Today we arrived at the Ndhovu Camp Lodge .  It is a tented camp with all the necessities of home( if you like camping in the African rainy season) . We are right on the Okavango River, overlooking the well known Caprivi Game Park. Our tent is well equipped even down to electricity and a coffee perk. The bathroom facilities are unique – attached by a 1 meter outdoor walk. Dinner was a surprise as we walked into the lodge to find a beautifully set dinner table with linen napkins and beautiful African painted dishes. We dined on oryx (a larger antelope) schnitzel last night and it was great – served along with local squash type veggies, potatoes and home baked bread.

     This morning we were fortunate to visit a local community and their school. One of the camp workers lives nearby and opens his home to visitors. Each home is fenced in with 10 feet tall reed  grass and there may be a single or extended family living inside. The land is very sandy but the home area was well swept and growing with plants to eat. The children slept in one hut, one was a kitchen, a third was for visitors and the last the main home for the couple. This family had electricity in their main home and even a tv.  Their  garden with corn, beans and squash was outside the compound and well tended. We totally enjoyed the school and all the children who were outside racing – they referred to it as their athletic days. They were singing the entire time we were there and the enthusiasm was contagious. Classrooms had the bare necessities but we saw English, Math and Geography books. Each classroom had a chalk board but very few other teaching materials. 

                         Visiting with the children at a nearby home

                   The children's home with seperate unattached rooms

                              Children at a nearby school

 Tried to get Murray to wrestle with him but at the last moment he chickened out

                   Not a happy fellow with us so close