November 4-6, Botswana

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Now that we're home and "almost" back on AZ time, I'll try to catch up on the blog posts.

 We spent these 3 nights in Chobe National Park in Botswana. It was hot and very dry here.  The days were around 100 and the nights in the 80s.  No air-conditioning or WiFi.

Our home

Our closet

 Our daily routine was: wake up at 5:30, a light breakfast at 6:00, load-up at 6:30 for a game drive of about 4 hours looking for wildlife.
Then back to camp for brrrrrrunch  (as Sku, our trip manager, pronounced it).  Brunch was a combination of breakfast items such as eggs, bacon, fresh fruit, porridge, vegetable casseroles, muffins and many more.

Next was "siesta" time of about 3 hours.  Then, about 3:30, we'd have high tea with cookies or other sweets and hot or cold iced tea or coffee. Sku would then give us a preview of the next day's activities and one of the staff would present a "Learning and Discovery" discussion about the area's history, politics or customs. Then we loaded up for the afternoon game drive that lasted 3-4 hours.  We would have a "Sundowner" Happy Hour out in the Bush.

 When we returned to camp, a full bar and a delicious dinner awaited us.  Afterward, Sku gave us last-minute details about the following day and we were off to bed. The days were full and we usually slept soundly unless elephants, lions, monkeys or other wildlife paid a visit to our camp.

We visited a local village where this lady was grinding maize for polenta, a popular dish here. She invited us into her home, showed us around the village, and took us to the shop where women sell their creations.