BOTSWANA - jeep safari

The first half of our day was to go on a 'jeep' safari. This was a larger 'jeep' with bench seats in the bed of the truck and a canvas room. After we had been about 20 minutes into the safari - the skies just broke open and poured and poured. We had to stand as the water was hitting the bench seats and then running to the left/right depending on the direction the jeep was leaning as it drove along the road and ruts. Soon the water started flowing down the road making giant ruts etc. We opted to not return back to camp but to keep sticking it out - the guide (who had been doing this for 20+ years) indicated and another group (not related to us) had decided to bail - but he said he liked our group cause we were 'sticking with it'!!!! after about 40-50 minutes it stopped and started to clear out and we started to see more wildlife.

Once were were done - we were heading down to a large lodge that had a big buffet for lunch. We were running a bit late - and as we came aound a corner there were 2 wild elephants along the road munching on tree leaves!! We had no time to go back and could not pull over - that was the extent of our 'elephant shots'; just in our mind! Due to the late and heavy rains the plains were still flooded and the elephants had not yet come 'down from the hills'. A MWB group that did the same thing a year ago (also in April) had seen thousands of elephants! All about timing!

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After lunch we had to head to the boat for the boat safari - which was docked at the resturant.....

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