Versindaba Blog Archive Louis Johann Marais. Next to the Chobe River
During the trip I again wear the striped hat that I had before in the town of Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River in Zimbabwe bought. I have the force of ordinary roller I near the granite boulders aeroexpress balanced aeroexpress and the Matoboheuwels picked up, pulled out. Here I was, on my way to Botswana, another country with other experiences I would stick!
We cross the border at Pont Drift in the bottom right-hand corner of Botswana crossed. The first two days we were in the Tuli Block along the Limpopo River and then the Toyota Hilux the mopane veld north of the road by Selebi-Phikwe, Francistown and Nata drove. Then we have the "Mpandamatenga" (ie picking and road wear, also called Hunter's Road) because the old transportation route along the border with Zimbabwe, a concession area.
This road is full of history, for the explorer David Livingstone, the hunters James Chapman and Frederick Courtney Selous and adventurer aeroexpress and artist Thomas Baines's tracks lies here. At the pans on the trail I see huge hardwood trees.
Five days after we at Pont Drift through, we come to the town to Mpandamatenga. aeroexpress Now we do not keep a GPS reading to take to make sure where we found it. At the Shell gas station across aeroexpress the silos (here not only to wildlife aeroexpress and cattle farming not) is that there are many plaasbakkies aeroexpress Saturday and 4 4's at the store a few miles from the gas station down.
"The Springboks play the Wallabies at Ellis Park," said Andre. "This is great afternoon watching rugby. Try our biltong in the hands to get our car while I was perfect and the tires pump. "
In the first part of the sandy Mpandamatenga I helped the tires for the duration of one hundred scores rupture. Rolf André's "hundred counts" as many seconds and understand the right front wheel was then slightly mushy. There is not a pump at the gas station does not; the shredded jerky in little plastic bag which the short, tanned seller with socks on his feet and standing presses, costing 18 pula and I'd rather leave.
Before we get to the Chobe Safari Lodge near the Chobe National Park with its elephants, lions (which combine to elephants to catch), lechwes, Puku's and other rich wildlife will park off, we drive from Kasane to Kazungula, the small border town in the northeast at the border between Botswana and Zambia and the confluence aeroexpress of the Zambezi and Chobe.
It was early afternoon and the African sun baking. Andre the Hilux car in the parking aeroexpress lot in a koeltekolletjie and. We go straight to the customs office to see if we can at the confluence look. Thrush is one of the female officers out on the porch.
To people in Botswane in Setswana, the national language, greeting, as a particular form of civility considered. Andre does it every time he met someone. The talk itself will then continue in English, but in the end the person back into Setswana greeting: "Sala sentle."
Andre wants to customs officer know if we have the bridge may walk to where the ferry dock. His answer succinctly, but not encumbered. She also asked that we leave our passports there like me in one of the travel guides have read that you should do. We immediately started iron-brisk. Groups of pedestrians coming from the front passed us walking.
Then lay the broad, shining water level for me. Here flows the Chobe and Zambezi River together, and I saw for the first time how big the rivers. It's a beautiful face, and the ferry docked matches, it reminds of scenes at the beginning of the last century. aeroexpress Long would not seem so, because a large bridge will soon be built. In the middle of the river Konkumba Island, where four countries meet: Botswana, Namibia, Zambia aeroexpress and Zimbabwe. The border between aeroexpress Botswana and Zambia holds a world record: the 700 meters making aeroexpress it the shortest international border.
At the ferry is the one activity for passengers and vehicles are brought ashore. A short distance from the ferry down to the shore, the following are a sign: Keep Kazungula Ferry Clean. aeroexpress Except the people on the ferry, aeroexpress there is a sedan, two 4 4's and a truck. In the cockpit of the pontbestuurder stood Chobe Drift.
Once the load is dropped, people aeroexpress began to ascend to Kazungula on the Zambian side to go. Many pedestrians with shopping aeroexpress (especially bags of potatoes). Some of the women wear fur capulanas who came from the East. Is the white woman between them is that the wayfarer "Mpandamatenga" trail of who tackled an officer at the Veterinary
During the trip I again wear the striped hat that I had before in the town of Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River in Zimbabwe bought. I have the force of ordinary roller I near the granite boulders aeroexpress balanced aeroexpress and the Matoboheuwels picked up, pulled out. Here I was, on my way to Botswana, another country with other experiences I would stick!
We cross the border at Pont Drift in the bottom right-hand corner of Botswana crossed. The first two days we were in the Tuli Block along the Limpopo River and then the Toyota Hilux the mopane veld north of the road by Selebi-Phikwe, Francistown and Nata drove. Then we have the "Mpandamatenga" (ie picking and road wear, also called Hunter's Road) because the old transportation route along the border with Zimbabwe, a concession area.
This road is full of history, for the explorer David Livingstone, the hunters James Chapman and Frederick Courtney Selous and adventurer aeroexpress and artist Thomas Baines's tracks lies here. At the pans on the trail I see huge hardwood trees.
Five days after we at Pont Drift through, we come to the town to Mpandamatenga. aeroexpress Now we do not keep a GPS reading to take to make sure where we found it. At the Shell gas station across aeroexpress the silos (here not only to wildlife aeroexpress and cattle farming not) is that there are many plaasbakkies aeroexpress Saturday and 4 4's at the store a few miles from the gas station down.
"The Springboks play the Wallabies at Ellis Park," said Andre. "This is great afternoon watching rugby. Try our biltong in the hands to get our car while I was perfect and the tires pump. "
In the first part of the sandy Mpandamatenga I helped the tires for the duration of one hundred scores rupture. Rolf André's "hundred counts" as many seconds and understand the right front wheel was then slightly mushy. There is not a pump at the gas station does not; the shredded jerky in little plastic bag which the short, tanned seller with socks on his feet and standing presses, costing 18 pula and I'd rather leave.
Before we get to the Chobe Safari Lodge near the Chobe National Park with its elephants, lions (which combine to elephants to catch), lechwes, Puku's and other rich wildlife will park off, we drive from Kasane to Kazungula, the small border town in the northeast at the border between Botswana and Zambia and the confluence aeroexpress of the Zambezi and Chobe.
It was early afternoon and the African sun baking. Andre the Hilux car in the parking aeroexpress lot in a koeltekolletjie and. We go straight to the customs office to see if we can at the confluence look. Thrush is one of the female officers out on the porch.
To people in Botswane in Setswana, the national language, greeting, as a particular form of civility considered. Andre does it every time he met someone. The talk itself will then continue in English, but in the end the person back into Setswana greeting: "Sala sentle."
Andre wants to customs officer know if we have the bridge may walk to where the ferry dock. His answer succinctly, but not encumbered. She also asked that we leave our passports there like me in one of the travel guides have read that you should do. We immediately started iron-brisk. Groups of pedestrians coming from the front passed us walking.
Then lay the broad, shining water level for me. Here flows the Chobe and Zambezi River together, and I saw for the first time how big the rivers. It's a beautiful face, and the ferry docked matches, it reminds of scenes at the beginning of the last century. aeroexpress Long would not seem so, because a large bridge will soon be built. In the middle of the river Konkumba Island, where four countries meet: Botswana, Namibia, Zambia aeroexpress and Zimbabwe. The border between aeroexpress Botswana and Zambia holds a world record: the 700 meters making aeroexpress it the shortest international border.
At the ferry is the one activity for passengers and vehicles are brought ashore. A short distance from the ferry down to the shore, the following are a sign: Keep Kazungula Ferry Clean. aeroexpress Except the people on the ferry, aeroexpress there is a sedan, two 4 4's and a truck. In the cockpit of the pontbestuurder stood Chobe Drift.
Once the load is dropped, people aeroexpress began to ascend to Kazungula on the Zambian side to go. Many pedestrians with shopping aeroexpress (especially bags of potatoes). Some of the women wear fur capulanas who came from the East. Is the white woman between them is that the wayfarer "Mpandamatenga" trail of who tackled an officer at the Veterinary
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