Road from Ihaha out of the park was very deep sand in places
but we made it without letting air out of the tyres. Once outside the gate and back on tar we
passed through a couple of villages and spotted a general store with a bar –
happy Ian as we could buy beer! Botswana seems more affluent than its
neighbours as even the smallest villages have block paved pavements and sign
posted bus stops. The tar road didn’t last
long and soon we were back driving through deep sand for 70 km so it was a slow
and very, very hot journey. We don’t
have a thermometer but we reckon it must be in the mid 40s in the shade –
everything is getting cooked and our cooled drinks are warm within 5 mins and
positively hot within 20 mins.
Tonight’s campsite is next to the Linyanti river with tall
papyrus grass along the banks and lots of birdlife. We
arrived to find another troop of baboons on our site but thankfully they moved
away! Instead we found the campsite was
surrounded by elephants. Quite an
interesting experience doing the washing up whilst watching a herd of very
large elephants 10 yards away.
Soon after we arrived one of our Dutch neighbours came over
and asked if we could give them some water – they had got stuck on the road
from Savute and used all their water.
Not a problem, we gave them 3 litres.
A few hours later, our other neighbours came with a similar request, we
managed to spare another 2 litres but are definitely at our limit now, and fingers crossed that we don't get stuck ourselves!
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