Maun Area
We spent three nights in the Maun Lodge and had one day in the Moremi Game Reserve. We hired a guide and a vehicle and were picked up at 5:30 a.m. so could enter the reserve around two hours later. We got there not long after sunrise and as we were starting to drive into the reserve the steering link broke and fell on the ground. We spent two hours waiting for a spare and the repair, but were very glad it hadn't happened at speed, or in the reserve. We missed some of the early game, but managed Tsessebe, which was new and our first hippos along with some great birds and good views of other animals we had seen before. We also saw a cheetah, which was a highlight. Theyu are very hard to see. It was too far away to photograph, but we saw it.
On the second day we were driven up into the Okavango Delta for a mokoro (traditional hollowed out canoe) ride into the swamps. We followed this by two shortish (about 1 hour) game walks on two different islands. We got close to zebra and a reedbuck but photos were poor as the heat haze distorted things quite a bit and the reedbuck wouldn't stop running! This trip was a very peaceful change to being driven along bush roads.