Friday, November 7, 2008

Chobe River

Since I am now writing this 3 months after the trip, the level of detail will probably drop. But hopefully I can still remember enough to pull you along on the trip with me.

After a night of drinking at Nada we got off to a slower start the next morning. This was also due to the fact that all our tents were crowded into a 10x10 area and one girl in the group was snoring like a banshee. It got so bad Adam and Dani, the Australian couple on the trip, dragged their tent away in the middle of the night. We eventually got on the road heading for Kasane and the Chobe River. The drive was uneventful, just the normal pee breaks for the Australian girls and Ben, the British/Aussie (more about him later). When we got to Kisana our first stop was in town to buy groceries and alcohol. The town is right on the Chobe River and more importantly right next to the ferry crossing into Zambia. For these reasons it is a huge stop for tourist and overland trucks and an even bigger stop for Africans. Now when I call this place a town you have to think in terms of African towns. The town consisted of 1 road and 1 shopping center and I think everyone within 100 miles was there. The super market was overloaded with people, lines 15 people deep and bare shelves. Our guide Garland said he had never seen anything like it in his 9 years of guiding.