TR from Botswana, part 2

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TR from Botswana, part 2

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We were a group with 7 persons, a young couple from Switzerland, two young America women, an English woman and us.

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Our guide, Mompati, was very knowledgeable, could see the animals far away and were really good in finding tracks from the different animals.

Here he is listening after the animals too.

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A NEW CAMP

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Monkeys on visit

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GAME DRIVE

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Normally we were not allowed to leave the car, but some places we should be out of danger

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Our day started about six o clock in the morning. Then some of the helpers came and put cold water
in the "water tank" outside the tent. The breakfast was not very impressive, and it was always very cold in the mornings. So were the nights. There could be up to 20 degrees (celcius) between the night and the day temperature. Normally there were 2 game drive every day and normally you could be able to take a shower between the two of the drives with water warmed over the fire

Preparing of the shower
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The "water tank" . We used the water to have a short wash in the mornings.

More to come!

Linne
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Post by liamsaunt »

Wow, more amazing photos. More please!
It's like looking in your soup and finding a whole different alphabet.
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Post by pjayer »

Really great pictures. Looking forward to the rest.

Just one :?: - Is it possible the shot of the lioness snoozing was posted out of sequence? :wink: :lol:
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Post by jayseadee »

Wow, that looks amazing!!

Can it be done without camping? I don't do camping so well - I whine, a lot :oops:
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Post by gelopee »

Linne,

Absolutely fantastic. What a stunning shot of that handsome male kudu. I'm also very impressed that you were so lucky to get that treed leopard, which are, from my understanding, very difficult to locate.

I'm eagerly looking forward to the continuation of your report.

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Post by silverheels »

Wow, Linne. You've done it again! Your pictures are amazing. Thank you for sharing them with us, your VI family. Are you always so adventuresome? Keep us posted on your trip.
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Post by cat »

What an amazing trip! Thank you for sharing!!! Your pics are beautiful!!!!
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Post by linne »

To all of you:
I’m glad that you like my TR and the pictures. It’s funny for me to “experience” the safari
one more time, but as you know it take time to post pictures, and for me it also take time to write
in English.

To Mrsb 1024 and pjayer:
It was for fun, I wrote this “my husband has left me”, want to see if people noticed it, and you did. Fine that you care for me!!

To liamsaunt and jaysedee:
You don’t need to camp while going on safari. There are a lot of other ways to do it:

The cheapest and most primitive is, when you help with the work yourselves, making food, arrange the tents etc.
The next is the way we did it. We slept in small primitive tents, but we did not participate in the work. Only had to pack our beds together, when we moved.
You can also stay in big luxury tents with floors and furniture.
Or you can stay in a lodge or a hotel.

The advantage in staying in a tent is that you can hear the sounds in the nights. But the luxury tents can be just as expensive as staying in a lodge or a hotel.

To sea-nile, pjayer and silverheels:
Yes, we have travelled a lot. We like to see the world and experience other cultures. We have been driving dog sledge in Greenland among the most beautiful icebergs – you cannot imaging how beautiful, we have visited the Iban people in Borneo in a longhouse and have danced with them in the evening, we have been to a burial in Sulawesi, also as the only tourists, where there were hundreds of people from the villages around and many pigs and cows were slaughtered. The dead person has died 8 month before the burial, but it takes a long time for the family to arrange the celebration and save money for it. We have been hiking through a rainforest on Tioman in Malaysia where it suddenly began to rain so much that we were not sure if we could come back… Oh, I could tell and tell. But I know that the Danish have better opportunities than the Americans to take a long travel, because for many years we have had 3 weeks vacation in the summer and two weeks in the winter.

But, but we always try to make the journey very cheap. We mostly stay in small and primitive huts near the beach instead of an expensive hotel, and we don’t have dinner on fancy restaurants.
And we don’t travel every year. So you don’t need to earn a lot of money to have these vacations. Although I have to say that our vacation in USVI this year wasn’t cheap. It was the most expensive vacation we ever have had.


Pjayer also asked:
Is it possible the shot of the lioness snoozing was posted out of sequence?

I’m not quiet sure that I understand you. But I have to admit that the pictures are not absolutely in sequence. We have about 500 pictures, and I only upload some of them. Sometimes I think, oh, I have to show this also and then I upload some new. And it takes time if I have to look after the date and the time, so no.
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Post by pjayer »

Linne - I sent you a PM with, what I hope, is an explanation of my attempt at humor. Thanks for all the good reports and pictures. It's like reading National Geographic magazine. :)
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Cooool :lol:
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Post by linne »

Thank you for your PM pjayer. Now I understand! :D
I was aware that it might be a joke, but I couldn't get it. The explanation could be that the pictures of the love couple and the sleeping lion were from different places with different lions, and I have chosen them at random. But it was an exiting experience to see the lions "making love". They did it several times. The femail went away, came back and then they started again. We were sitting :roll: in the jeep only a few meters away, but they didn't notice us.


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