On the road in Botswana

Our first (of many) long drive from Chobe to our next stop in Elephant Sands.

Changing landscape

Jan freaked out when he saw this and made Jimmy (our driver) stop and back up on the main road so we could see this creature: a Sable antelope. Not the most common animal to see, so pretty cool.
Hard to get a picture of an animal in brush though.

Botswana has a lot of issues with foot and mouth diseaseSo we periodically had to go through checkpoints, get out of the busWalk through a salt solution... and hope this stopped the spread. I have my doubts, but... hey.

I thought these guys looked cool as they carried their firewood. I never did get a good picture of women carrying things on their heads, but I saw it everywhere

Here we saw the tail end of a roan antelope, and poor Jimmy had to screech to a halt again

No picture since that thing could move. Nice chance to stretch the legs though

We did see a giraffe on this stop though

he didn't like us getting too close

pretty thing