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While the types of animals we were constantly seeing were not exactly “lions and tigers and bears”,  the sentiment—Oh My!—was still applicable.  Besides elephants, which I have devoted a whole blog to, we saw an incredible number and variety of other animals during all the game drives.  It is impossible to describe every single encounter, but I will try to hit the highlights. Cats: We did see lions and lots of them. … Read More

One of the main reasons I wanted to come to Botswana was to see elephants.  Already my first day in the bush we had seen several solitary bull elephants and Shabba gave me a brief commentary on elephant behavior. For example, they search out the most the tender leaves on trees, sometimes breaking the tree in half for access, other times uprooting the whole thing.  An elephant foraging in the bush is… Read More

In early 2020, before the pandemic became a “thing” I booked a safari tour in Botswana.  My goal was to see elephants, something that the nature reserves and National Parks there were famous for.  This was a trip I had been planning in the back of my mind for a couple of years and I finally reached the point where I could go do it.  Then…. March hit and with it the… Read More