Botswana means Chobe and the Okavango Delta to most overlanders, and neither disappointed this time...
Chobe NP started off our next leg of the tour nicely - lots of elephant and a 'nearly' lion hunt (or so I'm assured - the actual sighting was of a lion lying down, idly watching some passing (terrified) impala.)
64,000 elephants populate Chobe, and a couple of herds duly rocked up at the waters edge during our cruise to show off...
600km later and we are in Maun, and head off to the delta. After an exceptionally long mokoro ride of 4 hours to get right into the wildeness, we set up camp, swim, battle each other aboard the mokoros - which sink - and generally cause havoc in the swimming area. We are lucky and get to see a lot of game including wildebeest, zebra and elephant - both on foot and on the mokoros. Also, less excitingly, spiders and mosquitos, which the polers assure us are our friends. Consensus of the group indicates this is a lie.
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