The story so far ....

Look how smart we look

Saturday 30th we all gathered at Edinburgh airport ready to start our adventure. A fairly quick flight to Heathrow, not to long to hang about and then on the long haul flight to Jo'burg. Long it was, some slept OK, some slept very little, but what ever the case everyone arrived next morning very tired.

After a few hours in Jo'burg we were eventually taken to our little plane that was to fly us to Gaborone.  Everyone was delighted to arrive in Botswana at last!

After posing for our group photo we made the 3 hour journey to our first stop - Camp Itumela where we were well fed and watered and then had a good nights sleep.  Early start Monday morning to complete the 7 hour drive in our bus that even sardines would have felt squashed in.  Arrived in Maun just in time to get our tents pitched in daylight and then have our meal before retiring quite early for us.

Today is our first full day on site and has been spent mainly getting settled in and setting up base camp and clearing more of the bush.  The advance party have done a great job getting everything ready for us.  More photos and news to follow as soon as possible!