Chitabe to Vumbura, Okavango delta, Botswana 24 - 25 Oct 07

Little Vumbura, an island resort

Judging by the dinner and breakfast, the food and wine were a notch superior to that of Sandibe. On the other hand, Sandibe was more environment friendly, and we missed the baboons at Little Vumbura, although it was good to lie on poo-free cushions by the pool. As for the guides, Tshabo at Sandibe had a better eye for the wildlife and was more knowledgeable than M.D. (We never did discover what the initials stood for. He just said it wasn’t Medical Doctor).
To sum it up, we were glad to have stayed at two different lodges so as to have a change of scenery, and we were also glad we’d chosen to stay 2 nights at Sandibe and just the one at Little Vumbura.
25 October. We asked M.D. to take us on our morning game drive in the direction of the airstrip as we had three flights to do on our way to Namibia that day. We saw several tsessebe, zebras, giraffes, wildebeest, and a male baboon in a tree surrounded by his harem (one of whom we saw escaping from his amorous advances).
 

Thanks to Brigitte of Cross Country Air Safaris for her help in organizing our Okavango bookings and for bush flying advice.