Rhinos, football-heroes and luxury overnight-stays
Oct 22nd, 2008 by bjoern
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 next morning while waking up cause it had an enourmous size that you could get easily lost and we saw several white Rhinos (even if they were not white but greyish dirty) and had a perfect game drive. Afterwards we went to Selekwi-Phikwe to join the Nico United team, who were 4th in the Botswana national league last year, to get a T-shirt of them cause one of my room-mates calls Nico… that was the best decision ever cause after one hour of talking we knew the whole story of the trainer, the manager the team and transfer-problems and stood on the field while the game was starting. You cannot get closer and we enjoyed very much and are fans now… Nico of course won 3:2 the game against Francistown.
But the town Selekwi-Phikwe was not so amazing place with all their mines of NIkkel and CObalt and so we went on to the Tuli block on the boarder to Zimbabwe and South Africa and had so much luck, that we took one hitchhiking lady with us, who was working in the only-available lodge over there and we even had more luck, that we managed the street up there in the night with all their holes, tired giraffs and aroaring animals with our VW Jetta, while was not a 4WD… But the stay was amazing after we got reduction of the price and stayed in the wild, surrounded by animals, running elephants and an amzing sounds the whole night. We took the first our of the day seeing the whole show and afterwards went back with the good-old-Jetta the whole way on gravel road and afterwards the car got an honourary 4WD-sign.
