I am beside myself with excitement at the moment. For the last two weeks, I have been full time planning a 4x4 camping trip to Khutse Game Reserve in Botswana. Khutse Game Reserve just to the south of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (check out the map courtesy of botswanatourism.us. Khutse is the little bit sticking out the bottom of the big green section in the centre of Botswana).
The amount of work that goes into planning a trip to the middle of nowhere is mind-numbing. I have been doing cool things like going to 7 hardware stores in one day to find a two meter long piece of clear plastic tubing for the water tank (small but very necessary) only to discover that it is no longer manufactured in that size. But all the planning is worth it.
The itinerary is as follows:
Night 1: Camping in Mokolodi Nature Reserve which is just outside Gaborone
Night 2-6: Khutse Game Reserve. We will be camping at two spots. One is on a pan in the south of the reserve. The other is near a pan in the north. When I say “spot” I really do mean it. It’s not a camp “site” by any means. There will be nothing there! The only way to tell you are at the right place is by using GPS coordinates or finding something that looks like a clearing in the savannah or an old rusty sign. No toilet and no shower. We’ll have a spade and a canvas sack with some holes in strung to a tree instead.
Night 7: Chalet at Mokolodi (because by then I think we are all going to be dirty and fed up with camping).
Departure date: Wednesday 3rd August
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