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    On the White Sand of the Okavango

    Jul 04, 2020 5 minutes
    By Jofie Lamprecht
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    In one of these notes, dated October 2013, I wrote: ‘Children white sand’. This was the first bucket list item I checked on my list in 2019 – bidding and winning the Mahango National Park hunting concession on the Okavango River. There are not many people in the world with a “hard to do” bucket list that can say that they have checked three items off in a single year. My children played in the white sand of the Okavango River in our own Mukongo Camp this year. “Mukongo” means “hunter” in the local Kavango language. What a privilege and an honor to both be a father and be able to roam in such a beautiful place.

    My wife Maryke and daughter Rachel joined me

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