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  Summary of KNP Botswana side – Mabuasehube 4X4 Wilderness Trail: We made our booking telephonically at the Gaberone offices.  We found that e-mailing a request and waiting for a reply was nerve-wrecking as the reply took a number of days and most of the questions we asked in the e-mail were not replied to.  [...]

  7 November The wild dance of summer rain left us when the first grey of dawn broke on the horizon.  The earth was drenched, layers of desert sand cooled down and all around life was singing a song of gratitude.  In the dim light of daybreak, we noticed that the pan has filled up [...]

  6 November The smell of rain was carried by the northern wind.  There was a brooding silence that hung thickly in the air at first light.  A few barking gecko’s broke the quiet with intermittent calls.  I lay quietly in the tent, merely absorbing each feeling; the emotion of being somewhere in one of [...]

  5 November We woke early – before the sky had a chance to turn pale.  The camp was silent, thus we resorted to whispering.  If we were to be delayed another day, we had to give up our planned trip to the Botswana side.  We decided that the repair of our vehicle was more [...]

    3 & 4 November   Our Monday was spent with much anticipation at camp.  We worked most of the early morning while it was still cool and by mid-afternoon, our bodies became wilted by a 42 degree temperature.  We visited the pool again and watched the birds as they gratefully drank from the [...]

  2 November Sunday morning, Nossob camp site.  Two more great things happened.  Early morning we moved from the site where we slept to another site that has two huge shady trees.  The coolness brought solace to our situation of being stuck without a vehicle.  It was not that bad really, but for all intents [...]

  1 November Late morning and twelve lions later we headed in the direction of Nossob.  We did a “pyjama run” on the Auob River road and had a lion festival.  First a young male, then a lioness with four cubs, a mating pair and a few paces on, another male with three females.  In [...]

31 October 2008 How time flies…  I cannot believe how much has happened and how much we had traveled since we left Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in August.  We were heading back – almost a déjà vu of our previous visit.  Early morning through the now sapphire green vineyards of Kakamas and Keimoes.  We were once [...]

In my hands, I hold a universe of life and abundance death and want the infinite cycle of life Each grain of red sand holds; fiery passion lure and fascination ancient wisdom the trails of many seasons It carries the forgotten songs of my people as they sang and danced on the dunes their laughter [...]

I will continue with our November trip to Kgalagadi and revert back to the other parks once done.  I hope you all enjoy Kgalagadi as much as I did! 0 people like this article. Like