Day 35: Marrow Campsite (nearby Kongola)

We'll stay a second night and while away the morning. It's nice here.

At 3:30 p.m., Dan picks us up for a three-hour boat tour. Not spectacular, but still magical. And Dan (English/has lived here for about 20 years) really knows a lot about the area and its people.

We return as night falls and are met by Kennedy and the fired-up bathing stove.

We're glad we stayed here.

By the way: The river courses are a bit confusing.

At Rundu, around the west of the Caprivi Strip, the Cubango River comes from northern Angola, flows east for a while, and turns south at Divundu, eventually seeping into the delta as the Okavango. It's a crazy idea that the masses of water that have rushed past us over the past few days dry up in an inland delta.

At Katima Mulilo in the eastern Caprivi region, the Zambezi enters from the north and flows eastward to the Vic Falls, fed primarily by the Congo (DRC).

And in between, near Kongola, flows the Kwando or Cuando, which is also fed by Angola, but carries less water at the moment. It is known as the Linyanti and then the Chobe, and later partially flows into the Zambezi, partially leading a life of its own until this branch of the river also disappears.