A travel day today - first checking out of Zimbabwe hotel seeing the inept staff try and settle a bill. They want you to come and spend money but as none of them actually have any - exchanging money is made difficult. Bank...nope. Hotel...nope. Lovely!
Drove to border in a bus where we exchanged one car for another and off we go.
Was a bit nervous about the Mowana hotel. It's a 4* but that dies not mean much in Africa. And we had just had sooo much bad food in Zimbabwe I had actually lost weight on vacation!!
But Botswana is light years ahead of Zimbabwe. The immigration office had computers and organization vs Zimbabwe which was a hut and lots of chatter.
The fields in Botswana were being tended, with crops such as maize and bananas available. The townships had small brick and concrete houses with schools available and open. Zimbabwe seemed to only have mud huts that needed repairs, and all the fields were long past being usable or tended for crops...
A sad sight to see such a difference between 2 neighboring countries from different political rule. I wonder why the people of Zimbabwe do not revolt against the leader...they do not seem happy with their current state.
Back to vacation...hotel turned out to be great. Food is great!!!! Yeah I can eat again. I had soup and salad and some chicken for lunch followed by custard. Yes the luxury of custard!!! Yummy!!
We then went on a sunset cruise in Chobe national park to see the animals - and boy did we see them!!! It was just the 2 of us so like a personal tour as well.
Hippos in the water - and had a close run in with a mother protecting her 3 month old baby.
Elephants galore - over 150,000 in the 11,000 km park so they are everywhere and always eating. The park has tried to move some to other places but not much success yet. Sending 10,000 to Angola but the landmines killed them all. Another reminder of the leftover impacts from war...
Birds, birds, birds - storks heron kingfisher egret data...you can get sooo close to them and they don't mind.
Crocodiles, monitar lizards, kudu, impala, giraffes, and buffalo!!
It was such a breathtaking afternoon to be in what I imagined "real Africa" to be with all the animals roaming and living freely. Finished off with a gorgeous sunset that was beyond the beauty a photo could take.
Welcome to Africa!
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