TR from Botswana, part 2

linne · Post by **linne** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:40 pm

liamsaunt · Post by **liamsaunt** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:53 pm

Wow, more amazing photos. More please!

pjayer · Post by **pjayer** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:10 pm

Really great pictures. Looking forward to the rest.

Just one

- Is it possible the shot of the lioness snoozing was posted out of sequence?

jayseadee · Post by **jayseadee** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:32 pm

Wow, that looks amazing!!

Can it be done without camping? I don't do camping so well - I whine, a lot

gelopee · Post by **gelopee** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:00 pm

Linne,

Absolutely fantastic. What a stunning shot of that handsome male kudu. I'm also very impressed that you were so lucky to get that treed leopard, which are, from my understanding, very difficult to locate.

I'm eagerly looking forward to the continuation of your report.

Gerie

silverheels · Post by **silverheels** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:47 pm

Wow, Linne. You've done it again! Your pictures are amazing. Thank you for sharing them with us, your VI family. Are you always so adventuresome? Keep us posted on your trip.

cat · Post by **cat** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:29 pm

What an amazing trip! Thank you for sharing!!! Your pics are beautiful!!!!

linne · Post by **linne** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:29 am

To all of you:
I’m glad that you like my TR and the pictures. It’s funny for me to “experience” the safari
one more time, but as you know it take time to post pictures, and for me it also take time to write
in English.

To Mrsb 1024 and pjayer:
It was for fun, I wrote this “my husband has left me”, want to see if people noticed it, and you did. Fine that you care for me!!

To liamsaunt and jaysedee:
You don’t need to camp while going on safari. There are a lot of other ways to do it:

The cheapest and most primitive is, when you help with the work yourselves, making food, arrange the tents etc.
The next is the way we did it. We slept in small primitive tents, but we did not participate in the work. Only had to pack our beds together, when we moved.
You can also stay in big luxury tents with floors and furniture.
Or you can stay in a lodge or a hotel.

The advantage in staying in a tent is that you can hear the sounds in the nights. But the luxury tents can be just as expensive as staying in a lodge or a hotel.

To sea-nile, pjayer and silverheels:
Yes, we have travelled a lot. We like to see the world and experience other cultures. We have been driving dog sledge in Greenland among the most beautiful icebergs – you cannot imaging how beautiful, we have visited the Iban people in Borneo in a longhouse and have danced with them in the evening, we have been to a burial in Sulawesi, also as the only tourists, where there were hundreds of people from the villages around and many pigs and cows were slaughtered. The dead person has died 8 month before the burial, but it takes a long time for the family to arrange the celebration and save money for it. We have been hiking through a rainforest on Tioman in Malaysia where it suddenly began to rain so much that we were not sure if we could come back… Oh, I could tell and tell. But I know that the Danish have better opportunities than the Americans to take a long travel, because for many years we have had 3 weeks vacation in the summer and two weeks in the winter.

But, but we always try to make the journey very cheap. We mostly stay in small and primitive huts near the beach instead of an expensive hotel, and we don’t have dinner on fancy restaurants.
And we don’t travel every year. So you don’t need to earn a lot of money to have these vacations. Although I have to say that our vacation in USVI this year wasn’t cheap. It was the most expensive vacation we ever have had.

Pjayer also asked:
Is it possible the shot of the lioness snoozing was posted out of sequence?

I’m not quiet sure that I understand you. But I have to admit that the pictures are not absolutely in sequence. We have about 500 pictures, and I only upload some of them. Sometimes I think, oh, I have to show this also and then I upload some new. And it takes time if I have to look after the date and the time, so no.

pjayer · Post by **pjayer** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:52 am

Linne - I sent you a PM with, what I hope, is an explanation of my attempt at humor. Thanks for all the good reports and pictures. It's like reading National Geographic magazine.

waterguy · Post by **waterguy** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:33 am

Cooool

linne · Post by **linne** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:32 pm

Thank you for your PM pjayer. Now I understand!

I was aware that it might be a joke, but I couldn't get it. The explanation could be that the pictures of the love couple and the sleeping lion were from different places with different lions, and I have chosen them at random. But it was an exiting experience to see the lions "making love". They did it several times. The femail went away, came back and then they started again. We were sitting

in the jeep only a few meters away, but they didn't notice us.

Linne

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TR from Botswana, part 2

TR from Botswana, part 2