Eli and Guy Safaris

14/09/2026

Vogelsafari Botswana — December 2026 🦅🇧🇼
Beleef Botswana tijdens het groene seizoen en ontdek de enorme diversiteit aan vogels van de Okavango Delta en haar omgeving.
Van wetlands en open savannes tot trekvogels, kleurrijke soorten en indrukwekkend wildlife — deze reis is meer dan alleen vogels.
Ga met ons mee voor een persoonlijke safari vol vogels, wildlife, bijzondere landschappen en de echte wildernis van Botswana.
📅 December 2026
📍 Botswana & Okavango Delta
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Eli & Guy Safaris
Botswana. Your way.

11/09/2026

Driving through Botswana in your own or rented 4x4?

If you’re already in Botswana, or preparing for a self-drive trip, I’m offering practical pre-departure training in Maun, tailored to your route, vehicle, experience level and the people travelling with you.
The idea is simple: help you feel more prepared before heading into remote areas — not only for the driving, but also for the situations that make Botswana different.
4x4 driving: sand, corrugations, mud, tyre pressures, 4H/4L, diff lock, terrain assessment and recovery basics
Wildlife awareness: especially elephant behaviour, positioning, warning signs and safer decision-making around animals
Camp safety: unfenced camps, lions, hyenas, food/attractants, night awareness, and practical safety for families and children
Route-specific preparation: built around where you’re actually planning to go
This is practical, hands-on training based around real Botswana conditions rather than a generic off-road course.
For self-drivers, families, overland travellers and small groups.

Courses available in English, Spanish and Dutch.

📍 Maun, Botswana
🌐 www.eliandguysafaris.com
📱 WhatsApp: +267 72290988

Eli & Guy Travel Agency
Practical training built around your route and needs.

07/09/2026

Botswana. Your way. 🐘
There is no single way to experience Botswana.
Explore the Okavango Delta, travel on a self-drive adventure, join a mobile safari, stay in carefully selected lodges, or go deeper into the bush through our Guiding Academy.
At Eli & Guy Safaris, we create tailor-made journeys built around the way you want to travel.
Wild landscapes. Extraordinary wildlife. Authentic experiences.
Ready to start planning your Botswana journey? Send us a message or visit our website.

07/09/2026

Botswana. Your way. 🐘
There is no single way to experience Botswana.
Explore the Okavango Delta, travel on a self-drive adventure, join a mobile safari, stay in carefully selected lodges, or go deeper into the bush through our Guiding Academy.
At Eli & Guy Safaris, we create tailor-made journeys around the way you want to travel.
Wild landscapes. Extraordinary wildlife. Authentic experiences.
Ready to start planning your Botswana journey?
Send us a message or visit our website to get in touch.

04/09/2026

First Botswana Field 4x4 & Bush Safety Training in the books.
This week we ran our first practical field training in Maun with instructors from Round River Conservation Studies, in collaboration with Career Dreams Centre.
What was originally planned as a three-hour session turned into a much longer day in and around the vehicle — covering 4WD systems, tyre pressures, deep sand, mud and water assessment, recovery techniques, changing a wheel, Hi-Lift use, vehicle preparation and wildlife safety.
One of the best parts was being able to use situations we encountered along the way as part of the training. Because in the bush, the lesson is not simply knowing what button to press or what gear to select. It is learning to read the terrain, understand what the vehicle is telling you, and make the right decision before a small problem becomes a recovery.
STOP EARLY → ASSESS → DECIDE → ACT
A great first session, and a lot learned on both sides.
Eli & Guy Travel Agency × Career Dreams Centre
Maun, Botswana
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14/03/2026

700 million kms away from your room in a second, where the faint sunlight can’t dim the mantle of the constellations, beautiful in their silence. Clouds of orange & gray unveil a second horizon above the ice, painted blue by a distant sun. Thin rings surround the giant God, extending hundreds of thousands of kilometres. That’s Jupiter, in all his splendour.
Waves, frozen in time, extend underneath your feet, broken not by shores, but by cracks and craters, suspending a violent history of cosmic collisions in time. This moon is bigger than Pluto or Mercury, yet the gravitational pull is much weaker than inside your room back home. The ice hides a warm ocean that may be full of life, full of unimaginable creatures known to mankind.
A soft kick of drums echoes with the heart, reminding you of being alive. At that moment, the idea of jumping comes to mind, but you’re afraid you may escape gravity and drift away. So you jump softly, testing gravity.
Ganymede holds you back.
Nothing go fit to change am.
Then, the Universe will worry, because maybe in that moment you’ll feel happy and jump again with all your strength, spinning in the air three meters above the surface, catching a glimpse of Earth.
A faint taste may perch on your lips, something never experienced before —
sweet like honey, fragrant like flowers, soft, golden and luminous, light and perfect, an immortal elixir of life: Ambrosia, the food that Ganymede, the most beautiful man on Earth, feeds to Jupiter every day.
And perhaps one day that sweet flavour would make you smile.
And the universe knows quite well that your smile could dim all the lights of the constellations.
Meanwhile, I’m still here, another passenger on that point of light dancing to a dim light, rushing through the night and carrying my dreams of water lilies blossoming above the gentle stream of the Okavango, soft, golden and luminous in the quiet breeze.
Dreaming about pretending I can ride a wave forever, around the corners of the Milky Way, back to Ganymede and its frozen seas, back to Earth, the songs of birds, warm breezes caressing my face, the sweet air of the sunset, your soft hand on mine as we drift through the night together.

14/03/2026

The river has taken me.
The touch of the water
connects me to the whole Delta.
The water is still, yet
a waterfall of euphoria
rushes through my body.
A deep murmur of wonder
connects me to other worlds.
The sun gently opens my eyes.
I see your silhouette and realize
I'm glad we're in the same world right now.

14/03/2026

THE BIRD AT THE WINDOW
(WHAT THE DUST REMEMBERS)

When all that remains of love
is an inventory,
an inventory
of memories cured in salt,
a scapular with no faith,
no God to hold it,
an itinerary of journeys with no return,
a wrinkled wall of portraits without my face,
bloodstains behind UNICEF posters,
boxes of gifts without gratitude
that only the dust remembers;
on the armchair I once became,
withered with thirst,
an old dog sleeps there,
rotting in the tenderness
I never knew first.

I don’t miss you —
I miss the part of me
that knew how to love you,
the part of me
that believed in worth.

When behind a shattered pane
that turned my illusions into princesses
a songbird sings,
and the songbird sings
echoes of lilies dancing
beneath the moon over the Okavango,
a nameless flower waits for me
among the lycaons,
listening the earth,
listening the earth
laid bare.

When autumn tears the nests from the trees,
when autumn tears the nests,
there are more than enough reasons —
more than enough reasons
to take flight.

18/05/2025