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Botswana: photo and travel diary

Below some of the most fascinating photos from Botswana, and a fun and interesting travel diary full of information and anecdotes that describes the entire itinerary. If you haven't read it yet, take a look at travel information and the itinerary map here: www.wildtrips.net/africa-botswana-travel-itinerary.htm. I remember the first part of this itinerary, in Namibia, is described here: www.wildrips.net/africa.htm.

Travel diary in Botswana

(This report continues from here: Namibia travel diary ).
After leaving Namibia, we crossed two boundaries, with botswana and Zimbabwe . In the latter case we lost time due to a long queue and we paid 150 euros a visa! We managed to enter Zimbabwe and headed to the Victoria Waterfalls, or Victoria Falls , tourist destination but fundamental in our travel itinerary.

The victory waterfalls provided an incredible show. The entrance to the Zimbabwe side cost twenty euros each, an obviously worthy expense. Facocs and tourists walked on the edge of the precipice, in front of waterfalls as never before (only the Iguazu can beat the victory in magnificence).

We then walked through the bridge with Zambia, to admire the waterfalls from another point of view and smarce another country in our visited states lists. In the evening we sleeped in a campsite by Victoria Falls Town, a very touristy town, and in a good restaurant (Mama Africa) in which we ate meat in front of typical dance shows. A bit of vacation in the middle of our adventurous travel itinerary.
The next day we left Zimbabwe and returned to Botswana to visit the Chobe National Park . At the entrance (in Kasane) we had the good fortune to be able to book a place in a park campsite - we were happy, because from the information we had collected from Italy it seemed great, but difficult, sleep in the reserve.
The wonderful Chobe NP filled us with joys.

Elephants and giraffes, hippopotamus, gazelles as if raining, strange birds , of everything. She traveled randomly for dirt roads, often sandy. There were fewer people than at the Etosha park in Namibia, and even more freedom. It was not a vacation, it was a real adventure in the wildest nature. A necessary destination not only for this travel itinerary, but for each safari and for every vacation. Even if you are in Japan, to say, it's worth doing a small & quot; small & quot; Deviation and come here.

To get to the campsite, always inside the Chobe park, I drove on a wide and fascinating sandy track surrounded by jungle.

The campsite was simply a jungle area, near the river, where you were granted to camp. We saw monkeys and elephants to hear the hippos and would not exclude the presence of carnivorous felines: he was not recommended to go around at night. The atmosphere under the starry sky and the only noises of nature was incredible.

The next day we continued to venture for the Chobe through the most senseless road of the holiday, indeed, of the universe: it was a continuous climbing and descending on steep dosses between five and ten meters from each other. Inside the jeep we jumped as dice launched on the table. We arrived in Maun, where decent roads reappeared, and in pitiful hygienic conditions we walked the Botswana south, direction Johannesburg. We visited the Makgadikpadi Pans , huge expanses of salt, so we crossed some quiet towns along the main road. We camped in the savannah, near the ostriches.
on the border with South Africa the customs officers checked the car to verify that we did not import meat. In South Africa our navigator lost the maps, but following the signs and the sun (note: in the southern hemisphere the sun at noon indicates the North, not the south) we arrived in Johannesburg, where we returned the jeep after 8000 kilometers And 15 days of travel .
we were enthusiastic about the companies taken, but arrived at home, we felt strong the lack of Mom Africa and the sensations very intense lived in absolute freedom.
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