Early morning birds we where during this trip, necessary checks, aircraft loading, and here we go again.
After landing in Kassane, a small drive took us to to the junction of four countries - Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe - and near the meeting place of the mighty Zambezi and Chobe Rivers, a crafted piece of aluminum with a shape of a boat took us to Impalila Island. A water-bound wonderland.
Under a small Namibian flag, a house hosts a border control post. A stamp in the passport opens the door to de Caprivi strip.
Caprivi was named after German Chancellor Leo von Caprivi (in office 1890-1894), who negotiated the acquisition of the land in an 1890 exchange with the United Kingdom. Von Caprivi arranged for Caprivi to be annexed to German South-West Africa in order to give Germany access to the Zambezi River and a route to Africa's east coast, where the German colony Tanganyika was situated. (The river later proved unnavigable.) The annexation was a part of the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty, in which Germany gave up its interest in Zanzibar in return for the Caprivi Strip and the island of Heligoland in the North Sea.
At Impalila Island Lodge the manager waited us with a friendly smile. Settled we where, the rest... see for yourself!
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