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Safari is the most special form of travel we encountered.  It brings you to the edge:  remote location, special field equipment, expert guidance, real personal risk, high daily cost.  In return you are guaranteed a once-in-a-lifetime experience.  You escape from civilization and travel back to see nature the way it was centuries ago, before mankind […]

One of the coolest parts of safari is learning how to track animals.  Our first few safaris we just sat back and watched the guide search, sometimes for hours.  After a while though, we realized we were missing a lot of action and we started asking tons of questions.  For those who like puzzles, tracking […]

The Okavango Delta is a unique place. It floods in the dry season and dries out in the wet season. What’s up with that? We arrived in the dry season and our car had to SWIM most of the time. Anyway, I recently got a birding book and have been attempting to cross off as […]

The Okavango Delta literally overflows with life.  The flooded plains and surrounding forests are home to an incredible number of animals we usually only associate with National Geographic specials.  Among the twenty-three distinct mammal and countless bird species we saw, we were awed by the big guys:  the African elephants –who are much larger than […]

Giraffes are one of the main animals in both the Kalahari and the Okavango delta (the camp we’re in). Normally Mom’s animal is the giraffe and mine the elephant but I wanted to write about something else so my mom generously agreed to let me borrow her animal. When we first saw a giraffe we […]

Piggy was visiting some cousins on safari in Botswana.  They dug up roots with their noses, raced with zebras, and found seeds in the elephant droppings.  But she was worried when she saw this predator’s track: Where is she in Botswana?  And for extra credit, what predator made the track? Send an email to me at katherine@365saturdays.org and […]

When you are a Bushman, you have to know how to live off the land.  We took a walk with some Bushmen to learn about the wild life of the Kalahari Desert. We learned how to hunt, and to recognize some useful plants and their properties, along with some other valuable survival skills. My mom […]

This was my brother’s catch phrase. So much in fact, that he was eventually banned from saying the words. But he really was justified. In the Kalahari Desert there were tons of animals to see. And before we came Mom gave me a book where I could cross off all the animals we saw. The […]