{"id":39,"date":"2008-06-03T11:18:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T18:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/?p=39"},"modified":"2008-06-03T11:31:14","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T18:31:14","slug":"botswana-safari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/2008\/06\/03\/botswana-safari\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Safari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After our stay In Livingstone, Meghan and I departed on our Safari adventure. We had an AMAZING time. We traveled with a very nice company &#8211; <a title=\"Wilderness Safaris\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wilderness-safaris.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wilderness Safaris<\/a> &#8211; that provides for an exceptional safari experience. We stayed in small Safari &#8220;camps,&#8221; situated throughout the Okavango Delta and the Linyanti Spillway areas of North-Eastern Botswana.\u00a0 Each camp held 12 &#8211; 20 people in luxurious semi-permenant tents (think Curry Village in Yosemite, but really really nice).<\/p>\n<p>We flew bush planes into our first camp, and between camps.\u00a0 The planes were little prop-planes seating 5-15 passengers and the airstrips were little more than clearings in the bush &#8211;\u00a0Bumpy landings and short take-offs\u00a0for sure!<\/p>\n<p>Each day was pretty similar from camp-to-camp.\u00a0 Our routine went something like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wake up call at 5:30 or 6:00 AM<\/li>\n<li>Breakfast (light meal) at 6:00 or 6:30 AM<\/li>\n<li>Game Drive until about 10:00 to 10:30<\/li>\n<li>(during the morning game drive of course we would stop for tea)<\/li>\n<li>Brunch (second breakfast!) at 11:00<\/li>\n<li>Siesta from 12:00 to 3:30<\/li>\n<li>Tea at 3:30<\/li>\n<li>Game Drive from 4:00 to 7:30<\/li>\n<li>(during the afternoon game drive, a stop for a sundowner (Gin &amp; Tonic of course)<\/li>\n<li>Dinner at 8:00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, as you can see, we were really suffering.\u00a0 I think I finally understand what it means to be British.<\/p>\n<p>We saw an exceptional variety of wildlife\u00a0&#8211; easily 70 or more species during our trip.\u00a0 It was too amazing for words.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t recommend enough that everyone do this, however they try to struggle to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I have LOTS of photos and I will publish many of them once I&#8217;m back at my computer and able to reliably download images from my camera onto a computer and up to the internet.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t wait to see many of the images myself and I can only hope that they come out as well as I can remember the scenes unfolding before my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>As a highlight, we saw Lions, Cheetah, Leopards, Elephants, Hippo, Cape Buffalo, Giraffes, Baboons, Wart Hogs, Jackyls, Hyenas, Wildebeasts, Aardwolfs, Bat-Eared Fox, Gennets, Civets, and about 7 different species of antelopes.\u00a0 We also saw birds, birds, and birds.\u00a0 Oh, and more birds.\u00a0 And some Owls and Bats.<\/p>\n<p>We did not see any kills or feeding (for better and worse) though we did see a little attempt and some aftermath.\u00a0 The amazing thing overall is just sitting in the open-air vehicle watching these animals so close up.\u00a0 I just can&#8217;t do it justice sitting in this internet cafe rushed for time.<\/p>\n<p>Meghan and I both hope to be able to return for another Safari experience (and hopefully soon!) and we&#8217;ve come to realize how easy it would be to make a trip here and do a safari without needing a month-long trip.\u00a0 Reallly with a 2-week vacation it would be very possible from the states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After our stay In Livingstone, Meghan and I departed on our Safari adventure. We had an AMAZING time. We traveled with a very nice company &#8211; Wilderness Safaris &#8211; that provides for an exceptional safari experience. We stayed in small Safari &#8220;camps,&#8221; situated throughout the Okavango Delta and the Linyanti Spillway areas of North-Eastern Botswana.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/2008\/06\/03\/botswana-safari\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Botswana Safari&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}