We are moving on to our next and final camp, which Bibi says is his favourite. So we had our usual 06:00 wake-up call and bed roll packing, followed by breakfast. I’m being very naughty and eating toast with peanut…

With less zips going throughout the night due to inventive in-tent toilet facilities having been fashioned, we did hear a few more sounds of the African night. Our camp was relatively close to a water channel and the occasional grunt…

Another wash-basin-filling 06:00 alarm call to get on the road by 07:30. Today we are off to the Moremi Game Reserve for 2 nights at camp #3. This would be just 135kms which is just as well over the very…

Another 06:00 Bibi alarm sounded. Today were leaving this camp near Kasane and heading for Savuti, so we had to pack not only our kit bags but also our sleeping kit back into the bag it came in. Given a…

We’d been given warnings of how cold the African night might be. This, after all, is winter in Botswana. Winter? Temperatures get up to the low to mid 20s Centigrade in the day but sink into single figures at night.…

Today we start what most people would regard as the wildlife safari itself; we were heading into the Chobe National Park for the big stuff which meant crossing a border once again. This time we were leaving Zambia and back…

This morning was time to visit Victoria Falls, or “the smoke that thunders”, which is a translation of the name used by the native Kalolo-Lozi people before David Livingstone found them. The “smoke”, of course, is the enormous amount of…

[5th July was getting a bit long so here’s an addendum covering a couple of days.] I’m used to seeing birds following moving items. Seagulls often follow tractors ploughing fields and Francine and I have watched a gang of Black…

It is not often that I am left mystified by food. However, our Maun hotel dinner menu had featured as accompanying options: chips, mashed potato or pap. Pap? More of that later. We’d heard hippo noises overnight; well, in the…