Botswana – Marie & Emma's Travel Journal

Chasing Sunrise: Crossing the Zambezi and admiring its power at Victoria Falls

September 8, 2019

The Zambezi is Africa’s 4th longest river. Almost 2,700km long it flows through 6 countries; Zambia, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. It spends the most amount of time in Zambia and forms the country’s border with Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. Our route was taking us from Botswana to Zambia which meant we’d be crossing … More Chasing Sunrise: Crossing the Zambezi and admiring its power at Victoria Falls

Chasing Sunrise: Botswana – Chobe National Park

September 7, 2019

We reached camp at mid-afternoon. Marie was still feeling pretty washed out and the drive had been very long and hot. 10km south of the border town of Kasane (it has border crossings to both Zambia, which we planned to take, and Zimbabwe) we had a choice of a shorter 4WD access road or a … More Chasing Sunrise: Botswana – Chobe National Park

Chasing Sunrise: Botswana – Okavango Delta

September 5, 2019

It was a 3 hour drive to Maun, the town that is the jumping off point for the Okavango Delta. We got there around lunchtime and headed to the airport as ideally we wanted to fly over it. There are plenty of scenic flight operators (and all are doing the same route). It turned out … More Chasing Sunrise: Botswana – Okavango Delta

Chasing sunrise: Out of Namibia and into Botswana

September 4, 2019

We dragged ourselves away from Etosha around mid-morning and hit the road east. Our destination was Rundu at the base of Namibia’s finger. A solid 4 hour drive we’d also resolved to try and fix the major niggles with the 4WD given it wouldn’t be long until we’d be leaving Namibia. Getting low beam lights … More Chasing sunrise: Out of Namibia and into Botswana