Safari Day 18 - Waste of a drink

Highlight of the day: Seeing the Kalahari Desert

Today was an extremely early start (4:30) but nothing much happened other than sitting in the truck all day. We drove from Maun to Palapye on the Botswana/South Africa border. We got to drive through the northern edge of the Kalahari Desert, which covers 70% of Botswana and takes up 500,000 square kilometres of southern Africa. But we didn't see any bushmen.

We arrived in Palapye in time to set up camp and scrub some very grubby clothes. After dinner we headed to the campground bar for a few games of pool, and a few shots of 'Long Drops.' It starts with a layer of banana liquer, topped off with a layer of Amarula (a liquer made from cream and the distilled fruit of the African Marula tree). You then pour a tiny amount of chocolate liquer in the middle. The chocolate liquer slowly sinks to the bottom in one long strand, the whole thing looking very much like a long drop toilet. Not the most appealing name for a drink, but they taste awesome.

When we'd had enough of the annoyingly loud locals, we had one last shot and headed to bed.