{"id":6006,"date":"2018-11-26T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/?p=6006"},"modified":"2019-06-14T14:37:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T13:37:39","slug":"tales-from-a-watering-hole-my-stay-at-elephant-sands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/26\/tales-from-a-watering-hole-my-stay-at-elephant-sands\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales from a watering hole: My stay at Elephant Sands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Botswana &#8211; Elephant Sands<\/h4>\n\n\n<p>Acacia tours offer the opportunity to step out of the mundane and allow to enter into a world that is unlike anything you will ever experience. On tour with <a href=\"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/tours\/desert-and-delta-express-southbound-19SDDE12\"><strong>us<\/strong><\/a>, you will stay in remote but comfortable camps purposefully chosen to best immerse oneself into the African surroundings. Breathing open space landscapes into your lungs before gasping in delight for the countless wildlife sightings.<\/p>\n<p>You can get up close and personal with our carefully selected Elephant Sands Camp, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/openroadb4me\/\"><strong>Nathan Anderson<\/strong><\/a>, an ardent traveler, describes his breathtaking experience in a recent blog post on <a href=\"https:\/\/openroadbeforeme.com\/2018\/10\/tales-from-the-watering-hole-my-stay-at-elephant-sands.html\"><strong>The Open Road Before Me<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6007\" src=\"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Elephants-at-camp_Elephant-sands.jpg\" alt=\"Elephants at camp_Elephant sands\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Elephants-at-camp_Elephant-sands.jpg 560w, https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Elephants-at-camp_Elephant-sands-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6008\" src=\"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Elephant-Sands_Camp.jpg\" alt=\"Elephant Sands_Camp\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Elephant-Sands_Camp.jpg 560w, https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Elephant-Sands_Camp-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6009\" src=\"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Elephants_Elephant-Sands.jpg\" alt=\"Elephants_Elephant Sands\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Elephants_Elephant-Sands.jpg 560w, https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Elephants_Elephant-Sands-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6010\" src=\"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Zebra_Elephant-Sands.jpg\" alt=\"Zebra_Elephant Sands\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Zebra_Elephant-Sands.jpg 560w, https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Zebra_Elephant-Sands-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana &#8211; Elephant Sands Acacia tours offer the opportunity to step out of the mundane and allow to enter into a world that is unlike anything you will ever experience&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29,30,32],"tags":[48,50,52,60,77,617,94,95,124,128,616,188,249,297,301,305,319,618,421],"class_list":["post-6006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-acacia","category-accommodated-overlanding","category-botswana","category-overland","tag-adventure","tag-africa","tag-africa-overland-tour","tag-african-overlanding","tag-bloggers","tag-botswana-camp","tag-camping","tag-camping-safari","tag-conservation","tag-culture","tag-elephant-sands","tag-game-viewing","tag-local-responsible-travel","tag-overland-africa","tag-overlanding","tag-photography","tag-responsible-tourism","tag-watering-hole","tag-wildlife"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elephant tales around a waterhole - Elephant Sands in Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Visit Elephant Sands in Botswana. 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