Lion King Sunset

Taken on the Okavango River, near Ngepi Camp in Namibia (click to enlarge)

Recognize this?

Giraffes are wonderful animals. Take a look at this close-up that my wife shot, isn't it cute?

Now imagine we're (game-) driving that very same morning, just a couple of hours later. We spotted a hyena that was walking in the field at about 200 meters from us, carrying something big in his mouth. So I immediately drove up there to get a closer look:

We were shocked and amazed at the same time. It was carrying the decapitated head of a giraffe, wow! Here's another close-up:

Several days later, we had driven through some rough terrain and opened our fridge to get a nice cool beer. It appeared that a bottle of ketchup had exploded. I couldn't resist to add this picture, to make the giraffe story even more dramatic:

Please drop a message if you recognize any of this (I mean the story/experience, not the fridge)  ;-)

Crossing Third Bridge in Moremi, Botswana

Thank you Roger Beeckman for shooting and sending me this great picture of our Third Bridge crossing!
A while later Roger had to help out another self-driving couple who got stuck in the sand.

 

As a first timer, I'm proud that we never got stuck ourselves (at least not in the sand, but that's a different story) ...

Bridge washed away in Botswana

This is why we couldn't travel from Toteng to Maun, on the 'normal' road:

For the local pedestrians, some people had improvised a ferry:

Preparing for our Safari in Botswana

Busy entering waypoints into the Garmin GPS, here's where we're going: 

 
With a tented 4x4 that Bushlore is going to deliver to us in Kasane, we're going camping during our two week safari in and aroung the Okavango Delta. Hans (owner of Come Along Safaries) provided excellent help in organizing our trip, and was so kind to make the Garmin available to us.Without his help, I would never have been able to organize all this myself. If ever you have plans yourself go and use him, serious.

Here's some video (sorry for the google ad):


Will be posting more once we're back... (and we're back!)