Safari - failed border crossing into Namibia


Day six had us up before the sun again and breaking down camp and packing up. We had two long drive days and we needed to get a head start. Border crossing from Botswana to Namibia and an early camp day. Checking out at Botswana was easy enough, ran us through like an assembly line. We walked down the street to the Namibia side and it turns out the company we are traveling with failed to apply for the work visas for our driver. All us tourist could enter Namibia without any problem, but our driver, our guide and our truck could not. Our guide spent hours on the phone trying to get things sorted out and after spending all day at the border trying to entertain ourselves ended up heading back to Botwsana at 6pm when the border closed. We ended up driving an hour back into Botswana to set up camp at a campground that had space. After setting up my tent, I went right to bed and got drunk while watching Supergirl from my downloaded Netflix. For the first time since I joined the tour, I slept in the next day.

However...while wasting time at the border, I got permission from security to chase birds with my camera.  There is this little swallow tail bird that is fast and beautiful and had been teasing me all day.



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