I decided
that I wanted to see a little more of Botswana so I spent a day and drove South
to a town called Maun… It’s the “gateway” to the West side of the Okavango
delta and the associated Moremi National Park.
It’s a bit
of an odd sprawled out town with no real centre but I found a cheap backpackers
on the outskirts (the good thing about having my own transport is that I can
look around for places to stay without the difficulties that people traveling
on public transport have) and got myself settled in.
The firxt
thing that you notice about Botswana when you are coming in from Namibia is
that things are quite a bit more expensive… and tourist activities in Maun are
probably the peak of the difference… Its all set up for “high-end” lodge stays
deep within the delta region. That means fly-in stay a few days, do a few walks
and canoe trips and fly out… But I don’t really have the money to spend on
extended stays in luxury accommodation here ( Ive got a long way to go and not
that much money to get me there). So, I looked into the options and decided Id
go for a day trip in Moremi park and for a late afternoon flight over the delta
to see what was there.
I had the
usual challenge tho of being an individual traveler and I needed to wait for
groups to form so I could tag-along on commercial trips… The flight took a day
and the “game drive” took a couple more.
The
flight was good and I got to see what I wanted. There was lots of game visible
from the air and the pilot flew quite low too but air craft plexiglass is not
that great for photography so I focussed on the experience of it rather than
pictures… In the end, I thought the experience was worth the expense and Im
glad I did it…
A few
crappy pictures to give a bit of an idea…
Lion thinking "mmm Rump Steak"!
