The national park is one of the jewel's in botswana's tourism crown and covers 11,000 sq m. Thousands of elephants roam the park. Our chances were good.
The trip didn't let us down - the brown dots in the distance were hippo. Lots and lots of hippo. We grinned with excitement. Elephant were then spotted, and we were in luck - they crossed the river - 5 of them right in front of us. They then put on a real show Helping each other across, squirting - truly majestic creatures. The joy on the last elephants face when he gave his bum a big scratch thanks to a nearby Boabab tree was priceless.
We were all happy eating our lasagne that night - I went to sleep with a big grin.
Next morning some of us headed back into the national park to spot some more animals. It's a gorgeous park. The animal highlights were seeing two 3 day old baboons playing with their parents, seeing 2 wild dogs - a endangered species and a group of giraffe pass by our truck.
Botswana is certainly impressing.....next stop Planet Boabab campsite before heading into the delta in a brand new year.
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