16 August 2018 Kasane – Camping at Chobe River Lodge It is a short hop from Camp Nkwazi in Zambia, across the Zambezi River to Kasane in Botswana. We were very excited to get there as Nigel Gericke, a friend from Cape Town, and who introduced us to his friends in Kasane at the start …
The road from Nxai Pan to Kasane was great once we got past Nata, and we had a pleasant drive along the Highway – but we had to have our eyes open as this is Africa, so three times we had to slow down for elephant crossing the road. As we arrived in Kasane District, …
Nxai Pan 15-18 June 2018 Yesterday we left Nata, and had to drive on the terrible road to Maun – the Tracks4Africa on the GPS said “Drive xkm on Pothole Road” – we laughed, but it made for tiring driving. We reached the turn off to Nxai Pan, and headed from one bad tarred road, …
Nata Lodge and Nata Bird Sanctuary, Botswana 13-15 June 2018 The road from Matopos to Francistown is only about 200 km. We were up very early and left Matopos National Park at 7 am. Tracks4Africa led us on a short cut to avoid going back to Bulawayo – through beautiful countryside, but the road/track was …