点评:After a few long days of slow game viewing driving in the Khwai/Moremi areas we decided on some quiet days here, we’ll pass on heading to the salt pans. We didn't expect particularly good game viewing along the Boteti river but we'd just do that. We entered one afternoon around 2pm, after dropping some tables and chairs at our SKL Khumaga campsite we set off along the river bank. And what an afternoon. A long drought for Botswana left the Boteti dry apart from a few remaining waterholes along the river. Everything was either heading to or from water. Thousands of zebra, as many wildebeest, impala, kudu and giraffe. And elephants. Down on the river bed more than 200 spread over a 15km drive. And when on the banks curving in the sand track there seemed an elephant behind every bush either coming or going to the river.
The following morning, same animals but only 10% of the volume of the previous afternoon and few ele-phant. But again by 2.30 pm literally a few thousand animals covering the dry riverbed, unbelievable.
翻译:在 Khwai/Moremi 地区缓慢地驾车观赏了几天野生动物之后,我们决定在这里度过一些安静的日子,而不是前往盐田。我们原本并不指望在 Boteti 河边观赏野生动物会特别好,但我们还是去了。一天下午 2 点左右,我们在 SKL Khumaga 营地放下一些桌椅后,沿着河岸出发。真是一个美好的下午。博茨瓦纳的长期干旱使 Boteti 干涸,除了沿河仅存的几个水坑。所有的动物要么流向水边,要么来自水边。成千上万的斑马,同样多的角马、黑斑羚、捻角羚和长颈鹿。还有大象。在河床上,15 公里的车程内分布着 200 多头大象。当在沙路弯曲的河岸上时,似乎每一丛灌木后面都有一头大象,要么来河边,要么去河边。
第二天早上,动物还是一样,但数量只有前一天下午的 10%,大象也很少。但到下午 2 点 30 分,干涸的河床上又出现了数千只动物,真是令人难以置信。