Botswana - 2003


	Botswana (2003)

Photos per year (number): 2000 (4) 2003 (183)


Vultures flying away from a donkey carcass	Vulture and pied crows waiting to return to a donkey carcass	Cattle along the road through Botswana	Orange trumpet vines at one of our halts	The first fill of our car, in Botswana	Locals at one of our halts	Typical transport, as seen driving past	End of the afternoon on a road in Botswana	Curious kids	Night is falling over our first day

A local meal is served for us on our first evening in Botswana	Meyer's parrot	Leroo La Tau Lodge	Leroo La Tau camp has very tame zebras indeed	Antelope tracks in the river bed	The dry river bed near Leroo La Tau is the setting of a stunning start to our wildlife experience	Bushbuck mother and baby	Shy steenbok eating	Shy steenbok interrupting its lunch	Pale-chanting goshawk

Termites at work	Bird of prey	Resting springbok	Lionness amongst her potential preys	Ostriches look weary as they have spotted the lionesses	Desolate landscape of the waterhole where the herbivores must drink	The springboks wait for a possibility to drink	Lionness stalking the springbok	The lioness gives up hunting for a while and rejoin her three cubs	Male springboks fighting each other

A lioness aborts a run at springboks	The cubs join in on the feed	Finding our way in Nxai Pan	Tracks in the Nxai Pan park	Giant baobab	Lioness drinking after her springbok meal	The jackals come in to try to steal some part of the springbok kill	Elephant skeleton in Nxai Pan	Woman tending to her hut	People outside a local shop

Kid playing along the road	Friendly and relaxed welcome to the camp	Lionness at night	Lion cub at night	Springhare at night	Brown snake eagle	Vultures in the palm trees of the river bed	Perched eagle	Ostriches	Vultures feeding on a dead wildebeest

Black-backed jackals	The gory image of death	A feeding orgy	Vultures awaiting their turn	A vulture impresses the others	Warthogs enjoying a meal	Kudus weary of our presence	Hippo going to cool in one of the rare pools left in the river bed	Hippos on the shore of a small pool	Carcass of a wildebeest

Remains of a wildebeest	Zebra carcass	Beautiful palm trees in the river bed	Wildebeests running off	The river bed marks the separation between wildlife and cattle	Stripes of life and death	A dog enjoys a free meal of zebra	Vultures abound in the river bed	Sandgrouse fill up with water for their young	Lilac breasted roller

Crocodile in a shrinking pond	African fish eagle	Trying to get out of the sand	Brown snake eagle	Grey lourie	Okavango mix of wet and dry	Great herds of herbivores abound in the delta	Our plane has landed in the Okavongo Delta	The view from our camp in the Okavongo Delta	Out in the delta on the mokoros

Male reedbuck	African jacana	Pel's fishing owl	Male elephants drinking	Admiring the elephants	White-face ducks	Having lunch while an elephant has his on the other bank	Beautiful vines in a tree	Chiefs Island landscape	Spotted hyena

Baboon hugging a tree	African silhouette	Baobab trunk	Zebras in the late afternoon	Male chacma baboon	Nice atmosphere of the walks	Leopard track	Sunset over the waters of the Okavongo	Tiny gecko I caught	View from our tent

African coucal	Pied kingfisher hovering	Palm trees and an elephant	Spotted hyena in the high grass	Red lechwe	Guineafowl feather	Our resting place for lunch	Elephant and hippos	View from the mokoro	Bateleur eagle

Reedbuck	Lion track	Little bee-eaters	Little bee-eaters	Small frog on a papyrus	Lion eating a buffalo	Sunset in front of our camp	Sunrise on the Okavongo	Buffalo carcass	Inspecting the buffalo carcass

Our guide fooling around on the buffalo carcass	Marabout storks and little white egrets	Red lechwe	Our tent in the Okavongo Delta	Dead leaves beneath a jackal-berry tree	Nicola coming to admire our guide's house under construction	Walls of a house	Thatch beauty	Kids in the village of our guides	Shop in the village

Thatch for a roof	The loveliest hut of the village	The football goalpost	A huge male warthog near the village	A huge male warthog near the village	Cute kid in a mokoro	Kids playing in the mokoro boats	Barbet	Weaver	View of the Okavongo Delta

Aerial view of Maun	Ground hornbill eating	Crocodile on the bank near where we crossed	Couple of ground hornbills	Martial eagle eating a snake	Lilac breasted roller	Lilac breasted roller flying off	Our camp fire	Marching army of ants, back from a termite nest plunder	Chobe Park's western border

Boys in the shade	Sable antelope	Sable antelope running off	Group of baboons crossing from Namibia	Baboon plundering a litter bin	Male waterbucks	Eagle	Marabout stork	Pelicans in flight	Big group of elephants on the Chobe riverfront

Hammerkop	Elephants crossing the river	Guineafowl	Female impala	Male impala grazing wearily	Impalas darting off	Impalas dashing away	Typical view of the Chobe riverfront	Hippopotamus eating	Rock python

African spoonbills	Juvenile hooded vulture	Lilac breasted roller	Young oribi	Lilac breasted roller	Male giraffe	Monitor lizard	Guineafowl	African buffalo	African buffalo

Sable antelopes	The ferry between Botswana and Zambia	Arriving in Zambia on the last ferry