Thursday, May 11, 2006

Saturday 29 th April. We returned to Maun and caught up on our washing and got ready for the trip across Botswana to Nata via Gweta. The rest camp is now a lodge (GPS 925 m S 20.968, E 25.25748) and in the middle of the village. We couldn't help noticing the nice looking schools in the town without broken windows !. In the afternoon we decide to go and try and find Green's Baobab tree travelling south towards the Makgadikgadi pan. The track was OK to start with but soon diverged into several tracks and I was left with the GPS to try and get to the tree. Eventually we were running out of track and in tall grass when we spotted a group of psalm trees that we had been told about at the camp and on turning in that direction, we spotted the Baobab tree surrounded by a high fence and a notice declaring it a National Monument. These trees were used by the early settlers as post boxes to relay mail out of the bush. The gate was open so I got a good picture, shown below, of the tree with the vultures on the top branches. However, we ran out of time to drive further to the pan or Chapman's Baobab.
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