A Simply Fab Life
Most important Three Things to pack into your luggage: a sense of humour, secondly a sense of adventure and thirdly… common sense! Armed with that Africa is a fantastic experience!
The whole campsite, in its entirety, is not much more than the size of our single pitch in Savute Camp in Chobe. I think that there is room for about five or six vehicles here, but we share the space with just one other 4×4.
Departing from the dock at the splendid Chobe River Lodge this three hour cruise takes us out into the very wide Chobe River, along the border with Namibia and around Sedudu Island.
The clue is in the name. But you only realise it when you get there. There is a herd of elephants gathered around a waterhole. And a lot of sand. Oh, and no fences… At all!
Having spent a lovely night in the Savute Camp, being camped on one of only four enormous pitches along the Savute ‘river canal’ (which was dry at this time) we now head further north to Kasane.
The first time I heard of Chobe was as a kid a long time ago. It had the same status as Serengeti or Etosha for me. An unreachable destination somewhere in central Africa.
Chobe, Etosha, Okavango, Kruger, Serengeti – we have all heard of them at some point in our lives. They all have a certain mystique about them, a celebrity status, if you will. I think Moremi belongs on that list as well…
After an hour of appreciating the countryside at a sedate 80 km/h, and at roughly 150 km from Maun, we saw a vehicle off the road against the game fence, bonnet up and a guy lying under the vehicle…
Maun is a strange place. But in a good way. It is both a small town and a big ‘hub’ for the game park tourism industry. It has two faces…
You slowly become aware of a stillness, a complete silence, an emptiness. A calmness that competes with, yet adds to, the bluest of skies, as wide as you’ve ever seen. It, sort of, sneaks up on you and becomes more pervasive.