There is little doubt that Maun is growing quickly. Commercial and home construction continue to accelerate. Some times it is easy to miss individual failures.

The picture above represents broken dreams. Day by day the termites prosper and often donkeys rest inside - seeking shelter from the sun. The doors are gone and the windows are broken - the initial dream has been overtaken by termite castles.

From 'The Travel Net' website, "David Young blogs from a country that is unique in the African tourism industry - Botswana. See his blog Afro Trek Safari.

The proportion of people that visit Botswana is still quite small and so the country remains relatively untouched - vast tracks of uninhabited land are given over to road less savanna and viewing the wildlife is by way of four wheel drive. Here the Kalahari meets the Okavango Delta and beneath an indigo-blue African sky the wildlife roams freely within and without the game preserve boundaries. One third of the country is national parkland.

In the following post David visits Moremi Game Reserve, one of the two well known refuges of the Okavango delta the other being Chobe National Park. David’s story unfolds much as it would on any four wheel safari..."

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