Kalahari Plains Camp was our first stop on this particular trip to Africa. It was rustic, but extremely comfortable considering how isolated it is. We dined outside under the stars (great food) and you could sleep outside on the upper deck of your tent if you wanted. What a view! The first night we heard a lion roaring all night. This was just a preview of things to come. In the morning, our guide Thuto (who was the absolute best)!showed us the lion's footprints in the sand -he had walked right by our tent. How cool is that?! We found him on our game drive, a beautiful male in the prime of his life. He had found who he was calling for - a female in oestrus. We got wonderful photos. We saw lots of animals and birds we didn't see elsewhere such as black backed jackals, oryx, a close-up tawny eagle, many more, and of course, the black maned lions. We were lucky enough to come across a large male lion in Deception Valley finishing up his meal that his females had killed. We loved this introduction to Botswana with a totally different landscape and variety of wildlife than anywhere else we visited. Pauline Harmon