Botswana 2006: Kalahari/Tsau Hill/Savuti/Chobe

May 5th - 14th 2006

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Days 5/6: Tsau Hill

Deception - Tsau Hill (160km - 6 hrs)




We left the Central Kalahari at around midday, heading west towards Sunday Pan and Passarge Pan...



..the road went about as westwards as any road can go...



Without our GPS and a couple of Windhoeks we would have got lost and then eaten. Definitely.
At Passarge we headed north and after 60kms west again. Eventually we found the southbound cutline, with our destination, Tsau Hill, far in the distance. No-one, for hundreds of kilometers...
If you click on the photo below, you'll see Tsao Hill up ahead.



Tsau hill looming closer.



We climbed the hill to watch the sunset. 20 minutes of bundu-bashing upwards. Looking back towards our little campsite....
If you click on the photo below, you'll see the Landy with the roof-tent up. The cutline heads south for a few hundred kilometres. To the east (left), is the vast expanse of the Central Kalahari, the second-largest national park on earth. The track on the right (heading west), winds it's way back after about 70kms to the Ghanzi-Maun road.



View from atop; Pimple Hill to the west, and hundreds of kilometers of Kalahari to east. A very special place.



Is there a better campsite?