Earlier in the day we had had the opportunity to look around the city centre, though for some, the absence of internet (it was down across the whole city) was more than a little frustrating.
With one last night and one tour extension, as well as a night out of the tents (in dorms) to celebrate, the group made sure the night was memorable...
Day 12: No cook team this morning as breakfast is included, so its a well rested group that pile into the truck, ready to cross the border. First though we bump into a southbound Acacia truck (with Tony and Sammie) so have a quick stop to exchange news and views from the road. The border crossing is again uneventful, and we get to Ghanzi, our first stop in Botswana mid afternoon. On the journey though, the Botswanian wildlife lives up to its reputation and does its best to become tonight's dinner - its amazing how the sight of a truck approaching, with the horn blowing does not even merit a blink of an eye for these donkeys/ cows/ horses, let alone a step from the centre of the road where they have taken up residence. (The reason for this apparent stupidity is because the roads are unfenced and the animals are unguarded.)
Quite a few people choose to reside for the night in straw 'bushman' huts, and set up home here before heading off on a walk with a bushman tribe, which proves illuminating - these tribes live a threatened existance as increasingly they are being forced out of their homes in the Kalahari and surrounding areas, and given alternative accomodation quite unlike what they have used for the past thousands of years.
We only spend one night in Ghanzi, and tomorrow its off to Maun - our gateway to the Okavango Delta!
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