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Liwonde Park, Cold Drinks & Ilala Palms
Our roof top tent pops up once again, but this time at Liwonde Safari Camp which I like a lot. The camp has a great Gaudi-esque feel to it
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Into Malawi, Family & Fresh Water Diving
The sunsets over Lake Malawi on the first two evenings are incredible. Fishermen in their proud boats chug along on the often smooth waters sending ripples through the colours of sunset
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Chipata to South Luangwa National Park, Warthogs & Lions
Under the sausage trees we find a hippo every once in a while munching comically on the fruit in the spot light.
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Choosing Routes, Copper & Luangwa River
Leaving the Zambezi River and Livingstone behind us we head up to Lusaka and one of the Great roads. We haven’t decided which one as of yet.
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Kazungula, Bridges & Four Countries Meet
This area is where four countries meet. Up until the year 2000, it was largely uncertain due to shifting river banks and ambiguous colonial era imposed map drawing whether this area is a quad-border or not.
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Savuti, Kalahari Sands & Endless Grasslands
Even in this dry waterless Savuti channel era, the never ending view of tall grasslands of the Savuti Marsh are incredible and still frequented and enjoyed by elephant, antelope and all other accompanying game.
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The Okavango, Khwai & Community Development
It is September and the Kalahari Apple Leaf trees are flowering in a violet haze. There is a maze of kalahari sand tracks leading haphazardly through the grasses often ending abruptly in some seasonal marshland
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Makgadikgadi Pans, Kubu Island & The Middle of Nowhere
To me, the Makgadikgadi Pans are maybe a dim memory of David Attenborough’s voice, a few rain drops splashing in slow motion on a dry and dusty surface followed by an excited zebra dashing somewhere.
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Return To Botswana in the Dry Season
We barrel through the middle of Botswana which is relatively flat, scrubby and consistently so through-out the first 350 kilometers.
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Fish River Canyon, Ais Ais & Burning Bushes
We turn down a final gravel road to Hobas. One of the few access points to the Fish River Canyon
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