Journey to the Okavango Delta

I slept well until 3am but then woke up with things on my mind that I ran over and over until I had to get up in the cool of the early morning at 5.30am. I was greeted with a high crescent moon, a reddening sky and a beautiful morning as I went into the shower where elephants have been known to put their trunks in for water during the day season. We had a breakfast of fruit and eggy bread before setting off on the next leg of our journey. We ploughed through miles of low scrubland on a bumpy road seeing occasional elephants feeding near the road.
After a couple of hours we stopped off in a small to buy food for my cook group and buy some lunch which involved my first trip to the renowned 'Nandos' chicken restaurant. I had decided to start eating some meat and break my vegan diet in order to improve my protein intake which is something I had given myself permission to do prior to the trip.
We soon arrived at the nearby hotel and campsite, 'Sedia Riverside Hotel', which had a sandy campground and a nice, if expensive, restaurant and a very nice long pool. We rested by the pool in the afternoon and had a well needed dip in the pool as the heat was almost unbearable. It was the kind of blistering hot weather where you needed to stay in the shade. We had a meal cooked by the cook group in the evening and all got nearly nights ahead of another early start in the morning. The crickets and seemingly infinite multitudes of insects chirped loudly as I crawled off to sleep in the hot and humid night.Leggi altro