Karla Karma: If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Swaziland: Parts 1 & 2

First stop, Tuli Block! Tried to find the lodge that offers hot air ballooning over this particular part of Botswana, central east, but no go. But Karla Karma holds and the lodge we, Jan and me, book, has the best food I've eaten in Botswana - Terrafou Lodge.

On the Limpopo River

The owner, chef, Rachel Els, was simply wonderful. She not only did all the cooking of the most delicious cuisine, she also picked us up and delivered us to bus stops to and from the lodge!

Beautiful views, my first thought upon reaching the lodge was this is a place to have a honeymoon.

If there was any disappointment, it was the limited wildlife we saw on the walks and drives. Having written this, I am reminded of what we did see - Stembok (who I startled in the bush), ostrich, marabou stork, impala, elephant, jackal, monkeys, baboons, banded roller, warthog, zebra, kingfishers, kudu, guinea fowl and hornbills.

Stork

Stembok

See the baby?

Stembok in bush

ostrich

Zebra, when you hear hoof beats here, think zebra!

guinea fowl

hornbill

Then there was the flora. We saw the tree that produces the flowers used to make bush tea, another that makes a kind of ibuprofen and of course, the tree of life, the baobab.