Guma Lagoon Camp

We decided to go away for a night, so I jumped on the net and looked up potential places to stay.
Ended up picking Guma Lagoon Camp.
Simon and Vanessa decided to join us.

It is about 300km from our place, at the top end of the Okavango Delta.

We headed off early, you go to Toteng (where I work) and continue to Sehithwa where you turn North on to the Shakawe road. You all know that way I am sure :-)

You turn off at Etsha 13, yes there is an Etsha 1, 2, 3 etc.
Then about 20km of sand 4X4 driving to reach the Camp.

The Road in to the camp

 

 

The Bar area.

 

 

The Girls enjoy a drink.

 

 

The Bar/Restaurant Area

 

 

The "Tents"

 

 

Sleeping in a tent is easy here!

 

 

The Shower

 

 

The rest of the en suite.

 

 

Rain storm reflection

 

 

The Nguma Lagoon gives some of the best reflection

you will ever see.

 

 

 

This amazing sunset/reflection shot was from the sunset cruise we

went on, hard to pick the sky from the reflection hey!

 

 

Sunset

Sunrise

Make sure you click on the picture to see it full size.

See if you can see the crocodile in this one.

 

 

Etsha 13

 

 

On the second day we drove further north, all the way to the Namibia Border, we did not go over, that is for another trip.

 

 

On the way back we stopped at "Crocavango", a crocodile farm that gives guided tours. We paid our 25 Pula each and had a 1 hour tour with our own guide.

This is their 5.5metre croc.

 

 

There is 700 1year old crocks in this enclosure.

 

 

We found this little guy on the road.

 

 

It is a Serrated Tortoise, they live in the desert.

 

 

 

                                                  

A local Scarecrow

There is always a LOT of animals on the roads here.

Night driving is actually not advised outside of towns.

Usually the cows move off with a toot of the horn.......

Not this guy, stood his ground and I had to come to a complete stop before it moved.

 

 

Our cars look like they are in a Mitsubishi advert here.

 

 

The whole of this area is overrun with donkeys.

Have seen alot of written off cars from these guys.

 

This was a great trip away, the camp is great and a decent price.
1800 Pula for the accommodation, 3 course dinner, sunset cruise, and hot breakfast.
You can take your own drinks too.

Have to recommend this trip and camp, Great all round.
Get over here to see this and more!!!!!!!!!

Quick Trip To Francistown Part 2

The trip home was a good one for seeing animals.

This is a freaky looking boabab tree in one of the villages we went through

 

 

Some local transport

 

 

Coming into Nata

 

 

The locals

 

 

More Ostrich.......

 

 

Wow... our first Gemsbok

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemsbok

 

Awsome animal to see in the wid

 

 

Not sure on the correct pronunciation of this one.....

 

 

Michelles first Kudu,my first male.

 

 

These things are huge.

 

 

Impressive in the wild, better on the BBQ.

Kudu meat is the best meat we have ever had, lean, not to gamey

and better than the best beef you can buy.

At the moment we have a roast, mince and biltong in the freezer.

 

 

On the move

 

 

We enjoyed the visit to Francistown, it is always good to see a new place, but the drive each way was the highlight.

Quick trip to Francistown Part 1

Michelle, Mitsy & Vanessa needed to go to Francistown to purchase items for the new units, there is a greater range of shops than Maun.
We volenteered to drive our car, give it a good test run. It is pretty much spot on 500km to get there.

The drive was very interesting, you go through two national parks.

This first group of photos is from the trip there.....

Francistown was all about the shopping,didn't get the camera out.
There are larger shops, about the size of K-Mart.
We stayed at one of the Cresta motels overnight, nice rooms.
It even had a casino!
If you call 30 poker machines and an elctronic roulette table a casino.

The second day was more shopping then head off home.

I will put the trip home on the next post......