Category: Botswana

Atlasville, 03 Jan 2009   All good things must come to an end. We will be back home this evening, but not before we have had a final game-viewing drive. Our flight back to Maun only leaves at 12:35 so plenty of time to go for a drive, shower and change, and pack our bags. …

Atlasville, 03 Jan 2009 A new day and indeed a new year dawns. We were already up and looking forward to our morning game drive. On a trip like this you don’t want to miss any of the daylight hours unless you want to risk missing that potential ‘once in a lifetime sighting’. Although the …

Atlasville, 03 Jan 2009 We thought yesterday’s encounter with the lionesses would be the highlight of our Botswana trip, but little did we know that today would get off to an even better start – and end. Breakfast was even earlier today and we left the camp at 06:00. Only 7 minutes later we encountered …

Atlasville, 03 Jan 2009 Our third day was to prove rather exciting. Our first drive of the day began after an early breakfast at about 06:30. At 06:53 our spotter pointed out two lionesses sitting atop a termite mound about 200 m off the road. Our guide stopped the vehicle and asked us to fasten …

Atlasville, 03 Jan 2009   Our first night at Lebala had been punctuated by the whooping sounds of Spotted Hyena, but we were nevertheless up and ready for a light breakfast and a 06:15 departure for our morning drive. First photos of the day were of a displaying male Black-bellied Bustard which was located by …

Atlasville, 03 Jan 2009 Just back from an amazing 5-night stay at Kwando Safari’s Lebala Camp  in the Kwando concession of northern Botswana in the Linyanti marshes area next to the border with the Caprivi Strip of Namibia. I added 7 lifers to my southern Africa list, Red-headed Quelea, Rufous-bellied Heron, Southern Brown-throated Weaver, Chirping Cisticola, Hartlaub’s Babbler, African …