Where the Earth meets the sky.

After a lot of planning, dreaming, hard work and un-inspiring highways and border posts, we have finally arrived exactly where we wanted to be. We are in a place of utterly vast, empty beauty where ones eye travels all the way to where the land and sky meet.  We are in the Nata Bird Sanctuary in central Botswana. There is no one else here, just us and a sea of yellow grass, with an ancient salt pan lying beyond it, extending until it touches the sky. I explained the word "horizon" to our two boys, pointing to the far distant shimmering line where salt pan and blue sky meet each other. I couldn't have found  a more perfect example.

After a full moon night we woke to the same view but this time it was lit up by the gold of an African sunrise, the moon still hanging heavily above us. We loaded up our Landrover and hit the road again, this time heading due North to Kasane and Chobe National Park, one of Africa's remaining Edens.