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This picture is of us having breakfast in Mabuasehube Game Resort after the first night. Note the open car door.
My friend is scanning the pan with the binoculars, to look for wildlife.

The idea was that we would sleep in tents. On arrival they told me they had camped before, and found lion's footprints all around their tent one morning.
That made me decide to sleep in the car... I'm not courageous.

In the car it was very hot, and I couldn't keep the window open, partly out of fear a lion would try to fish me out with his paw. And when I rolled the window down one centimetre / inch, within half a minute I had all kinds of bugs coming in, and plenty of them.
Then every time I was nearly asleep, the antenna went 'doing!'. It took me a while to figure out in the pitch dark that a bat apparently mistook the tip of the antenna for a savoury bit.

On arrival the previous day, before we went to sleep, we had some food. It went dark early, so they brought out a flood light, which was made to swerve over the surroundings. I thought that was so convenient!

I also kept closing the car door... and they kept opening it.

At some point they explained that the flood light was convenient, but really served to keep a close eye on wildlife in general, and lions in particular. And that the door of the car was to remain open all the time while we were out, because we would not have more than a split second to get in the car and close the door if a lion would show up.

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megabelle2000

I just found your answer to me so very long ago....sorry I missed it way back then. We slept in tents in a safari camp in savuti....it was fabulous, had a floor, roll up canvas “windows” covered in netting...a zippered doorway etc...we were told not to venture out in the night no matter what. That there would be a guard to act in case of emergency etc... Our tents were under a tree that was bearing tasty (to elephant) long bean like seed pods that did drop onto the roof of the tent....AND the elephants did come to collect them, sweeping their trunks across the canvas roof tops....and they were very noisy about it!!! Quite startling...we rolled up the window to see what the noise was all about and could see “nothing” but darkness.....the darkness was the elephant!!!!
It seems you all were traveling in your own vehicle.... We were not...we flew in little planes between camps and then were driving around each area in an camp vehicle with a quide....we were spoiled rotten and loved every minute of it. There were 7 of us..... It was a most special holiday!

AllieB2

Great adventure - never made it myself yet but like you I would not feel safe in a tent where large wild animals roam!!! Good night - off to bed now :-) x

ikook

All is well that ends well, Lia. I'm glad everything works the way it should. Don't forget your password when you're not using Travelia!

Travelia

No, I received answers to my mails! It took a while, but I was helped!

ikook

I read about it on Travelia, Lia. Did they answer your mail, or did the problem disappear all by itself?

Travelia

Hi Marry. Yes my problems to get onto my page are over, but.... I have no more good photo's of my England trip, so I am stopping with travelia for the time being and just keeping things up on Lia!!

ikook

't Was ook een echt avontuur, Anne. Alsof ik in een documentaire verzeild was geraakt... Ik had me dat van tevoren helemaal niet gerealiseerd, dat Afrika echt zo is, en dat ik dat zou meemaken. Maar 't begon al op de reis van de hoofdstad naar het dorp, met apen in de elektriciteitsleidingen en kuddes gazellen springend naast de weg.

ikook

A once in a lifetime, Suzy :-))

ikook

I see you were in the North of Botswana, Belle. Like you, I was there in winter, february / march. I was in the Southwest, though, near South Africa. During the day the insects were few, but from dusk there were plenty. When we sat ouside, my friend would have a candle burning in a wash basin with water. The bugs would scorch their wings, then drown. It was the only way to sit outside and enjoy the cool of evening. I remember the sounds all around. The first night I slept with the window ajar... Only one night. I was fortunate to sleep under a mosquito net. Also, one of the cats came in, I heard something squeaking, and bones being splintered... next morning all I found was a small streak of blood on the floor.
My friends shared this part of their lives with me... I do some mountain walking, but my friend was on an expedition to the K5 mountain, and she and her partner climbed Kilimanjaro together.

ikook

Just a little, Dave, not all that much LOL. We have cars here, too.

ikook

Hi TRAVELia! I see your problems are over!

ikook

We never strayed very far from the car, Beth. I think I hadn't caught on yet that my friend spotted the lions.

ikook

I appreciate that, morris :-)

ikook

My niece is a head taller than I am Willy. I used to be quite tall, now many younger people are my height or taller.

AnneM57

Wat een spannende verhalen bij deze foto's. Geweldig, of je een boek leest;-)))))

pumpkinhead

Not only a TERRIFIC photo, but a camping story to beat all!!!

megabelle2000

good idea about the car door!!! You all are looking like well seasoned travelers!!! We normally only got out of our vehicles when in camp. We were told that the odor of humans was masked by the smell of the vehicles, oil and gas etc. so that is why we were safe inside. We went during their winter season, our summer. That we were told was the best time to have the fewest bugs...and I don't remember seeing any. Okavango was fabulous as well as Chobe...Victoria Falls was fascinating. Hwange was full of tourists.

warbler

Looks a little different than Amsterdam!

Travelia

Great to read this and see it!

bayhome43

wow, thanks for sharing that part of your life with us, Marry! I notice in this picture you are the closest one to the jeep door :-))

morris186

I wouldn't have slept in a tent, either!

ladywil2

I don't think this would be for me...On a regular place in a tent, I already do not sleep very well.
You are indeed tall. I am also, like Lunie, 1.6. But all Dutch people after me were a lot taller and they are still growing :)

ikook

It was, morris. I have to admit they brought me to a nearby fenced in compound to spend the following night, while they went back to sleep in their tent.

morris186

Must have been a very interesting and exciting trip, Marry!!

ikook

...so what should we do when we meet... you use stilts, or me walk on my knees?
I'm going to catch some sleep Lunie. Have a nice day!

Dilubreuer

Ikook you would be towering over me...lol! Am a dwarf at about 1.6 m compared to your 1.8...lol!

ikook

I really wasn't prepared for this, Lunie. I had no clue.
And I am taller than average for women of my generation, but not among the tallest. And the next generation is taller again... I'm 1.8 m.

ikook

Thanks for dropping by and taking an interest, siouxzn, my pleasure :-)

Dilubreuer

Ikook, if you weren't courageous enough, you wouldn't have gone to that place...these exotic places, Botswana, The Africa's...are always on my mind...am intrigued at those wild animals in Safari, the lovely sunset in that Kenyan mountain Prince William so loved and where she proposed to Kate...etc... the list is just long... I see you to be a tall woman there...

siouxzn

Wow! So interesting, thank you for sharing.

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