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The team from the Botswana National Museum with Professor Bruxelles
The team from the Botswana National Museum with Professor Bruxelles

We are fresh from a weeklong Botswana-France collaboration tour of the Pyrenees Mountains. The Pyrenees is a rich natural and cultural landscape and a 500 kilometre-long mountain range straddling the boundaries of France with Spain.

Our Botswana team of five engaged a lot with the hosts, comprising, as we did, the director who doubles as a museum exhibition designer, a guide based at the Gcwihaba Caves, a geologist, a landscape archaeologist as well as a Motswana palaeontology doctoral student.

The surprise checking of the team by the Botswana Ambassador to France and UNESCO, Mustaq Moorad gave the tour a diplomatic twik and a blessing. We could not ask for more acclaimed but kind hosts than the duo of Toulouse University Professor Laurent Bruxelles and Toulouse Museum director Francis Duranthon.

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