We left Camp Moremi, near the popular Xakanaka Lagoon in the Moremi Game Reserve and our guide, Wise Tepo, asked everyone in the game drive vehicle, “What are you interested to see?” There was a youthful couple from New York who told us that they have taken a year’s long vacation from the Concrete Jungle and are on a Round The World (RTW) honeymoon. They wanted to see mainly cats.
I seconded that with a loud, “Cats please, thank you!”. Another couple, Scottish and elderly, armed with binoculars wanted to see birds and cats. I voted for that as well. Birds are my new found interest. “Ever since I started travelling through the Okavango Delta on a mokoro with researchers with doctorates on birds, I have developed a keen interest in them. “I have bought books about birds and together with a kind gift of binoculars that I received from a good friend, I am appreciating birds more than ever. Our guide, Tepo told us that he loved birds too. Fellow journalist, Bright Kholi said he was “fine with everything”. The road started bumpy; Botswana guides call it the ‘African massage’. Before long, we saw two yellow-billed hornbills. Tepo stopped and switched off the engine for us to enjoy the sound and sight. The Scots exchanged the binoculars and the woman said, “Two Zazus”.
