good morning we're just leaving villa borghese in uppington we spent one night here
it's just too long a drive from home to the kgalagadi we're leaving uppington now
just after 7 a.m and we're heading to the kgalagadi this is where we stayed very nice
two petrol stations
and that's the end of askham
these offices are also a border control because it is a trans frontier park so part of it is in
botswana you don't need to go through customs unless you are going to exit in botswana
got to deflate tyres to 1.6 bar just helps with the roads it helps in the sand gives you more grip
yeah that's fine now we're heading out Birgit's on gate duty
we're heading to mata mata rest camp which is our spot for tonight any little bit of shade
number one mata mata is definitely one of my favorite rest camps in the kgalagadi
it's not a large camp so it's i guess what you could call a little bit more intimate than
the large ones lovely pool really nice people and very very chilled and laid back atmosphere it's
popular so you need to book well in advance we were lucky and picked up a cancellation
we only spent one night here because we could only get one night it's really nice it's a really nice
camp it's quite small the vibe in the evening especially was really nice you know just people
enjoying themselves i would recommend it and i will definitely be back jackal there's another one
back down to the river the dry river
which only flows once a century or so game tends to follow the river because that's
where the water holes are traffic like this only means one thing which is lion lion in the road
really nice picnic site bathroom facilities and this is a museum let's see if it 's open along this
auob river inside of the museum there must have been tough people to survive out here
staying here for one night the reason only one night is because
accommodation is so scarce in this park unless you book a year or more
ahead of time you gotta take what you can get shop over there and number seven is somewhere over here
yeah there's our home for tonight good morning from twee rivieren rest camp we were only here
for one night we're heading back north again towards the kalahari tented camp which is
that way far that way accommodation is at a premium here so we've had to book where
we could place tonight here another night there another night there and that's what happens when
you don't book ahead the last couple of days we went up that way towards mata mata today we're
going this way which is the nossob river there's two rivers in the kgalagadi that's where twee rivieren
comes from kind of the meeting point of the two river the nossob which is on the east
and the auob river which goes towards mata mata is on the west of botswana that side south africa
this side this is actually the international border with botswana there we go towards nossob
stopped for coffee and a picnic melk vlei picnic site there's a lot of water around in the road
as well we stayed last night at twee rivieren and tonight we are staying at kalahari tented camp
but what we've done we've gone up this way on the nossob river and right now we are at melk vlei
we could go all the way up this way and then across there there's dune roads there's not
much going on so what we're going to do we're going to go back to here killie krankie
and we're going to cut across the dunes there and then go up along the auob river
traveling on the dune road is the road between
the nossob river and the auob river we're heading west now across the dunes
it's been good rain so there's a lot of grass i think it's not usually this green
here we are at kalahari tented camp it's a unfenced camp so this gate gets closed
and that's your barrier to the outside and then this here is your view
here's the main part of the tent
pretty dark because it's all solar power the lights are solar cooking is on gas
was that for a braai fire with a view
this lioness had at least one cub hidden in the bush about 150 metres from our tent she was very
stressed when a male came prowling around males are known to kill cubs belonging to other males
so she did manage to remove it to safety let's hope she moved the others as well i'm going to end
this video right here before it gets too long and next episode we're going to go to a upmarket lodge
in the kgalagadi close to the namibian border then back east to nossob rest camp and an amazing
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