HAVING spent our first day at Mmokolodi Primary School focusing on conservation, Right to Sight and a soccer match with Kingsley Holgate, his son and expedition leader Ross, his partner Sheelagh and members of the Botswana Land Rover Club, we headed out to an open field just outside the city as the sun set over the African continent.
This was the beginning of the second leg of their Afrika Odyssey, an expedition to connect 22 game parks managed by the conservation NGO African Parks in partnership with the government of each country.
They would now be heading into some very treacherous territory that includes the Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Chad and Benin.
It was billed as wild camping but as we were setting up camp a Toyota Hilux, rather out of place among more than 25 Land Rovers, arrived
