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Monday 11 May 2015

From Twee Rivieren to Two Rivers and Polentswa in Botswana

Many people are unaware of the existence of a certain camp in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.  It is near the main entrance at Twee Rivieren and quite invisible from that side where most of the traffic and human activities are found.It is on the Botswana side and called Two Rivers Camp.  It has only five campsites and has an ablution block that is most of the time without water and the gas heaters are being used as nests by birds, but one can go and have a shower at Twee Rivieren about two kilometers away and the very nice A-frame huts are very welcome hiding places against the Kalahari sun.Another very good thing about this camp is that it is very seldom full and most of the time it is completely empty so you can be the only people there.  We stayed there for a few weeks and enjoyed the solitary feel of the place very much.  We asked the people on the Botswana side at the entrance gate to please pump some water for us, which they promptly did and we enjoyed the lukewarm showers during the very hot hours of the day.Another plus for some people will be the fact that it is fenced out of the park, it is the only camp on the Botswana side that you can expect lions NOT to visit the camp!  All the other camps in the Botswana side like Rooiputs, Polentswa and the camps in the Mabuasehube area has lions visiting the camps from time to time.

We went to sleep at Polentswa for two nights.  A real treat with a beautiful camp next to the Polentswa Pan and a great waterhole nearby.  We even had lions visiting our camp, probably lured by the smell of water.












Polentswa#2 seen from Polentswa#1



Lions drank the birds' water at Polentswa


Back at Two Rivers at sunrise
















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