We have reached the end. Sad times. We were not being collected until 11.15 to head to Victoria Falls airport, and with a check out of 10am, there was ample time for a slow, leisurely getting ready, packed, eating breakfast etc. We were provided with an ample breakfas,t but Keith (being the weirdo that he…

Today it was goodbye to Botswana. The day started with a lie-in, it was so magical, it was so magical I got told off by my sleep app and I really didn’t care. I even skipped breakfast to really embrace the extra sleep and the a leisurely getting ready and packed. This would turn out…

As promised, as the focus of this trip was going to very much rooted in the current day. Therefore, I thought I would do a dedicated post with a high-level overview of the history of Botswana which now I have returned I can finally finish. In classic white-European focus, it has been quite challenging to…

Happy Independence Day! 30 September is a national holiday celebrating Botswana’s Independence from the UK in 1966 which makes this the 60th anniversary of independence. When I eventually publish the history post, you will understand the full details but suffice to say the Lodge team were very excited and we were all presented with a…

The end is nigh… Well, nigh-ish. Last night was our last night in our tents, our last breakast and the last camping Mum intends to do for the rest of her life (direct quote everyone). The team came out to wave us off (and they really have earned their tips bless them) and we headed…

Well, this is it, the last full day of mobile safari-ing. We may have had a slightly rocky start, but we are now fully fledged hard core, camping safari types. We mock lodge people (ignoring the fact that we will shortly become lodge people) and their white shirts and less than COMPLETE commitment to safari-ing.…

Our last “big” travel day would have us covering around 160km traveling from our Savuti which is in the western part of Chobe National Park, towards the edge of the Chobe river (near Kasane). So a long travel day, but the riverfront is the area which is meant to have the highest concentration of elephants…

I am currently writing this after having survived my first day back at work, it is hard to try and recall that just last week I was in the heat of Botswana, with regular elephant sightings. Turns out this is not my actual life, and to be clear, I do actually like my job, but…

This was our first full day in Savuti and today was the day I made a real effort with the food and actually photographed everything that I ate – some of you will find this interesting I know. I mentioned the concept of African time, well this morning Keith was fully embracing African time and…

Today was a moving day, which meant a 5am wake-up. This felt particularly hard work as at around midnight I was awoken by some animal noise, and I genuinely thought I heard claws and something, probably a lion, trying to get into my tent! We had been provided with whistles and were told the ONLY…