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		<title>Breakfast with elephants in the Okavango delta</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bjoern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Okavango-delta in Botswana is famous all round the world as one of the pristine areas with an overflow of birds, mamals, trees and flowers &#8211; also it is one of the rare areas, where a strong river simply silt up with an enourmous delta in the middle of the Kalahari desert. As I am [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Okavango-delta in Botswana is famous all round the world as one of the pristine areas with an overflow of birds, mamals, trees and flowers &#8211; also it is one of the rare areas, where a strong river simply silt up with an enourmous delta in the middle of the Kalahari desert. As I am working together with the <a title="OKACOM" href="http://www.okacom.org/" target="_blank">Permanent Okavango River Basin Water Commission (OKACOM)</a> I got introduced to their challenges while conducting a journalist-training by <a title="IPS Africa" href="http://www.ips.org/africa" target="_blank">Inter Press Service (IPS)</a> in Maun &#8211; please find their <a title="terraviva Maun dialogue" href="http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/category/conferences/sadc-water-dialogue/" target="_blank">publication over here</a>.</p>
<p>Afterwards Susi and me got lost in the delta on a Mokoro-trip, which is a canoe made to get through the delta with its reed and water mixture. For two days we were catch into the beauty of this pristine nature where silence was only interrupted by birds, elephants and spiders &#8211; that entered our boat frequently for a ride. And as we went on two nature-walks we experienced how big and magnificient elephant-herds can be if you stand only 20m away from them, which is an astonishing and reverential feeling after all. And too top this feeling the Okavango delta awarded us with a stunning sunset in the end of the day. Find here the <a title="Video Okavango" href="http://thesingaporeadventure.blogspot.com/2010/10/wo-die-elefanten-spazieren-gehen.html" target="_blank">video-file from Sus</a>i live from the Okavango.</p>

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		<title>Sunburn in Maun</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bjoern</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Botswana]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t matter cause [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>
<p>But this doesn&#8217;t matter cause today was regional parliament day and I helped the Botswana National Youth Council introducing their idea of a national youth forum and together we convinced the 40 parliamentarians&#8230; mainly male ones, that liked talking. Gender is still not so much wellknow over here, only one female parliamentarian was around. But it was great to see, that similiar questions like in German parliaments were raised, why young people should have a saying and that some politicians were even afraid, that they could take their seats some days&#8230;</p>

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