Björn in Southern Africa
Posted in Botswana on Oct 27th, 2008
After ten hours with the mega-fast bus from Gaborone, that was sometimes overspeeding even 140 km/hour I arrived well in Maun, in the Okavango-delta and enjoyed myselfes yesterday on a boat trip through the great waterworld with magnificient birds and rhinos. Unfortunatly a sunburn reminds me today on this adventure. But this doesn’t matter cause [...]
Posted in Botswana on Oct 22nd, 2008
After sleeping some weeks on the ground in my sleeping-bag cause the whole appartment was accupied I managed to receive an upgrade and have an own room now for me – after these days I really appreciated the luxury! Also our monkey enjoy me more and more… today they drunk my juce before I was [...]
Posted in Botswana on Oct 22nd, 2008
Last weekend we managed to go on my first longer trip outside Gaborone and drove about 1.500km the whole weekend and it was amazing. It started with a stay in the Khama Rhino Santuary in the near of Serowe, where we arrive in the late night and were amazed by the beautiness of the santuary [...]
Posted in Botswana on Oct 16th, 2008
After some days in Botswana I feel already home because of the amazing friendly people and the great weather with around thirty till fourty degrees. After we had been in an Botswana club on last Friday where we enjoyed dancing with crazy people until early in the morning I used Sunday to grap a car [...]
Posted in Botswana on Oct 8th, 2008
After visiting yesterday the fancy GTZ office in the United Nation Building and enjoying the “down-town-athmosphere” I am back to the office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation to work on my thesis. The GTZ office is directly supporting the SADC (Southern African Development Cooperation) cooperation and their headquarter, which is some hundred meters around the corner from [...]
Posted in Botswana on Oct 5th, 2008
After I heard our neighbours yesterday evening on the roof I saw them today in the purple trees infront of our house: funny, little monkeys with an amazing sound volumne and the coolness to try walking into our doors, as if they lived always there and just wanted to look, what is new in the [...]
Posted in Botswana on Oct 4th, 2008
After some long days in transit I finally arrived in Gaborone, Botswana, where I will stay the next three months until chrismas and work for my final thesis on the transboundary water-management in the SADC region. I flight over crazy Dubai and arrived in Joburg fine, where I had a great stay in the former [...]