Sunday 30 th April. We had a leisurely drive of about 100 km to Nata crossing a finger of the Ntwetwe pan and found the Bird Sanctuary with great camping sites in Mopane woodland. After setting up camp we drove towards the Sowa pan going first west and then south but soon encountered deep water. After lunch we tried a different route to the south of the camp and found the pan full of water, much like being at the coast on a calm day. We didn�t see flamingos but quite a few white pelican, white faced ducks and two kori bustards near the track. Also a lot of herons and cranes but we were too far away to identify them. We stayed at the edge of the pan near a platform to see the sunset across the water (see photo); the immensity of the pan really strikes home and this was just a small section of the network in this region. We drove back to camp in the dusk, lit the fire and enjoyed a quite evening in the woods without monkeys or baboons; there were some horses around but they�d disappeared by this time.