Botswana by Daniele Somenzi
Stato: BOTSWANA (BW)
Botswana safari Nov 2005
posted by daniele [01/11/2005 20:11]
We are three, I Daniel, and Joseph Mauro, 4x4 drive, arriving in Johannesburg on 3 November 2005 with Air France flight from Paris to pisa.
A Joseph could be the one km away his happiness to finally go on that in Botswana, after all, and I am rejoiced, because I also wanted to redo the second time that experience.
Once in Johannesburg, and withdrew all the cases, including 2 for local blacks, filled with clothes, toys, shoes ecc.ecc, take possession of our rental car, booked with Hertz, Luck has it that the car is a assegnataci splendida nissan x trail 4 wheel drive, very comfortable, the color white. its engine is so quiet that only after two days, when the full fare, we realized that it was a diesel. In addition, the sunroof on safari, and dazzling lights embedded in the carrier.
First, once started, visit my friend Guido a few km from the airport, the traditional greeting first adventure, in this case, even stop, because we had to deliver some equipment to the campsite.
The plane had landed at 10.50 am and then between one thing and another, we started to 16.00 towards the border of Botswana, but a thunder storm and the fact we have been seeking a place for the night, close to Lanseria airport , south of Pretoria.
The guest house which has hosted, was too nice, it seemed the home of Hans and Gretel, immersed in a favola.Il your garden green with flowers of every kind and tall trees, surrounded by ducks and chickens with the feathers to feet , grazing the edge of the pool.
The day after a good night's sleep since the previous on board (747,400) was not so beautiful confortevole.Partiamo met at a time of Rustemburg and finally to the border of South Africa and Botswana, where there occurs a very singular. Be allaldilĂ only 3 meters of the border gate, on my mobile phone has arrived, the now traditional, welcome message, noddico, just past the border.
The local currency, the Pula, we already had them in his pocket from the day before at the airport, so we immediately inboccato the transkalahari per km towards the west and km.
Sighted many ostriches, golden jackals, kudu, towards evening, we arrive at Ghanzi where we camp with our tents in the camp, with the adjacent.
I am in my tent with three sleeping places and Mauro Giuseppe tenda.Gli into donkeys braying during the night so strong that our tents tremble with vibration. But these so do not sleep at night? must define their own territories from 2 to 3 at night?
After breakfast made to fast the next morning, we fill up diesel, about 150 pula each time and way to Maun .. Along the way we have to slow down to every cow or donkey, even the kids through, but ostriches are the most amusing, especially the one with the struzzini. While donkeys coward if you move to one I have also given a parcel on a Chiappa from the car window, and others, I stopped pursuing them on foot, all while Mauro filming me with the camera and spanciava laughing.
40 degrees the day we remember that we were in there and Mauro africa.Io alternatives in the guide, arrived in Maun, withdrawing money at an ATM, my visa card and it works perfectly in a batterd'occhio me the sms arrives on the phone with confirmation of the amount we have stayed ahead euro.piu Iceland safari lodge, where I had already been 2 times, one with the Truk africa with Nicola and one with Michela.
The choice was room without air conditioning bad choice, in fact all three sudavamo and slept little, my mattress was perterra, while Mauro and Joseph had normal beds, with a curtain anti zanzare.Il thousand feet giant run on my bed and after have gone to the creator I appisolato. the scorpions we have managed to leave them out of the room.
By toyota 4x4 we went to the encounter with the blacks who are pushing the mokoro, was added to us a girl who spoke English also Italian. Mauro did the day tour, and like 'that would be returned in the evening at the lodge.
The mokoro and 'dug a log by way of boat, driven by star standing with a long stick type, Joseph and I were him, magnificent moment in silence vessels operating on delta dell'okavango clean water and how the last time I drank I water and plunge us into .. 2 hours walking safari in the unspoilt countryside, with extensive steppes and savannahs, and in some case even stripes of green, where he hid the dangers maggiorim, every time that passes inside un'attacco I was afraid of lions. However sent always driving ahead, you never know, so the lion eats him that first evening we noi.Alla camp under a big tree of sausage, food preferred by elephants. That night is a pachyderm is right there, just 5 meters from the tent, making un'accidente take. But this is beautiful .. delta safari all'okavango start for the Park Moremi, super dry, they say that no rain for 6 months, animals of all kinds, even a pack of lions eating a kudu, we sleep in tents and with a lot of tension for the whole night because we are not here recintati.Ma everything is magical. The night before the flashes were so many that lit up the whole neighborhood giorno.I cercopitechi us to steal a piece of bread for breakfast, is over there a couple of giraffes graze peacefully. One of the branches of the Okavango River, is full of hippos and even more ahead of crocodiles. Let's go back to Iceland the next day safari lodge where sleep another night in their room and I in the tent .. parties with our nissan for makgadigadi park, where we arrived towards evening. Drizzle here but still warm, we are in the rainy season. Boongalow sleep in protected animals,
Cun 4x4 and a local guide, we explore the park and there are many vultures and eagles in the beautiful figure, a Kudu with an incredible Basz enters the protected area of the park by jumping the net high over 2 meters ..
Later leave by the electrified network to head verses Kasane.Lungo Born and then the paved road, we see that a truck had a somewhat hard contact with an elephant. One to zero for the trucks, but not so for his driver, who went to the hospital for sure but perhaps also to the creator as the elephant. But I wonder, how do you not see un'elefante passing the road. Va bè, which could be at night, but the lights do not you? At what speed to go?
We arrive at Kasane and we decide to skip straight to the border but only after you fill up petrol in Zimbabwe or not. Hello hello