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While Victoria Falls is not located in Zimbabwe, I am putting this post under the category of Botswana, because for me it was all one trip. The last day of the safari we headed across the border to Zimbabwe to see the amazing Victoria Falls. Up until a week before I headed to Africa it was not clear that the border was going to be open between Botswana and Zimbabwe. The changing… Read More
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
By its very nature a safari involves a lot of driving, and thus we were in the Land Rover a lot. Our days fell into a pattern: 6:00am Wake up 6:30am Breakfast 7:00-12:00pm Game Drive 12:30pm Lunch 4:00-7:00pm Game Drive 7:30pm Dinner Bedtime came quickly after dinner due to… Read More
We left the lodge early, about 7am, and drove into the bush that stretched behind the lodge that we had walked through yesterday. Our goal was a village on the edge of the delta where we were going meet our polers and transfer to a mokoro, the traditional flat bottomed canoe used to navigate the many delta channels, to reach our campsite on Chiefs Island. Originally we were supposed to spend two… 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
The past three days I have spent in Sauraha, Chitwan, a place totally opposite of the cool, mountainous area of Nepal I left. It is flat, super hot and extremely humid. I felt like I was back in Houston. The town is the main entry point to Chitwan National Park, an approximately 1000 square meter area of protected preserve in the south of Nepal. The town is a popular place for Nepali… Read More
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