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Chitabe Camp, Botswana
13 May 2009
Dear Chitabe guests (past, present and future) and regular readers of this newsletter, please allow me to apologise for the long radio silence!
Whilst Chitabe Lediba stayed open over the past three months, the rooms in Main Camp have been completely rebuilt in an ambitious project which has kept us pretty busy. We all got our hands dirty either painting wooden decks, hanging pictures, redesigning the kitchen or deciding where to put the new cushions The rooms are fantastic. Dave Hamman has taken eight of his best photographs and the interior of each room has been designed around these centrepieces by Helene so that each room is unique.
Other exciting news is that we are all very proud of Janet, our Seniour Housekeeper, whose Maun-born daughter Amantle Monthso-Nkape was the only African female athlete to get through to the final of her 800m at the Beijing Olympics, and for the third year running was voted 'Botswana Sportswoman of the Year' as well as 'Sportsperson of the Year 2009'. Amantle is also the current 400m African record holder.
We haven't experienced the big flood that is affecting the camps to the north of us but they all say it's coming ... In the meantime safaris have been excellent with regular cheetah, lion and leopard sightings (Dawson added our 21st leopard to the local leopard database), large herds of zebra, elephant, giraffe, the nocturnal ramblings of both hippo and Cape buffalo in camp plus the excitement of wild dogs looking for a den ...
Well, the marulas are ripe and I'm off to make chutney. Many thanks to Dawson, Aukie and Aubrey Peacock for the photos.
Come visit our new place soon,
Nick
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