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Botswana

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-- From 2018/08/13 to 2018/08/19
-- From Kang to the border of South Africa
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The GPS road tracklog
from Kang to Mabuasehube Pan
from 2018/08/20 to 2018/08/20

Kgalagadi

Wikipedia, here
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Mabuasehube Pan

Due to the distance to reach Mabuasehube with a sandy track, I left Kang around 6:00 a.m. I stopped in Hukuntsi having seen a pylon of telecommunications hoping for a WiFi connection to publish the last page of my site, bingo, good connection. I continued my way to arrive at Transfrontier Kgalagadi Park; then after the formalities entered to find Mabuasehube campsite inside the park. It was 15:30 without having a lunch pause.

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The GPS road tracklog
from Mabuasehube Pan to Monamodi Pan
from 2018/08/21 to 2018/08/21

Monamodi Pan

Tuesday, August 21 I visited at low speed three ponds, Mabuasehube, Lesholoago then Monamodi. They were without water, dry. There were no animals except a race of buffaloes on Lesholoago Pan! Consequently, I was interested with birds and small animals of the desert. I bivouacked at the Monamodi campsite #1.

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The GPS road tracklog
from Monamodi Pan to Entrance Gate
from 2018/08/22 to 2018/08/22

Entrance Gate

In spite of a morning departure on Wednesday, August 22 I observed only very few wild animals. All the ponds are dry. Moreover there is no artificial water supply point, as in Kalahari. I bivouacked with the campsite #1 of the Entrance Gate, not liking!

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the GPS de la route
from Entrance Gate to Mpayathutlwa
from 2018/08/23 to 2018/08/23

Mpayathutlwa

Thursday, August 23 I left the bivouac to be at sunrise at Mpayathutlwa Pan only artificial water hole artificial in function. Where the staff of the park had mentioned me the presence of lions, que nenni! The first newcomers were the springboks always very apprehensive, fussy neighborhood before sitting at table of the water hole raising the head with least rustles suspect. Then it was a fox, trots-finely, also looking at furtively before approaching the basin. A lot of birds fell down on the water hole driving out the other drinkers. Finally the cohabitation is established liking-with-liking. I vainly sought the campsite #1 of war-mow I bivouacked on a flat space in overhang of the pond.

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Coudoiement au point d'eau au lever du soleil, Contact at the water hole at sunrise
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The GPS road traklog
from Mpayathutlwa to Two Rivers
from 2018/08/24 to 2018/08/24

Two Rivers

In the night of Thursday August 24th I left to carry out the 340 km of corrugated track from Mpayathutlwa Pan to Nossob then to Two Rivers. The part up to Nossob is called Wilderness Trail where little before Nossob I was lucky to see two cheetahs walking. I succeed in taking some pictures of this unforeseeable occurrence as much as unhoped-for. Admittedly the pictures are unspecified, but finally. I discovered that Nossob is in South Africa and that the track of good quality to the border is also in South Africa whereas Two Rivers, spot of my bivouac, is at a few meters in Botswana almost opposite Twee Rivieren. I put 11 hours to make the way! I remained until August 30th in the basic Two Rivers Campsite to have the visa of only seven days allowing me to make the return ticket to France to obtain on my return in South Africa a 90 days hoped visa.

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Gemsbok/Bokspits, frontière Botswana/Sud Afrique

Exit Botswana, BW

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The GPS road tracklog
from Two Rivers to Gemsbok/Bospits
from 2018/08/30 to 2018/08/30

On Thursday, August 30 I definitively left Botswana after a beautiful crop of memories and pictures of wild animals at the border post of Gemsbok, Botswana, then of Bokspits, South Africa; the office immigration is in a building common to both countries at Twee Rivieren! The overview of the track carried out opposed to the expected track is here.