{"id":14960,"date":"2016-04-04T13:26:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T12:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=14960"},"modified":"2016-04-04T13:26:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T12:26:49","slug":"25086-25087-chobe-safari-drive-maun-kasane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=14960","title":{"rendered":"25086 and 25087 Chobe Safari Drive – Maun to Kasane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sat 2 April 2016 to Sun 3 April 2016<\/p>\n

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KG with the bike in the Land Cruiser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The larger than life character KG (Kgaga) appeared with his Toyota Land Cruiser to take me and my bike to the camping place near\u00a0Savuti. We had an instant rapport especially since he is a carnivore and I a vegetarian but both Leo’s \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Strange to be sat in a vehicle all day and Moves\u00a0scored the lowest step count ever for me 1,302 \ud83d\ude41 although bad old Fitbit made it 9,149 due to the vehicle bouncing around so much.<\/p>\n

It was a splendid drive once in the National Park to see dazzles (not herds) of Zebras was excellent and several\u00a0\u00a0journey’s of Giraffes. We came to the campsite as KG was errecting the\u00a0splendid safari tent \u00a0I suddenly thought why not sleep in the tent I’ve been lugging around for 7 weeks. Talk about bad decisions it became literally a sauna! sweat poured of me for the first hour or two and condensation was dripping everywhere \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

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OK guys I’m full please stop staring at me!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once camp was up KG said we were now going on a 3 hour safari around the park, a big surprise for me, my own personal safari with a leading guide \ud83d\ude42 see the photographs for what we saw, humungous elephant with a stunning ending, a lazy full, lion who\u00a0yawned in front of us like some house cat \ud83d\ude42 I learnt from KG that if you are camping and hear a lion or other animal nearby do not open the zip! To a lion a tent is an inanimate object not worth attacking whereas a worried face certainly is. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I then cooked my pasta and sauce over the fire whilst KG had his steak and beef sausages (no pork here). and so to my sauna \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

At 5.30a, after a night listening to lions shouting at each other, \u00a0we were up again for another 3 hour safari with not that much wildlife to begin with although it was interesting to see other homo sapiens and guessing how much they had paid for the night according to their dress and photo equipment \ud83d\ude42 KG saw the leopard tracks but alas no leopards. However, we did meet another couple of lions who just couldn’t be bothered to chase the nearby wildebeest and chose to do a bit of brotherly love instead.<\/p>\n

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An angry Honey Badger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Amazing tours and then we were off down the worst sand tracks, where we had a confrontation with a Honey Badger snarling and screaming at me, way more frightening than lions or elephants \ud83d\ude41 thank goodness we were in the car, although the window was open. KG said it was because the car had become between him and his mate \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

At Muchenje I felt bad bombing down the tarmac road in the car \ud83d\ude41 we finally made it to my previously booked b&b The Old House in Kasane on the banks of The\u00a0Chobe.<\/p>\n

Lots of pics here <\/a>and here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

We did a total of 480km! (300 miles) and poor KG had to drive all the way back! although I guess it’s probably 2oo miles without the game drives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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