Leaving the Delta we headed East for 200 odd Km's before turning to the North towards our Campsite, Elephants Sands.  As the name suggests, we saw Elephants.  On the road on the way there, at the Camp and when we left.  I was obviously keeping the toilet company, no one in particular, pretty much all of them so I missed out on the fighting between 2 males over the affections of the rather (so I've been described) beautiful female right near one of the lodges.  They even prevented others from going to their tents such was the commotion that these pacyaderms were causing.  Not sure who won if you were wondering, probably the bigger one, but all the others on the tour said it was one of the best things that they witnessed.  I must also stress that this camp we were at was unfenced and any and all animals could just wander around.  Our tour leader, Elton, told us that he has seen Lions and even Leopards walking around the camp before and that the Elephants have even destroyed a few of the buildings in the past.  I said to myself "screw sleeping in the tents, I'm getting something solid to sleep in".  Pointless really because if the Elephants decided to smash the lodge, they could quite easily do it, especially if they was a randy female on the other side.

The last day in Botswana was spent in Kasane, which is on the Chobe River right at the start of the Chobe National Park.  We were booked on the twilight boat cruise, a rather slow moving vessel that we needed to supply our own beer, but perfect for getting close to the animals that are there.  We saw Hippo's bathing, Hippo's eating and Hippo's fighting (once again over a woman!!)  The Hippo's fighting looked nothing like a Jackie Chan film, it was pretty slow and mundane.  If I had to described it I would say that if you could picture 2 rather large people trying to eat 1 whopper between them at the same time, that would probaly be it.  Both people eyeing each other off, waiting for the moment to strike and when they do you would definately have a clash of foreheads, maybe even the chins, and then when they did their 2 second encounter they would need at least a 1 minute rest before starting again.  I think that would be a fair (if not rather unappropriate) image.  Oh, and we also saw Elephants, drinking, playing, bathing, mud-bathing, walking, staring and mothering (the cutely little Elephant you would ever want to see).

Victoria Falls, here we come ...