Maun and Makgadikgadi.

August 25-30 Crystal, Kelly, Shawna (J-man from Lobatse), and I went to Maun to visit career missionaries Jeff and Staci Powers. After getting a glimpse into their ministry in Maun, we all went camping in the Makgadikgadi Pans. Jeff is a big hunter and they own a game viewing vehicle. We rode all over the Pans in search of a lion we heard roaring the first night. Unfortunately we never found the lion, but we did a lot of evidence that he was around:

I have never seen so many zebra in my life! Because it is the dry season all the animal gather at the water hole to drink. Here zebra fight to get water from this small puddle.

Here, I enjoy a piece of zebra jerky as we look at all the zebra.

One of the coolest things we saw was this zebra stampede. All of a sudden over a thousand zebra come running up this hill and right in front of our vehicle. It was like a large zebra traffic jam.

In addition to zebra we saw hippo, elephant, kudu, impala, wildebeest, jackal, warthog, crocodile, a bush buck (a very private animal, very rare to see), a black mamba (the first snake I’ve seen in Botswana!), giraffe, vulture, and tons of other birds.