After a good night rest we headed towards Kazungula, the border between Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia and Namibia. We crossed the border to Botswana, which went extremely fast. After only 30min we were already in Botswana. It was just a bit strange that we had to disinfect our shoes and drive through some kind of disinfecting liquid to avoid the Mouth and Claw disease in Botswana. After only 15 minutes driving we saw a huge amount of baboons next to the ‘highway’. A bit later we even saw elephants a bit further away from the road. Here wildlife is also present outside the game reserves. It feels very ‘Africa’. A bit later some road works started. They created a temporary road for 135 km to be exact which is full of potholes. It was terrible!
Around 14h we arrived at Nata Lodge where we were supposed to camp. At the last minute we decided to book a chalet as we still have to camp the next 3 nights. The chalet is amazing, very big, bathtub in the middle of the room, outside shower, simply pure luxury.
Nata is the place to visit the Makgadikgadi Pans, an extremely huge salt pan. If you look at the whole network of dry lakes, than the Makgadikgadi Pans are the biggest in the world. Even though we did not plan to visit them we were able to book a 3 hour tour for only 15 euros. This is the salt pan that the people from Top Gear crossed a few years ago. It is very beautiful and now there’s even some water in the pan. There’s a lot of animal species living around the pan. We saw flamingos, pelicans, ostriches, blue wildebeests, springboks, etc.
Tomorrow we will go to Maun, were we are going to do a boat trip on the Okavango Delta to celebrate Hanne’s birthday (7 July!). Maun is ‘only’ a 4 hour drive, so we can sleep a bit longer tomorrow.
