Rain & Raindrops | CHOBE NATIONAL PARK, Botswana

CHOBE NATIONAL PARK, Botswana

This place was Great

Nile Crocrodile a little too close for comfort

The names of the currency in Botswana are the local dialect words for rain (dollar) and raindrops (cents). This poetic way of expressing the costs of things iluminates the importance of both rain and money for survival in this poor country.

If you�ve been reading many of these blog entries, you know what is coming next: we saw a lot of wildlife, particularly big game such as elephants and hippos, as well as crocodiles and birds. A late-afternoon cruise on the Zambezi River gave us a chance to see a great number and diversity of birds which was most fascinating for me (and boring for many others!). We saw cranes, egrets, storks, herons, as well as crocodiles and water monitors (lizards).