August 2nd – 5th, 2022 Introduction Our friends Gerry and Ronda joined us for our visit to Moremi and Chobe National Parks. This is part 2, If you didn’t read part 1 of this you can find it here. This time we’re continuing from Savuti through to Ihaha on the Chobe Riverfront. As we’ve found…
July 24th, 2022 to August 1st, 2022 Dedication I want to dedicate this post to Stan Weakley, who sadly passed away recently. Stan was a fellow traveler and wrote an extensive blog, Slow Donkey, about his 2015 overland trip to East Africa with his wife Anne. He also wrote of numerous other trips and his…
June 23rd – 30th, 2022 The Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) is different than many other parks. Enormous. Dry. Hot. And with that deceiving empty feeling characteristic of deserts, yet actually full of life and activity to the careful observer. Jenny and I have often remarked that we wouldn’t recommend a visit to the CKGR…
May 25th – June 12th Baines’ Baobabs I’d arrived at Baines’ Baobabs, an impressive stand of huge baobab trees “discovered” by Thomas Baines in the 1800s. These lie within the Nxai Pan National Park at the edge of a salt pan. There are three campsites in the area, each with its own baobab or two…
