Big Botswana Baecation, Part 1: Botswana, here we come! Or do we?? (Overlanding Botswana Self Drive)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.พ. 2023
- Overlanding Travel in Botswana
In Part 1 of our Big Botswana Baecation travel vlog, we are gung-ho and excited as we head to Botswana from South Africa. We successfully wake up early (miraculous), and we arrive at the border at a great time, all as scheduled and planned, probably for the first time ever, but then ....
Do we get into Botswana on Day 1 as planned? Of course not! Things were running too smoothly.
So, before we even get across the border, plans are already changing. Off to a great start!
Let's try that again, shall we?
Eventually, we get across the border to properly start on our Botswana travel adventure.
On to Palapye to buy all our fresh groceries - fruit, vegetables, and meat - no meat and hardly any fresh produce is allowed across the border due to the Foot & Mouth restrictions as well as protocols put into place by the Botswana government to stimulate their own agricultural industry.
Do we get to Khama Rhino Sanctuary as planned? No! But maybe we still will somewhere along the way. Instead, we have to head directly to Elephant Sands, our second planned accommodation stop in Botswana.
Follow along on another epic journey!
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Great production, thankyou! We felt your pain at the border, oh my, but you handled the situation with grace (at least in the vid 😄)! Seriously though, excellent lesson learned...we have immediately separated our expired passports from the actuals!! Great stuff Travel Gigolo and SO - looking forward to the next 👌👌
My significant other handled the passport situation well too 😄, I thought I was a dead man at that point! Glad you enjoyed the video!
@@TravelGigolo Indeed - lucky guy you are 😉 think I would have been walking back to JHB!!!
Love your videos you have a lovely smile and ever time you smile I catch myself smiling with you 😊
😄 Glad to be spreading smiles!
That's why we watch till the end 🤣🤣🤣🤣 The last 10 seconds were epic. On to the next episode. Thanks #TravelGigolo
😄 Glad you're enjoying the channel!
Hehe! Passport issue part of the adventure! Love the elephants in camp...please explain the horse!
I would also like an explanation for the horses 😄 There were a few of them roaming around.
I felt your pain re. the passport. At least you were able to carry on with your holiday. I only realised I had forgotten my passport when we got to the Dover port in the UK at 1am. I was left behind at the port and then had an eventful train trip back home the next day.
Ouch! Well I guess I got off lightly 😅
Fabulous new episode!! Felt your pain, aaargh, I think we've all fallen victim to something like that. We had to turn back and go to the closest municipality (within our home town) to get our trailer licence disk that we'd forgotten in the madness before setting off. And this was the one occasion they didn't check for it, oh well. Still, not as bad as taking the wrong passport!! Loved the video-bombing horse and surprised raptor 😄. Looking forward to the next one!
I double-check my passport now. I don't think I can survive another situation like that 😄.
I enjoy your travel vlogs, you always on the positive side. Thank you for showing BW, massive dose for homesickness bug.
Thanks! I appreciate the positive feedback.
Thank you for sharing😅😅😅 oooh what a royal blunder!
I love how your significant other is featuring (and speaks) alot more on this episode😊!!
Yes, from now on I must double check my passport before every departure 😄
Another great video. Love the bus stop occupants and the camera work at the end.
Thanks 😄
Ellie charge - close call! Surprised - they should be used to the cars - people - by now.
We only had that one charge, quite unexpected too. We were definitely a bit more wary after that. A good reminder not to become complacent.
Lovely video absolutely loved it.
Thanks! Appreciate that positive feedback 👍🏾
wow! mr gigolo, I thought it was just you mainly doing stuff, seems mrs. gigolo is also a key player in this wonderful partnership! Nice folks!
Thanks, my significant other is the trip planner, director, producer, and general problem solver 😄
Excellent video. Pitty about your passport but sometimes stuff like that happens and then must just make the best from the situation and carry on.
Yes, it happens. Fortunately, the immigration lady asked my significant other 'please don't kill him' so I survived this one.
The passport problem was such a (your video editor G) move/thing hahah😅😂but either way great video and adventure definitely one for memories!
Luckily it all worked out 😄
Great video. Thanks. Such a shame about the passport but seems you got it sorted without too much trouble.
Fortunately, we managed to get the passport without having to drive all the way back. The driving fatigue would have been worse than the time lost.
Yoh! Yoh! Yoh! What a honest but costly mistake. Well handled though and the shaded horse made up for it at the end😂 Looking forward to the series 👌
Thankfully, we didn't have to drive all the way back 😅 I don't think my significant other would have let me live.
@@TravelGigolo I picked that up when u came out announcing your dilemma 😂 You guys make a great dream 👍 Helps when the other person can help think outa the box in a pickle situation👌 Problems quickly find solutions and you’ll know there and then that you make a great team! 🙌
Once again a great video from you and a real appetizer for our own Africa adventure! I really had much fun watching it. And yes there had been some incidences whrere I had to lough a bit but to make it clear, not about travelling with an expired passport, where I´m also used to.🤫. I´m looking forward to your next video.👋
Glad you enjoyed the episode. I now double-check my passport 😄
That was a royal screw up mkoma. Kudos to maiguru for keeping it together. I have also made a mental note, not to keep the expired and current passport together. All the same great production as always
Thanks. Maiguru handled it very well! I thought I was going to be in 🔥🔥🔥
Another gr8 video. Loved the format: it felt like we were travelling with you. We have been reminded that we must destroy our old passports. I would have lost it completely.
You def showed that elephant 😅. I see you recruited the horse to do you me filming 😂. Anyway look forward to your next video…like tonight. 🤩
I barely survived the wrath of my significant other with the passport situation 😅. Thanks for the positive feedback! Glad you enjoyed the episode.
Excellent video, just make sure you didn't take a shortcut on the winch wiring, is there a 50amp fuse as close to the battery as possible, on the live and earth wire? is the earth wire from the winch attached to the earth of the battery and not on the car earth? I made that mistake one day before Botswana trip.
Thanks for the advice. There is a fuse close to the battery (60A), but only on the positive. I haven't checked the wiring all the way. The winch is an original Toyota Denso winch and seems to have been factory fitted, judging from the way the winch wiring harness fits into the rest of the main harness to the battery i.e it doesn't look like an afterthought add-on looks original.
Maybe it's time to trace the wiring with a bit more effort. The winch only works with the ignition turned on, so there is more to the wiring than I have traced.
Aish Felt for you leaving the passport 😳🙌
😄 I thought my significant other was going to throttle me. She handled it well though.
Great video, sorry about the passport issue I had a license issue years ago but i managed to soldier on, driving dirty, but why did you buy meat and veggies in Palapye which is a village come town instead of Francistown which is a city and is nearer your destination??
Originally, we were going to Khama Rhino Sanctuary first, so we made a booking with the butchery in Palapye to have frozen meat ready for us. But plans changed due to my passport situation 😄
@Travel Gigolo well thank god you didn't have to go all the way back to JHB I would've been so frustrated, I know here in Botswana when you get a new passport you immediately surrender the old one unless one has visas in it. When can we expect part 2?
Part 2 coming soon, but first a review of Elephant Sands Camp.
Loved the video!!
A bit of an inconvenience at the start. Makes the holiday even more sweeter. 😊
Elephant Sands is one beautiful place. Been there a few times.
-when you were packing before leaving Joburg. During the time lapse, what was that you inflated? By the front left wheel.
-Where did you get the panel with pockets you have on the dash? Would love to get one for my 80.
Looking forward to your next video.
That passport situation almost got me strangled by my significant other 😅
That was an air jack that I was checking, with a really small emergency compressor to see how quickly it would inflate. We hardly ever take the air jack, but I was expecting muddy conditions. It's also useful in soft sand.
The dash cover is from Escape Gear hrre in SA, same as the seat covers.
If you were strangled we would not be watching the video 😂
I have an exhaust jack too. Never tried it using a compressor. I should try too. Have you tried it with the compressor under the weight of the 80?
Thanks! I will check out escape gear.
I have raised the entire rear axle using my compressor. I'm actually not very keen on using the exhaust has with all the particulates and volatiles in it.
@@TravelGigolo Thanks for that. I will try too. How did you adopt the air inlet to suite the compressor? Can you do a video on this? Would be very useful for others.
Currently I carry a high lift jack. But not too keen on carrying this around. Feel it is unnecessary weight.
I did a video a few weeks back debating on getting rid of my high lift.
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Cool, will check out the vid. My air jack came with fittings for exhaust or compressor as standard. It's a Takla Air Jack.
Thanks for a great video! Really appreciate your efforts. Who made the spare wheel cover for you?
Will check and reply with the contact details. They did a great job, fits snug and has held up well so far.
@@TravelGigolo Thanks, will appreciate the info. You mention that some vehicles towing trailers were turned away at Stockpoort. Does this also apply to caravans like the Bush Lapa off road caravans?
The border officials indicated that the border is not for commercial transit. The vehicles turned away had trailers laden with goods rather than holiday type trailers. It seems like a customs issue. They were sent to Groblers Brug.
Hi Travel Gigolo ...well done on your videos...all great....just watched the one of you & partner going to Botswana ( passport story ) ...when will you be doing part 2 ?
Part 2 is coming soon. Takes a while to review all the footage, edit, assemble, etc. We do an episode every 2 weeks. Note though that we also put in the campsite review episodes as we go.
What is your daily drive when you are not overlanding?
Currently, I don't have one, as I don't really need one and can borrow from my significant other when necessary.