School Reunion - Okavango Edition

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Xpat

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Introduction

This is a quick photo report - or rather just an excuse to post photos as I like to have trips documented somewhere before I lose the photos - on a trip around Okavango Delta (very roughly speaking) that I have done with 2 of my mates from school we all attended 21 years ago back in Europe. The whole trip consisted of two parts:

1. 10 day loop with my mates from and to Maun, including Makgadikgadi - Kubu Island, Elephant Sands, Hunters road up to Pandamatenga, Vic Falls, crossing the 19th parallel cutline from Pandamatenga to Khwai river, and safari drive through Moremi around Xakanaxa.

2. Once the rest flew back home, I circumnavigated around Okavango delta via ‘Transit road’ (i.e. overgrown double track) connecting Khwai village in the east and Seronga on the west north of the delta. On the way back to Maun I explored some remote tracks along the western border with Namibia between Tsodilo Hills and Dube.

Here is the route of the first part - will post map for the second part later once I will get to it:


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Here is the photo of the participants - inconveniently both of my mates are named Milan so I’ll use first letter of their surname to differentiate between them. From Left to right: Milan V, Milan P, myself (choking on fat cake) and David - son of Milan P:


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Vehicle-wise, I was riding KTM 690, Milan P KTM 500 and Milan V with David were chasing the bikes in Hilux.


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The rendezvous point was Maun. I have slabbed it up there from Joburg in Hilux with bikes loaded at the back, the other three slabbed it from Prague on Jumbo jet or some such to Joburg and then took Botswana Air flying coach up to Maun.

A-team on the way up to Maun- that would be KTMs, Hilux and myself:


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B-team after de-bussing their wheels in Maun:


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We stayed first night in Audi Camp, getting ourselves (mostly by adhering to strict hydration regime at the bar) and vehicles ready for set-off next day.


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I will try to keep my yapping to minimum and post mostly photos with some captions here and there as I need to finish it quickly - let’s see how that goes....
 
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