Life with MK: Chobe (8/5/2013)

Today I got up a little earlier than I needed to in order to enjoy Elephant Sands a bit before we headed to the northern border of Botswana. I wanted to use the Internet, but the generator went on yet, and therefore the Internet also wasn't on. Instead I enjoyed the sunrise and watched the pack of wild dogs that had come to the water hole after their kill for, the pervious night. There were also a lot of different birds including hornbills, so it was quite a lovely morning. After the sunrise I went to take down my tent and then went back to use the wifi really quickly before leaving. It's amazing how while camping I don't feel the need to use wifi constantly since I don't have access to it usually. It's quite nice sometimes, but I definitely don't know what is going on at home or anywhere in the world for that matter.

Once we left Elephant Sands we drove north towards the northern border. There wasn't too much too see, but we did come across a few kudus and some elephants along the drive. We got up to the Chobe National Park area by 11am and stopped at the grocery store to get food for lunch, dinner, and breakfast tomorrow. After the stop we made the quick drive to our campsite at the Thebe River Lodge in Kasane and had sandwiches for lunch.

After lunch we had some free time before meeting at 2:45pm to go on a river safari cruise on the Chobe river. The section that we were on separates Botswana from Namibia, so I have now at the very lest seen Namibia, haha. The cruise was really nice as the scenery was quite beautiful and there were a lot of animals. We saw a ton of elephants (I must admit those sightings have become so common that they aren't that exciting anymore), hippos, red lechwe (a type of antelope), water buck, giraffes, buffalo, various birds (including a very cool African fish eagle), crocodiles, baboons, and large lizards. Again, it's very likely that I forgot something we saw. We also watched the sunset over the Chobe and Namibia which was quite beautiful.

After the cruise we went back to camp and a delicious chicken and mushroom bake was waiting for us at the campsite. We ate dinner and then heard about the program for tomorrow and then I took a much needed shower. After my shower I had makeshift s'mores with the ingredients I bought at the grocery store before lunch. I say makeshift because the marshmallows were called "yumallows" and were strawberry and vanilla flavor combined and there were so graham crackers so I used coconut tea biscuits. They were delicious anyways, so yum! After dessert we chatted for a bit and now it's time for bed. Can't believe tomorrow is already my last full day in Africa after such a long trip!