Scholars, this is my 8th Intrepid tour and never have we gone harder, that is gettin’ up early and going hard all day. So we did that again at Goo Moremi and off we went to experience the Makgadikgadi Salt Pan and the Nata Bird Sanctuary. After settling in, we went on a safari into the vast nothingness, the far flung flats of Makgadikgadi/Nata, experiencing a few lonely animals (wildebeasts and a hyena), very few plants (but a big baobab), and a whole lotta open space…

Out in the biggest expanse of emptiness we had a cold one while watching the sun set…

The next morning, after watching the sun set, we watched it rise again – after an hour already on the road! We left at 5:00 am so that we could have another safari at Chobe National Park, home to an enormous number of elephants. We saw a lot of them, along with many other animals…

In addition to elephants, buffalos, impalas, a few hippos and crocodiles, we saw some lions! We watched a giraffe get a drink. We saw kudus, elands, and a rare kind of antelope whose name escapes me. Here’s the last batch for this post…

After Chobe, we powered on the border and crossed into Zimbabwe. It wasn’t much farther until we made it to the Victoria Falls Village. And that is gonna be a whole other post.

But first, here are a bunch of pix from my fellow travelers that they have shared on our Whats App group…

Enjoy!