Feb 18: Depart Delta and Travel to Gweta - Planet Baobab

Up at 5 AM and depart for a 1 1/2 hour trek....breakfast after we return. We travel in another direction but the results are the same. Some impala, maybe a hyena, etc...the water is so plentiful and the grass so high that seeing wildlife is difficult at best. After 1 1/2 hour we are back in camp, breakfast, break camp, pack the mokoro and return to the Delta's grassy waterways. The weather is hot and humid; much like the Washington DC area in late July. The return trip is as beautiful as the initial journey; one whose memories I will always cherish.

As we leave the Okavango Delta, we retrace our route back through Maun. As we head eastward towards Gweta, we enter a different ecological environment. The road between Maun and Francistown is cracked and crop-less, where elephants tear up any tree that dares raise its head, As we continue towards Gweta, we enter "Planet Baobab" which is comprised of 4,000 year-old Baobab trees and the boundless salt pans of the Makgadikgadi, a lunar landscape the size of Switzerland.

The routine continues...arrive camp....set-up tents within 5 minutes....find the pool or bar...relax before dinner. A few of us walk the camp grounds marveling at the large Baobab tress and snap..snap..snap. The Delta has taken its toll on us and we are tired. After a dinner of beef steak, potatoes and salad, Morrison our adventure guide gives us our nightly briefing on what the next day entails. WHAT....WHAT.... "Do we want to do a Chobe Truck Safari?"...of course Morrison...WHAT...WHAT...we have to get up at what time to get there by noon...WHAT....WHAT...4 AM...you got to be kidding!!! The man has no heart...4 AM it is and we all head to the showers to clean-up and get ready for an early wakening. GOOD NIGHT MORRISON!!!!

Let me introduce the last members of our group:

Michaela, George and Christiana - joined the group in Swakopmund, Namibia..all live and work in a museum in Salzburg , Austria.

PICTURES to be ADDED LATER...ASAP