We spent our last two days in Zambia frustratingly trying to book airline tickets on-line, for a whole day we had no luck as bloody Barclays kept cancelling Neil's card as he was making a transaction abroad, even though they were told we would be out here before we left!! After lots of annoying phone calls to Barcalys we eventually managed to book our bargain flights home on the 30^th of July. We fly from Cape Town to Doha then to Heathrow, it seems quite apt that we are flying back the same sort of way that we came down.

 So the task of buying tickets....done, now it was time to move on to Botswana.

Again the border was hassle free, we had to pay insurance on this border as our Comesa Yellow Card doesn't cover Botswana, that was 50 Pula, (1 pound = 11.4 Pula) and an additional road tax of 50 Pula, so nothing too hefty! We also exchanged a UNICEF badge for a 50 Billion Zimbabwe note! We're billionaires! To cross into Botswana we had to take a boat over the river, no hassle and only took a couple of minutes.

We decided to stay near the border in a town called Kasane for the night, we had lovely hot showers and a quiet early night. We missed the Lions test today and heard it was a brilliant match, although there was a lot of dirty play! I hope the lovely Mike Phillips' face wasn't harmed in all of this madness! That would be unforgivable!

We had a long drive ahead of us today to Maun, we had 2 route options, all on tarred road, a bit of a longer way around or cutting through the Chobe National Park, shorter route but would probably take longer as the roads are all sand. We decided to go through the park as it would be more of an exciting drive!....We weren't wrong there! There was a lot of sand driving, most of it pretty deep! But Yolandy did really well, (better than us in some parts)! We we're making pretty good time and arrived at the final check point before leaving the park. There was another overland vehicle there and the guys were being given painstakingly detailed directions out of the park by the warden, we suggested maybe we should follow them out rather than make the warden repeat everything again, he had also drawn them a map so we should be fine, right?!

Long story short, the map meant nothing! We got lost...really lost, through lots of deep puddles and driving through lots of shrubs and trees, again, may I add, Yolandy excelled!

 We eventually found the 'bridge' we we're looking for, a few logs lined up on the water with a huge steep incline on the other side! We made it to the main road anyway with 30 mins of daylight left! So we decided to drive the further 100km to Maun. It was dark now and we were both tired but nearly driving straight into a herd of elephants in the middle of the road sure did wake us up! Christ, I've never been so scared in my life! Although the elephants didn't look too calm either! Yet we live to tell the tale and within 20 minutes later we we're at Crocodile Camp, just outside Maun, 35 Pula each per night. It's a really nice place right on the river. We watched the USA vs Brazil Confederations Cup Final, then off to bed. It's getting so cold at night here now, so we have to wrap up warm at night! We're opting for full skiing gear at the moment! Emerging from the tent in the morning heat can attract quite a few odd looks!

 We spent the next day chilling at camp, cleaning, Neilo checking Yolandy over after the bumpy sand driving. Of course she was fine!

 We left for Sopopa the following day, found Sopopa Swamp Stop campsite, a camp run by local villagers, a nice little spot about 300km from Maun, we spent the afternoon making a start on cataloguing our videos! God there are so many! Good luck to anyone who gets dragged into watching those when we get back! The had the classic noodles for tea! We're so sick of noodles!