Day 29 and 30: Okavango Delta

Well, today we are on our way back to Botswana, heading for Seronga. It's 10h30am when we finally arrived at our meeting point; after cr...

Well, today we are on our way back to Botswana, heading for Seronga. It's 10h30am when we finally arrived at our meeting point; after crossing the border, taking a ferry, and having an African massage for 2 hours (name given for bumpy road!)
We are now getting introduce to our Mokoro team, which will guide us and poll through the Okavango delta. That's just magical!




After the laugh of installing ourselves in the mokoro (2 persons per Mokoro, no brutal movement - pulling your head up to see a bird is consider as a 'brutal movement'), we start polling through meandering clear waterways. Our guide and poller is James, an amazing guide that already worked in many national parks, and that cannot stop speaking!!! He tells us many stories about himself and finally about the Delta! We are on direction of Goa Island where we will stay for bush camping away from civilisation. We are on the middle of so much life. This ecosystem is filled with a diversity of flora (reeds and lily pads) and fauna that includes hippo, croco, elephants and many birds species. It's such a peaceful world that get sometimes shattered by the deep grunting of hippos!
When arrived to Goa island, John, the tour leader, give us a walk around the island. A very slow pace tour as he explain us all about trees, plants, animal prints and poo!!! Well he even tried to make us eat elephant poo! We didn't but he actually did, that caused an hysterical group laugh! Well I can tell you that we learned so much that day. As westerners we have so much a-priories.
At night, our Mokoro team (local tribesman) start singing and dancing around the fire. What we didn't know, it's that we had to participate as well... By self-respect, we will not tell you more about this evening!
Next day, back again on mokoro boats in direction of another island for a walking safari. Then we head to Umvuvu camp, where we will spend the 2nd night. Our guides challenges us to poll ourselves their mokoro. It was the best fun ever, and we were very lucky not to finish on the water! We finished the day with a fantastic sunset.










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