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 year...

Today we boarded our new truck to begin our drive to Botswana. The border crossing was interesting as we had to individually walk through a foot & mouth trough and the truck had to be driven through a much larger one. This was the beginning of a variety of "veterinary checks" that we will face whilst in Botswana. You are not allowed to carry fresh fruit, veges or meat from one part of the country to another. Botswana relies on agriculture as well as tourism f...

Our final day in Vic Falls we decided to go exploring. Ben joined us once again as we hunted "The Big Tree" which turned out to be a huge baobab. We gave it a hug before meandering off down the road to find ourselves alongside the Zambezi just up from where the water falls. Stunning and peaceful without crowds. Having dipped our feet in the racing waters and appreciated this natural beauty we wandered towards town. Here Vikki left to get her hair washed and spend...

Began the day with much organising between our old & new trucks - putting a new tent up, getting new mattresses, moving things from lockers on one truck to the other, finding luggage and moving it over. Quite the mission. Then I called Mum to wish her an early birthday!! Am sure she will have an amazing celebration in NZ on Friday with her brother travelling over from Perth and Hannah with the kids! Tessa & I meandered off into town checking out local...

Wow! We had a wonderful time with our first experience of this "natural wonder of the world"! First we wandered into town to find breakfast - we went to a cafe recommended by the lonely planet - fantastic food, good coffee and friendly service! We were nicely relaxed when we realised we had keys to truck things people may want to access so hightailed it back to camp. Whilst there we collected Ben, who arrived yesterday and is going through to Cape Town, and w...