{"id":17,"date":"2018-04-02T06:09:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T06:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wsteemers.com\/Africa\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2018-04-03T05:29:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T05:29:17","slug":"botswana","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wsteemers.com\/Africa\/botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Botswana is a remarkably modern country, its development helped by the find of large diamond deposits shortly after independence. Its major natural features include the Kalahari Desert, where the original so-called Bushmen used to live, and which we didn’t visit; the Okavanga Delta, which is a unique place in that it is the only place in the world where a river does not run into a lake, sea or ocean, but rather it runs into the desert and peters out; and Chobe National Park, which is one of the most impressive gameparks in Southern Africa.<\/b><\/p>\n

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We visited the Okavanga Delta, which is only accessible by Mokoros (the canoes you see above). We camped out in the Delta for two nights.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Among the things we saw were fish eagles and mating hippos (doesn’t he seem to have fun? – you had to be there to appreciate the sound…)<\/b><\/p>\n

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We went to a place called Tsodilo Hills, where there are some ancient rockpaintings (left); on our way there was the first time we had to dig the truck out, using sandmats as in this picture…(right)<\/b><\/p>\n

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Baboons in Chobe National Park<\/b><\/p>\n

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A large crocodile in Chobe National Park (it seems our cameras scared him away)<\/b><\/p>\n

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Chobe has one some of the largest elephant herds in the world<\/applet><\/b><\/p>\n

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Hippos in and out of the water<\/b><\/p>\n

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And of course, lots of antelope like this impala<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Botswana is a remarkably modern country, its development helped by the find of large diamond deposits shortly after independence. Its major natural features include the Kalahari Desert, where the original so-called Bushmen used to live, and which we didn’t visit; the Okavanga Delta, which is a unique place in that it is the only place … Continue reading “Botswana”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsteemers.com\/Africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsteemers.com\/Africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsteemers.com\/Africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsteemers.com\/Africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsteemers.com\/Africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wsteemers.com\/Africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/wsteemers.com\/Africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsteemers.com\/Africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}