Four hours in a truck on washboard, an hour and a half in a speed boat winding through papyrus, a half hour in another truck on a sand road and then an hour in a mokoro (dugout canoe) - this brings you into the Okavango Delta, an enormous expanse of hippo infested marsh where the Okavango River meets the Kalahari Desert, the largest river on earth not to reach the sea.
Here we bush camped for two nights under fruit bats and stars. Here Manpower and Ciga ("like cigarette ") guided us and showed us the difference between elephant, hippopotamus, baboon, and impala poo. Here Manpower demonstrated the impala poo spitting game. Here we swam among the reeds ("no, no crocodile right now") and sang (sort of) and danced (also sort of). Here we stared at the campfire drinking beer and lay anxiously in our sleeping bags, our bladders quietly stretching, as we listened to hippos and elephants ambling by our tents.
Almost halfway.
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