Barby here reporting once again from Botswana - mainly Chief's Camp in the Moremi Game Reserve - Chief's Island.
Last night was somewhat eventful because we had a troop of baboons and vervet monkeys that were acting...well...like monkeys at around 3:32 in the morning...running all around outside our tent and on our roof and making their calls. It was quite an exciting feeling to sleep in a tent hearing the sounds of the wilderness throughout the night - you certainly don't get THAT in Miami! No worries, we weren't exactly roughing it - this is unlike any "tent" I've ever seen!
We had an exciting game drive this morning - saw lions, african buffalo, elephants and impalas....all in one area! Then we decided to have some fun with hippos and I got some great open-mouth shots.
The scenery here is indescribably beautiful and drastically different from one area to the next....with marshes, lagoons and wetlands in one area...savannah and bush fields in another....and forest-like canopies in another....unless you see it for yourself, the pictures really won't do it justice.
Just got off a mokoro ride where we basically took a canoe trip down the delta (kind of like those gondolas in Venice but without the striped shirts and all the italians). I was a bit nervous given that the pathways that are used for the mokoro trips are literally pathways that hippos create, but we were in good hands so I decided to stop worrying and we survived!
Right now we are just relaxing a bit, updating the blog and Manny is reading, waiting for high tea before we set off for another game drive. Hopefully this one will be as eventful as the one from this morning.
Tomorrow we are off to Cape Town and the winelands.
Signing off from the Okavango Delta.....Barby
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