Biking
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25090 A walking day at Victoria Falls
Wednesday 6th April I didn’t sleep at all well, maybe it was the excitement of visiting the Victoria Falls a childhood dream or maybe it was the bed! The previous evening had been pretty awful with all the locals dossing about watching football 🙁 plus a silly ticketing system at the bar. Unfortunately for me…
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25089 Biking Kasane to Victoria Falls
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 I left The Old House jut before 8am after the owner rescued the girl from faffing about on her ancient Windows PC trying to sort the bill out. The day started with a brisk headwind as you can see from the flags image and a climb of cause. Reaching the main…
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25088 Chobe River Excursion
Today was a rest day in Kasang catching up on my posts and getting my images online whilst my Botswana SIM card still works. The Old House b&b has a frontage onto The Chobe River just before it merges with The Zambezi. They offer a 3 hour river trip heading along the Chobe National Park.…
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25086 and 25087 Chobe Safari Drive – Maun to Kasane
Sat 2 April 2016 to Sun 3 April 2016 The larger than life character KG (Kgaga) appeared with his Toyota Land Cruiser to take me and my bike to the camping place near Savuti. We had an instant rapport especially since he is a carnivore and I a vegetarian but both Leo’s 🙂 Strange to be…
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25084 to 25085 – Resting & Planning in Maun
Thurs 31 March and Friday 1st April Sarah & Scott had cycled the route I intended doing, down The Elephant Road from Kasingula to Nata then across to Maun. A distance of about 382 miles on tarmac, they however had camped & carried food. In my youth I would have just done it but age…
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25083 -Biking from Sehithwa to Maun in Botswana
Wed 30 March 2016 After not a very good sleep I woke to find no promised breakfast, a total absence of vehicles or any sign of life in the courtyard. So at 7.45 I departed from Monlek Lodge with not very warm feelings towards it’s owner, especially since my 15 Pula change never appeared after…
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Day 25082 Ghanzi to Sehithwa
Ridden 29 Mar 2016 After yesterdays rest day were the checkout supervisor at Choppies kindly sorted out my Orange SIM card for me, although I felt a bit bad about giving Orange 400 Pula so I could buy 2 gigs of data. The retail shop wages are 4.32 an hour so it’s nearly the equivalent of 100…
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Day 25080 Tsootsha to Ghanzi
Easter Sunday 27 Mar 2016 After a mega sleep of over 9 hours I went outside to find my biking shorts & top were as wet as I left them after washing last night YUK. I had an equally mega breakfast cooked by Rianne. I cleaned the bike of its creepie crawlies and then we…
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Day 25079 Zelda Game& Guest Farm to Tsootsha
Sat 26 Mar 2016 For the first time ever, I had to be woken up for my breakfast! So I finally didn’t get away until 8.45. I arrived at the East Gate rest camp/shops on the border in 1 hour. Crossing the borders was straightforward apart from unnecessary complications with money changing etc. For future…
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Day 37/25078 West Nest Lodge to Zelda Guest Farm
I was grateful for my glamping tent last night as the heavens opened up at 4am 🙁 Later the sky was red before the rising sun promising more rain which duly happened 🙁 After breakfast I got my lift back to the West Nest roadside campsite where I had left the bike filled the bottles with…