Our next stop after leaving Hoanib in Namibia would be Chitabe in Botswana, a relatively short distance, but at least a three stage process no matter how you looked at it, and complicated by the elimination of a key flight by the airline in 2015 due to dwindling passenger numbers. So there was no way we could get from where we were to Chitabe in one day! We started with a milk run flight from our camp to the Rhino Camp a short distance east…….picked up two passengers there, then off to Doro Nawas, the dirt airstrip hub, jumped into a new plane taking us to Windhoek, the capital of Namibia and a real airport…….waited there for a bit then flew to Johannesburg…….overnight at the Intercontinental airport hotel…….very very nice…….then the next morning we flew to Maun, Botswana, and finally a small Cessna to Chitabe. The flight the airline cancelled was from Windhoek to Maun, which would have put us in Chitabe Camp yesterday afternoon, but it is what it is, and we are here now…….staying in the Okavanga Delta………a rich river fed area in the northern Kalahari Desert……..perfect conditions for all wildlife, however we are just at the end of the dry season, everyone is waiting for the rains.
The massive herds won’t return to our part of the delta until the rain feeds the rivers, and the rivers flood the delta, but we still have our hopes set high.
Our first ride of the day
Goodbye Hoanib
It looked like a Mars landscape at the Rhino Camp
Coming into Rhino Camp
HUGEBLOGSITE 
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