MOUre Amateur Traveler episode 639. Today the amateur traveler talks about lions and leopards and African

wild dogs, wildebeas, water bucks, and mere cats as we go to Botswana on safari. Welcome to a special episode of Amateur Traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen.

Let's talk about Botswana.

This is Chris and this is going to be a different episode of Amateur Traveler.

I'm recording some of this while I am still on a mobile safari in Botswana in the Okavanga Delta.

I just got up on our first full day and the stars are still out.

The wake-up call this morning was at 8.30 and I have some time while I wait for other people to stumble out of their tents.

So I thought I would start doing this recording. I got here because I was invited to come by

Botswana Trek and more about them later, but that is basically who is hosting me on this. We're on a safari with the royal wilderness.

And this is an odd place, a unique and wonderful place, but an odd place in the sense that it is an inland delta.

It is where the waters from rivers that start in the highlands of Angola flow south into Botswana and then basically disappear into the Kalahari

desert. It's an inverted five-fingered hand of water coming into the desert and so every place we go is a very

sandy soil that has been brought to life and a great variety of life by this

water that is flowing down from the north.

Much of the area is National Parks, Chobe National Park, probably one of the most famous which we drove through just a little yesterday

and just saw an amazing variety of animals. We saw wilde beasts and zebras and lots and

of elephants and a few giraffes

and bird life just unimaginable

and water bucks and I don't remember what else we have seen so far.

We flew into Maune, which is at the bottom of the delta, a city in Botswana flew in from Johannesburg, most of us, the best connection point to get in.

And then yesterday we drove in get in.

And then yesterday we drove in, we're going to do two campsites, three nights each, and then

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