This time, we really are heading out of our borders, into ‘real Africa’. Stu and Viv
head north for Botswana, stopping in Gaborone to find out what makes another
cosmopolitan Southern African city tick, before heading on the Francistown Road
for Nata. They arrive in this amazing part of Botswana. It is nature and dawn of man
stuff in the Makgadikgadi Pans, and lots of interesting locals and local cuisine, and a
game or two of rugby with some female rugby players from America!
Exhausted, they move further north towards Chobe, on the outskirts of the Delta.
They then head through Zambia, after eventually crossing the border, and make
their way towards Malawi. Zambia will be visited properly later on in the journey!
They need to see Lake Malawi and take in the spot that is supposedly ‘Africa’s Eden’.
Lake Maclear, a pristine collection of tiny islands on Lake Malawi is described as
“the best of everything in the world, in one, small place” by Stu. He does not want
to leave, and it takes lots of democratic games of ‘ching, chong, cha’ with Viv, to get
moving again. Other places featured are Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam and Namibia.
Going Nowhere Slowly
