DAY #3

I'm getting a little discouraged but maybe its because we've just been traveling so much and I'm still not use to the time change. Our bus ride from Gaborone to Malahapye was about 1hr 45minutes. The thirteen of us were cramed in an extended mini van (called a kombi) and the road we were on just went straight (perfectly straight!) the entire drive. The scenery was the same throughout the drive with goats, cows and donkey grazing here and there. Some trying to cross the road as our kombi sped quickly by. With a long blaring honking of the horn they quickly decided against crossing the road at the moment and backed off.

We finally got to our hotel after our driver got lost a few times and asked a bunch of people for directions. The hotel is cute - tile floors, clean, mosquito nets over the beds. :)


The Oasis Lodge - very cute!


Mosquito Nets

Our driver left us when he wasn't suppose to and we ended up taking a taxi to the "best restaurant" in the village. That restaurant was called "Southern Fried Chicken - Lip Licking Good".



Afterwards we walked a few blocks down to the nearest supermarket (SPAR) where they had a TV propped up by the ceiling showing WWE wrestling. :) I guess they are big fans, both the workers and the customers were thoroughly engrossed in it. Our group thought this was hilarious! The grocery store was impressive, much like our grocery stores except much, much smaller. The baked bread is to die for!

In the middle of the village the goats and donkeys wander freely eating grass and whatever else they can find.




You have to look closely to find the goat in this picture

After shopping half of us decided to walk back to the hotel instead of taking the taxi. Groups of kids would see us and come running over and waving. One group walked with us part of the way. We took pictures with them - so cute!



Dinner was cooked by our own personal chef in the hotel's "diner" - which was a room thatlooked like a VFW kind-of-place. The food was good - fried chicken, curry chicken, rice, coleslaw and salad, which was basicaly what I had for lunch.

It seems like all the planning Duraid did was ignored. It seems that there will nto be too much excitement during our stay in Malahapye. I hope I'm wrong.