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1995
Namibia - Cairo to Capetown
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Botswana Border
There was no bus service to Botswana so I had no other choice but to hitch hike out of Victoria Falls to the Botswana border at Kasane. There was very little traffic and the little there was did not stop until this great road train picked me up. Hitch hiking is not free in this part of the world, you negotiate a fare with the driver. Its a normal way to travel where buses don't go.
Namibia Border
I had planned to get off at the Botswana border at Kasane to visit Chobe Park and its wildlife but I got along so well with the driver Fritz Tsuseb and his helper Mathias that I decided to go all the way to Grootfontein in Namibia with them. That's Fritz walking back from the Botswana - Namibia border post at Ngoma.
Caprivi Strip
Villages like this get more rare as we move west where there is less rainfall. I missed Botswana's Chobe Park but I saw some wildlife in the dry West Caprivi Game Park. It was a long dusty drive. We stopped now and then and I got to meet Hans, the driver of the other road train and his helper Nicholas.
Grootfontein
We arrived in Grootfontein at dawn. The two crews needed a rest after driving 20 hours. We slept a couple of hours, I moved north towards Atosha Park and they continued south to Windhoek with their load of sugar.
Namutoni
From Grootfontein, I got a collective taxi up to Tsumeb, a second one took me as far as the turn off to the park and finally two workers in a truck gave me a free ride to the eastern gate of the park at Namutoni.
Here I learned that there was no public transport through the park at this time of the year because there are too few tourists during the rainy season. Tourists flock here in the dry season when the animals are easy to find because they have to go to known watering holes every day.
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