Tuesday 6th to Thursday 8th May
Oh what a pleasure to drive on tar roads for a bit. After Grootfontein the road to Tsumkwe is 260kms of dead straight gravel road. No towns; hardly any signs of life at all. No other cars.
Tsumkwe Conservancy is an area in the Kalahari Desert; now home to most of Namibia's San tribes. It's a very poor and isolated area. You wouldn't think it's a desert at the moment though; everything is lush and green from all the rain.
Tsumkwe Country Lodge and campsite is a little oasis run by the nicest people. We settled in for three nights. It's good to take a slow day or two in the middle of a long trip.
On Wednesday we did a trip into Khadoum NP. We had a good day; not at all what we expected.
The bush was so thick there wasn't much chance of seeing animals until we got to the open river bed plains.
We saw roan antelope, elephant, giraffe and jackal as well as lots of birds. Very good for this park.
We jaffled at a waterhole.
We saw only one other car all day. Sikereti Lodge, open in 2022, is wonderful but sadly has very few guests.
The bush was so thick there wasn't much chance of seeing animals until we got to the open river bed plains.
Even Tshumke Lodge is very quiet.
On Thursday we took a drive to one of the pans in the conservancy. I don't like cultural tourist set-ups but we did stop at a San village to ask directions and so I bought a bracelet.
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