Day 13 Ghanzi Botswana

Sunday December 26th. Happy Boxing Day... Sorry I wasn't there!!

We had a buffet breakfast in our hotel at 6:30 and packed and were ready to leave by 7:30. Said our sad goodbyes to Pia and Leland. We now have Bella from Sweden joining us and another American girl is missing. She was supposed to meet us but she's a no-show. We think her flight was cancelled in the States because of bad weather.

The first stop was at the Windhoek Airport to see if John's bag might be there. As it turned out it was there!! The confusion was caused by the fact that we had two people with missing bags from different flights. When our guides phoned and tried to find them, someone screwed up and put John's name of Ben's bag and vice versa. As a result no one really knew where either was. John's bag with Ben's name on it was shipped to Etosha, but when we arrived looking for John's bag they told us they didn't have it. But they didn't tell us they had one with Ben's name on it (which was actually John's!). And so on..... Now to find Ben's.

The next stop was by the side of the road as the clip holding the diesel hose had broken and we needed to repair it or burn out our clutch.

The third stop was at a grocery store in a small town that was thankfully open because the guides needed to buy some fresh food for us.

Next we stopped at the Namibia/Botswana border. The crossing was quick and painless. Shortly after that we stopped for lunch at a picnic spot beside the road.

Then, after a two hour drive we arrived at Ghanzi and the Trailmakers Camp. It had started to rain as soon as we got to Botswana, which is the Kalahari Desert. As a result the two activities that we were told we could do have been cancelled due to wet weather. We were supposed to have a bushman walk and after dinner and we were to witness a traditional bushman dance around a fire. Apparently bushman of the desert don't know how to deal with rain!

Now we are camped about ten kilometres up a dirt road beside a quarry. We all went for a swim in the clean, clear, water of the quarry. Then dinner and shortly after to bed.