Visiting Botswana 3

According to Tripadvisor, "Flame of Africa offers fishing trips both along the Chobe River and up the Kasai Channel towards the Zambezi River."

There was even a floating restaurant on one of the boats, although, if I'm to be frank, none of the activities offered here were to my taste. For starters, even the floating jetty wobbled under my feet as we walked across towards the boats. No surprises then that my visit lasted for just a few minutes before terra firma beckoned; but it was enough time to memorialise the moment in rapidly snapped photos.

Maphorisa, my guide, suggested that he book me on what he described as a "game ride" on one of these open-deck vehicle things, the better for viewing wildlife out in the wild. But I declined. I'd had enough excitement for one day by then.

Moreover, I find myself more inclined in my thinking towards the ancestral African's attitude towards the wildlife he shared the land with. Wildlife do not exist for the purpose of human entertainment, or human amusement. Save for studying them or hunting them for food, the animals should be respected and left alone. I have not and still do not consider myself to be just another run-of-the-mill safari tourist. So there isn't much appeal there. I already saw elephants, baboons, meerkats (for the first time in their natural habitat), and hippos, which were easily mistaken for logs floating in the river.