Tag: okavango
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When flooded turn back please
“When flooded turn back please” should have been the sign to greet us at the border when we crossed into Botswana… more than that, we should have listened. Old signs at the different accommodation stages that stated “Botswana is mostly a dry country going through a drought, please use water carefully” haven’t bothered to update…
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Treinta Cuatros de Marzo
When they say age is just a number, they are right. W;hat we attached to that big number and big milestone is entirely up to us. When I was younger I thought that when I reached this age I would have a settled married life, I would be travelling the world on occasion and probably…
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Tumelo
During our Botswana adventure our first mishappening was having a flat tyre, although not a real issue in itself, it became a source of concern as it didn’t seem that we would be able to have it fixed in the ghost town that Maun becomes after 12pm on a Saturday; we didn’t want to risk…
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Prelude
All great adventure stories normally start with that particular moment when that defining “idea” was conceived, when somehow all comes together to make things happen, when then plan has been set into motion and suddenly you are there, living the dream. My story should have started like this. For my birthday I wanted an adventure,…