Day two I wake up in the
beautiful bedroom of my tree house at the “bush camp”, when we arrived after
the long drive from the lodge I was blown away, very time I try to set
expectation in Botswana they are blown away in one way or another. Our bush
camp is the real life version of Disney’s tree houses located at their Magic Kingdom
park expect we were really sleeping with wild animals right outside our window.
Rosalie and I lucked into the tree house with the watering hole right outside
our door, which made for some great relaxing on the deck with elephants and
antelope gazing right below us.
How could this get any
better? Well more free drinks and amazing food presented by the most wonderful Marx.
Marx our personal bush camp chef was five stars all around. He was so detailed
he his presentation of his meals and engaging to us that he was 100% a Motswana
I will never forget. His “ladies first” rules and invitations for “second
chance and third chance” was such a welcome change to the mad rush and no share
rule of lunch in Manyana. The only thing that could compete with Marx’s
personality was his cooking! He definitely put Nobu’s job in question. Allow
with Marx, our camp host “Crazy Spaniard” Carlos was a great treat and livened
up meal time with great stories of creating the resort and the amazing things
his wife, dog and him experience living at the bush camp reserve. I feel like I
should clarify that the resorts (Lilly lodge, tree houses, and real bush camp)
are all owned and run by Monica, Carlos’s wife, she is the first woman in
Botswana to start and run a successful tourism business and one of the only
female Motswana to do so. Showing the power and possibility that exist within
the tourism business for Botswana and the adapting gender norms (although that
might be a stretch). Rounding out the amazing team was LT, our tour guide.
Impossible to describe but it’s easy enough said that it’s the people and
ANMIALS that make the experience.
Along with this thought I
have to admit that I couldn’t help but wish I could share this adventure with
my family and friends, I could just image how much my mother would love taking
in all the natural sights and how Macy and Kassey would have me laughing and
enjoying the food and the simple facts just so much more. I wont deny that I am
traveling with a great group of guys but they agree that they too wish they
could have their loved ones to share this with.
Camp Pictures
Watering hole outside my treehouse
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