thanks for posting.

Oh I wish I was there. It seems that Botswana varies so much from season to season.

But sounds as if was a great trip.

amy

Thanks a lot, Napamatt, CW and Amy.

Hari

Just read through your trip report and really sounds great. One thing made me perk up. You mentioned a pack of dogs at Kwara, 6 males and a female. I wish I can compare some pics as I also saw a pack of the same make up at Kwai, which is not far fetched but, I assumed that its a pack from the south, called Mankwe pack. Would to compare pics just to confirm.

A

Hi Alwyn -

I have better video than photos of that pack of 7. I shall put it up on Youtube in the next few days, and email the link to you. Would love to know if they are the same - at Kwara they appeared to not really know their way around.

Btw, Steve saw another pack of 5 with one puppy with a radio-collar. They must be from the Moremi somewhere? We didn't see this pack, however.

Will email pics to you of the Puppies from Lebala.

Chat soon.

Cheers
Hari

One of the dogs were supposedly with the radio-collar. Not the puppy ...... as my bad typing made it appear like!

Thanks Hari, I was about to query putting a radio collar on a fast growing puppy! Glad of the clarification. :D

Kwando continues to come through time and again!

Thanks for this excellent report. I missed it the first time around as I was in Hawaii (my son's wedding). Even with 50 subjects now, it had dissappeared.

I envy you Hari, with your frequent visits to Kwando safari camps.

Hari, I had missed this report since I've been editing photos non-stop since my return from Botswana in early October. What a wonderful report! Wild dogs and cheetah everywhere. Sounds like heaven to me!

You're right about the weather. It rained hard on us (storms) at the end of September and was gloomy and cool (after being scorchingly hot prior to that). Your report makes me want to try out the Kwando camps next time.

Thanks again for a great read!!!

Debbie

Thanks a lot - Lynn, Safarimamma and Debbie.

Debbie - Thanks. This was the same wild dog pack with puppies I mentioned seeing in your trip report thread.

http://www.pbase.com/haris_7/kwando_...a_october_2009

Apologize for the delay - I still have more flash cards to edit and look over. Shall update the gallery and post again, when I complete it. Here are some pics, of the ones I've worked on to date.

Cheers,
Hari

Close up of a caracal on page 4 everybody! That is unless Hari adds more and changes the order. The hyena in the sunset looks the final scene of a Disney Movie. Predators everywhere.

Caracal is indeed very nice.
And lots of very nice shots, every one.
Any particular reason you used the D200 on occasion? Hmm, using a 80-400mm zoom and moving it around between D200 and D300?

regards - tom

Tom, Thank You - No both cameras have their own lens. Why the D200? no particular reason ....... I still like it, and pretty familiar with it. Just like to rotate them both on safari.

Next time, I'll be using my 200-400mm more. I just am not able to hand hold it. The tripod doesn't work well when you have to do a lot of racing with the wild dogs!

Lynn - you're much too kind, as always!

Very interesting as always Hari, and some (many) great pictures in there. Just from the first two pages I really like Puppies at Sunset (who wouldn't?), leopard and the bathing hyena shots. Puppies Confirmation of the worth of jumping straight to page 4 for the caracal, as well. Puppies greeting terminator is a speacial one too, I think. Cute!

Out of interest, did you request a visa through a consulate in India? Certainly sounds like a pain and it's going to put my wife off if I tell her - she's already complaining that if we do a trip to Namibia and Botswana she's going to spend more time getting the visas than she will on holiday (not even consulates here in Thailand, I think).

Thanks a lot, Kimburu. Appreciate it.

Yes, got it at the New Delhi consulate in India. Believe it or not, they opened a consulate in India only in 2007. Before that it was a bigger nightmare.

Are you sure, Thai Nationals need a visa? If so, it's best to get your agent or operator to get HATAB to process your visa (if you don't have a Bots consulate in Thailand). In the years prior, I read in the Bots Government website, that I could get the UK High Comission to process the visas ..... this is simply not true. The UK High Commission simply said they had no clue as to what I was talking about .........