Last Days in Maun

Students participating in a basket weaving class at the Women’s Cooperative. The Co-op has over 400 participants who gather the veld products for dying and weaving the baskets, a cultural symbol of Botswana.

 Studiously attending to their weaving are our UT Program Coordinator from Study Abroad, Melissa Sassi on the left (during her site visit to our program) and Tori on the right.

 A close-up of Melissa’s basket-in-progress.

 At the far right is the head of the Women’s Work cooperative, Thitanya Kushonya, who has exhibited her baskets internationally including at the Atlanta Olympics. She is also a recent winner of the Sub-Saharan Africa basket weaving competition.

 A relaxing Sunday boat cruise, with one of safari leaders, Colin Dandridge, at the helm and his brother and co-safari leader Daryl Dandridge pictured next to one of the Okavango River Lodge camp dogs.

The roof provided plenty of protection from the African afternoon sun, though many of us are already sporting quite nice “farmer’s tans”.

 Termites are a critical component of ecosystem processes. Here, a large termite mound is placed along the Boro River, over 4 meters tall.