All change to Botswana - Chobe Nationoal Park

After 24 days for traveling down from Nairobi, 7 of us bid farewell to those continuing to Cape Town. Their route cuts west towards Namibia whilst ours south & then east through Botswana to Jo'burg. The risk of no fuel in Zimbarbwe means we have a longer drive but save ourselves a $55 visa to enter the country.

We headed off in a new truck with 2 new travellers - Simon & Caroline & 6 others from the Cape Town to Jo'burg truck. Our new south African guides were a stark change from the laid back hosting of our Dutch guides. A strict cleaning, cooking & washing up rotor was posted & we were talked to like school kids that had no sense or cognitive ability of our own. This went down particularly well with yours truly but I choose to bite my tongue (well to start with anyway).

We left Livingstone & headed for the Zambian/Botswanan border. The border crossing is a 4 country meeting point; where the edges of Zimbabwe & Namibia join at the junction of the Chobe & the Zambezi rivers. The short ferry crossing & quick border process saw us at a small camp site on the banks of the Chobe river from where we started an evening river cruise up the river as the sun began to sink into the marshlands on the horizon.