April 29th
I'm wondering what will top yesterday's safari. We do have another one arranged at Chobe National Park, but that is at a later date. I'm hoping that will be the chance to see the Leopard!
Today was to be a travelling day, a long, long journey of 380km. On good roads, roughly 3/4 hours. On the Botswana roads, more like 7! Anyway, first a shop at the supermarket called Checkers. We were there at 8 am, hoping to get all the provisions we needed for the next few days. Groceries, yes... alcohol no, more's the pity! Liquor is not sold in the supermarkets but in separate liquor stores, and they don't open until 10. Never mind, we were hopeful of finding something on the route.
The first 100 km were on decent roads, but from then on...good god....can they get any worse? It was as Ian drove through a small township of Sehithwa that coming towards us, was a car flashing its lights. Now we have encountered this many a time, and it usually means beware, animals on the road or police vehicles present. At an 80mph sign, Ian had slowed right down, but we completely missed the 60mph sign. And that flashing car turned out to be a Police car...blast! Yep, you guessed it we were stopped and fined on the spot. 300 pula was taken...sounds a lot, but in English, money was the grand total of £15!
It did take us 7 hours to get to Droyski Cabins at tonight's campsite; they made us very welcome, offering tea and coffee before showing us to the site. The site is beautiful, and the swimming pool looked very inviting. Having been in the van for so long, a swim was just what we could do with. But...and this was the problem... being shown to the site, we drove for about a km, damn...a bit too far to walk in this heat. Never mind, we found the bar
And photos
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