I highly recommend starting your day with a 1.5 hour mokoro ride through the Okavango Delta, which of course is how we rolled on day 16. The ride back was incredibly peaceful in the early morning sunlight and Jane and I took some excellent photos, including some of an adorable little frog that decided to […]
This might be one of my absolute favorite days of the entire tour so far… On day 15 we got up hella early (I really should stop saying that, since “hella early” is basically normal on Desert Tracker…) and headed to the mokoro station to head to… THE OKAVANGO DELTA Mara, our safari truck, couldn’t […]
Day 13 For some reason, I get really excited about border crossing days. I don’t know if it’s because I really like getting the new stamps, or because I’ve never really done land crossings before, or what… but I woke up super excited (and super early, since I needed to use the Urban Camp WiFi […]
So I mentioned that in Swakopmund on day 8 we picked up three newbies to the tour, Lena, Johanna and Kris… I didn’t say much else since, well, I didn’t really know much else, but now I do so I figured I’d give you a little insight into The Perfect Ten’s “Plus Three”: The Germans […]
On day 12, we had to say goodbye to Etosha and head towards Windhoek, the capital city of Namibia. It’s REALLY starting to get hot, and we had a TON to do when we got to Windhoek, so we unpacked pretty quickly upon arrival at Urban Camp (which is adorable AND has WiFi, if you’re […]
So the Acacia Africa Desert Tracker Tour that I’m a part of is conducted (as are most, from what I understand), in English. Now, you’d think that speaking the same language, we would all, well, understand each other. That’s where things get interesting. Just to jog your memory, our group consists of: Two Kiwis, Three […]
Day 10 After our epic cheetah adventure, our wildlife viewing was only beginning – on Day 11 we started heading towards Etosha National Park for our stint of game drives in one of Namibia’s largest National Parks/Wildlife reserves. What’s really cool about the “park” is that the animals are just going about their normal lives, […]
This morning we got to sleep in until checkout of Amanpuri at 10 since we only had a drive of 150 kilometers. I actually woke up naturally at around 8:30am and popped off to the breakfast café. Apparently included in our accommodations was hot breakfast, so I ordered scrambled eggs with cheese and “very cooked” […]
I can’t even begin to articulate the insanity of this day, so please bear with me while I attempt to recreate everything for you all. After our night out, I did one of my typical “wake up 5 minutes before I need to go somewhere” act, and I had a decent headache from the night […]
Day six was another drive day so this will be short and sweet! We hopped on the bus in the morning and I zipped myself in my sleeping bag on my seat to take a nap. I was dozing for a while when I woke up to an “OH SHIT!” and “Stop the truck!” I […]
