My husband, two-year old son and I are moving to Botswana the end of this month. We are going on an adventure!!! We’re going to work and live at the beautiful Nxamaseri Island Lodge as from 01 Feb 09. We are really looking forward to it and of course we’re also a little bit scared, but we trust everything will go well.
We are going to leave Cape Town on Monday 19 Jan 09 and then overnight at Elephant Leisure Resort – about a 2-hour drive from Cape Town. We spent our honeymoon at this place 3 years ago so we are very keen to go back (and have Juan with us). We will probably just chill in the Jacuzzi on the stoep of the chalet – overlooking the Cedarberg mountains. Lovely!!!!
Tuesday 20 Jan 09 will be a longer stretch when we drive all the way to the Orange River. So we will leave SA on 20 Jan and enter Namibia at Vioolsdrift. Back in the days Dawie worked as a river guide on the Orange River for a River Rafting Company, Felix Unite. We are planning on pitching our tent on the banks of the Orange River this night.
I’m really looking forward to our adventure on Wednesday 21 Jan 09. I booked a guided sunset drive in Aus where we will go out to look for the Wild Horses in Namibia. We’ll be camping at Klein Aus Vista this night.
On Thursday 22 Jan 09 we’re off to Sesriem where we will be camping for 1 night. We will definitely try to visit the dunes at Sossusvlei.
We will spend the weekend (Friday & Saturday nights) at a Hot Spring – just north of Windhoek – camping at Gross Barmen Hot Springs. We hope to get some relaxing time here.
On Sunday we will drive all the way to Grootfontein where we will be staying at Ghaub Guest Farm. Apparently our closest church is in Grootfontein so we will try to get to church on Sun 25 Jan 09. One of our friends in Cape Town’s father is the Dominee in Grootfontein so we hope to meet him. Don’t think we’ll be able to drive 300 kms every Sunday, but at least we will belong somewhere. Will try to download Ds Reinder and Henning’s sermons every week.
For our last night of our trip, I’ve booked us in a lovely River Cabin at Popa Falls (right on the border of Namibia). Bed and breakfast – lekker!!!
On Tuesday 27 Jan 09 we enter Botswana in the north at the Caprivi. From here it’s only a few minutes’ drive to Shakawe – our closest shop and clinic (rural). From Shakawe it’s another 30-minute drive to Nxamaseri Island Lodge.
The LODGES IN AFRICA offices will be closed from Saturday 17 Jan – Sunday 01 Feb 09.
LODGES IN AFRICA is also re-locating from South Africa to Botswana.
New contact details (ph/fax) in Botswana will be available early February 09.
Email details remain the same: anza@lodgesinafrica.com / travel@lodgesinafrica.com
Website details remain the same: www.lodgesinafrica.com
Our new Lodges in Africa representative - Zanie Erasmus – will remain in our South Africa office in Durbanville.
South Africa Cell Phone: +27 (0)82 079 0449
South Africa Contact Person: Zanie Erasmus – personal assistant to Anza Snyman
South Africa Address: Unit 5, Rust & Vrede Office Park, 21 Church Street, Durbanville, 7550
Online fax number: +27 (0)86 615 9887
We will continue business as usual in February – working from Nxamaseri Island Lodge in the Okavango Delta.
Visit my Blog regularly for updates about our Namibia trip, our new lives in Botswana and the Okavango Delta.
