Botswana - the wildlife

After a hot day on the road from the Zimbabwean/Botswanan border to Francistown we meet our first couchsurfer host: Meredith, who has been living in Francistown for 20 years. She is running a tree nursery and a café with a lovely Lasagne! Our intended 2-day stay turns out to become more of a 1-week-we-don't-want-to-leave-anymore! First we start with a flashmob for breast cancer awareness (there is a video, but no, it won't be posted!), then she tells us all about the wonderful Okavango Delta and we end up renting a car to visit the Makhgadikhgadi salt pans, Maun, Moremi NP, Savuti NP and Chobe River front. We do 1'700 km in 8 days, what would take us 6 weeks on a bicycle. It's holidays!
So be prepared: there are lots pictures of animals!

Fire-prevention corridor.

Secret island!!! No coordinates, no hints ;-))

The salt pans.

Closeup: it's like mud and if you drive on it, don't stop, your car might drown.

Planet Baobab: a wonderful place. Where is Yann?

Hornbill or banana bird!

Moremi NP: lots lots lots of animals. Here an impala...

... a warthog...

What can you see on this picture?

Moremi NP: arriving on the campsite we are welcomed by this beautiful snake

Moremi NP: breakdown in the park: Chantal looks out for wild animals while Yann tries to understand the functioning of the high lift jack and changes the tyre!

water = green

Lions! Chantal's first ones! Now we can come home!

What the lions feed on...

Lovely evening light at Khwai Community Campsite

What is this? Who will find out?

Savuti NP: it's far away from everything, but the driving is nice!

Back on Chobe River, water makes all the difference.

Baobab blossoming