Visiting Pandamatenga

On Saturday Jan. 31, we drove to Pandamatenga. A few miles out of Kasane on the main paved highway we were forced to stop because of giraffes on the road. This is always exciting to me, running into exotic animals leisurely crossing our route. These were two large adults and while we were stopped for them we noticed two more adults, a teenager and two new babies in the bushes beside the road. Of course the camera was in the trunk. A short while before the giraffes we had passed elephants on both sides of the highway. At Panda we stayed at Touch of Africa, the lodge of our neighbors Franz and Mandy. We spent part of the afternoon walking to our building site and pointing out the giraffe and zebra tracks. Toff had marked out the site and we measured and discussed and came up with the correct size for the building pad and the location of main supports for the thatched roof. All of the above photos were taken on or near the property. The top one is the border road between Botswana on the right and Zimbabwe on the left. It is nearly 100 kilometers to any road or settlement on the Zimbabwe side. The second photo is a millipede, one of many on the road. The third photo is a road along the farm fence that leads to the boundry road. The left is open animal corridor and the right is farm land. The last two photos are of our building site, the last from the back of where the house will be showing the view to where we will have a water hole and the first looking away from the back of the house.