully got out of the truck and walked through the foot and mouth trough. Lunch was held at a pleasant official rest area on the due of the road and for the first time we attracted little in the way of an audience. One gentlemen with his wife and dog who had paused there to stretch their legs were curious as to what we were doing but no locals.

We got to Maun at 1520 hours which Ali was pleased by as we had to do a big shop for the food we require for the Okavanga Delta. We found some fresh cheese scones to take for our first lunches, plus some tuba, tomato & capsicum. We also had a cornetto ice cream each whilst we waited to everyone else to finish.

He campsite is behind a hotel which has a pool and a dance party to greet us. There is also free wifi - the first we've had access to since leaving Rwanda!