Kim and Richard went on an overland tour of a lifetime covering a number of African countries, but the Okavango swamps were high on their list of must see destinations and even though they weren't in the Moremi area they weren't disappointed.

This part of the trip meant camping rough in the delta with rustic ablutions so all provisions and tents were transported to the appointed area for wild camping.

Taking a speedboat across the Okavango swamps river, then a truck to the delta and finally a mokoro to the wild camp was a long journey but worthwhile in the end.

Went for a morning walk and the group saw wildebeest and giraffe from a distance and a lone elephant bull that was eating maroela fruit from a tree. This fruit has the interesting side effect of making you drunk if you eat too many and they watched as the elephant got progressively more sloshed.

There was a skeleton of an elephant that had passed away near the campsite and it was staggering in it's size.

On the second evening the group went out in the mokoros (a dugout canoe) to watch the sunset from the river and came across a group of seventeen hippo about 100 metres from the camp. The polers took them to within ten metres of the large animals which was a bit nerve wracking.