🇧🇼 Botswana
🎥 Recapping our 24-day overlanding safari of Africa
Here’s a video recap of what we thought about our 24-day overlanding safari tour of Africa. What did we like? Dislike? Would we do it again? Find out below.
And here’s a short montage video someone on our tour made for his students—focusing on the first few days of the East Africa portion of our tour—using a 360 camera.
And if you missed it, here’s more on the overlanding truck we used:
https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2025/01/07/a-little-bit-about-the.html
-S 🇿🇦🇧🇼🇿🇼🇿🇲🇲🇼🇹🇿
🎥 Recapping our wildlife experiences in Africa
A video discussion of our wildlife experiences in Africa. Did we see everything we wanted to? What were the game drives like? Find out in the video below. -S 🇿🇦🇧🇼🇿🇼🇿🇲🇲🇼🇹🇿
We did a sunset game drive a few days ago, but a rainy night made for a less than stellar experience. But the two highlights were a (rather vicious) zebra fight and elephants playing the mud. The sunset was pretty nice too! -S 🇿🇲
A few favorite shots from the last few days. -S 🇧🇼🇿🇼
A few shots from tonight‘s river cruise on the Chobe River along the Botswana/Namibia border. -S 🇧🇼
Christmas Eve dinner, cooked out of the truck. -S 🇧🇼
🎥 Updates from our tented camp
We spent two nights in a tented camp in Khwai Conservation Area, with our first “full day” of safari game drives—one in the early morning and another in the late afternoon and past sunset.
Here’s an update on our first morning game safari, which was very fun.
And another update after our sunset game safari, which also includes a bit more on our accommmodations here.
We recorded this second video from our subsequent tented camp near Chobe National Park, which overlooked an elephant watering hole.
Because elephants frequent the area, you also can only move between your tent and the facilities under escort after dark.
We’ll post some more photos of the tented camp facilities in the coming days.
🎥 Roadside elephants in Botswana
Our accommodation tonight… -S 🇧🇼
Just a quick taste of our leopard sighting today. -S 🇧🇼
Some lion photos from this morning’s safari. -S 🇧🇼
We have a bit of unexpected wifi, so here are some hippo pics from the day. -S 🇧🇼
We did a Mokoro canoe today in the Okavango Delta. During the canoe, we came across a bloat of hippos and I was able to capture them making noise. -J 🇧🇼
And some more photos from the Mokoro canoe:
Rainstorm in the Kalahari Desert
We’re off grid the next three nights, staying in a bush camp without electricity, near the Okavango Delta in Botswana. It might be awhile until the next update.
Here are some photos from yesterday, which was mostly a long drive thru the Kalahari Desert during a series of big rainstorms. During a lull, we randomly pulled off to cook lunch out of the truck.
We gave the leftovers to a local family who was very interested in our big vehicle and what the heck we were doing.
I also busted out some local lager, improbably named St Louis, which was among the lowest rated beer on untappd I’ve ever had, and shared with our adventure family. We’re having fun, but dang I miss happy hour at Wren Südhalle!
We ended the day at our hotel, which donates space for a local women-run program that recycles booze bottles from the hotel, melts down the glass, and makes jewelry. We got a little demonstration of the process.
Speaking of the hotel, we’ve been pleasantly surprised with the accommodations so far.
And we’re off on our 24-day safari thru South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, and Tanzania!
Here’s our vehicle for the journey! -S 🇿🇦🇧🇼🇿🇼🇿🇲🇲🇼🇹🇿