Graptolite - Safari Day 5 to 6
Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Wed 7 Apr 2010 17:37
Okavango Delta, Botswana
Easter Monday 5th April
On the B8 between Grootfontein and Rundu we passed through a disease
control fence that separates the big cattle ranches and open scrubby
grasslands in the south from the subsistence farming in the bush to the
north. It`s a dramatic change from seeing almost no-one at the roadside
to passing through a world teeming with brightly dressed people and neat
mud and thatch kraals and villages and the smell of wood smoke. Who would
have thought veterinary science could make such a difference?
We had arranged a night in the Kaisosi River Lodge on the Okavango River
near Rundu to break the drive to the Okavango Delta. Wet dirt road turned
into a sort of river tributary several kilometres before reaching the
lodge. We arrived with water up to the door sills, hoping for the best.
The lodge turned out to be good and our room was still just above water.
Later they laid on a cruise up the river with a spectacular sunset over
the Angolan bush on the north bank.
Tuesday 6th April
>From Rundu we followed the Okavango River downstream for a few hundred
kilometres to Popa Falls then crossed the border post into Botswana and
pressed on another few hundred kilometres to the town of Maun where the
river delta finally dries up in the wastes of the Kalahari.
We found accommodation out of town just before dark but it was vile so
least said the better.
M