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Kelly Kidson (now Robertson) shares her magical Botswana engagement love story.<\/strong><\/p>\n What\u2019s the most romantic place on earth you ask? I\u2019d answer without a second thought: \u2018It\u2019s Botswana!\u2019 The romance of Botswana is unquestionable. And it was the perfect setting to be asked the most important and \u2018butterflies-in-my-tummy\u2019 filled question of my life.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It was the 21st of March, and we were at our happy place. The whiteness of the Makgadikgadi salt pan sands encircled us, interspersed with honey-gold tufts of Botswana grassveld. We dotted that landscape \u2013 the only two human dots there. Beside Sowa Pan, its salty water waters licking softly at the shore, he was down on one knee looking up at me with wide eyes and I gasped\u2026 loudly. My hands flew to my cheeks in surprise and wordless delight as I realised what was happening. In the next breath I found my voice and repeated the answer from behind the widest grin and tear-blinking eyes. \u2018Yes! Of course, yes!\u2019 I shrieked as he placed the one-of-a-kind ring on my waiting finger. He swung me around in his arms, between kisses, giggling and overwhelming happiness.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Too nauseatingly gushy for you?\u00a0 Tough! That\u2019s exactly how it all happened and I haven\u2019t been able to wipe the monkey smile off my face since. If I\u2019m writing like we\u2019re in a\u00a0Mills and Boons<\/i>\u00a0novel set in the pans then I\u2019m ok with that. I was proposed to in my favourite place by the love of my life. I\u2019m completely caught up in the romance of it all so just give into it and share the mushy romance. It\u2019s real.<\/p>\n It was a moment I\u2019ll rewind and watch over and over again in my mind forever. A moment that was ours alone; witnessed only by a solitary pelican on the water, a flock of flamingos that flew over at sunset and a few wildebeest in the far background. It couldn\u2019t have been more perfect. It couldn\u2019t have been anywhere else but Botswana. The exact spot in the Makgadikgadi Pans, where our engagement took place is special to us. It\u2019s on the sandy shoreline at the \u2018platform\u2019- a small elevated wooden viewpoint structure next to one of the largest bodies of water within the Nata Bird Sanctuary.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The water is ocean-like in its vastness and from that spot near the platform; you can\u2019t see its end. Birdlife is plentiful and busy, and that\u2019s the only thing that bustles there. \u00a0It\u2019s quiet. It\u2019s remote. And it\u2019s oh-so-romantic in its wildness and natural beauty.<\/p>\n Just over 3 years before this, we discovered this spot. We were on our first trip as a new couple and on our first night in Botswana we bush-camped right there, at our future engagement site. Similarly, we were the only two humans around then and had the expanse of natural wonderment all to ourselves. We were in awe of it then and on our return trip we felt the same sense of amazement and the feeling that we were part of that landscape.<\/p>\n The rest of our trip transformed into a romantic engagement holiday where we celebrated in our own bush-loving way at each stop. We traversed through the flat, wild and intoxicating landscape that is elephant country from Nata to Kasane, onto a\u00a0houseboat on the Chobe River and then into the Chobe National Park . We then headed back to the South African border by camping at some incredible spots.<\/p>\n \u00a0The Botswana bush is wild at heart and murmurs of constant adventure. Sunsets are more vivid and command silence and reflection and the sundowners at the best time of day taste better. It\u2019s the perfect setting for an African love story.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Planning a romantic getaway in Botswana?<\/strong><\/p>\n Kelly Recommends\u2026<\/p>\n Nata Lodge<\/a>: We were spoilt with champagne, congratulations and chilled bushveld recuperation at Nata Lodge. We especially loved staying in a safari tent there. Ours was next to a giant termite mound and boasted the most romantic outdoor shower too. Nata Lodge is an absolute must as a stop over stop on route towards Chobe whether you camp or treat yourselves to a night in the rustic safari accommodation options. They also offer pan drives as an extra activity and we went on a guided drive through the Nata Bird Sanctuary as part of our stay. Stay for 2 nights if you can.<\/p>\n Original article published on Bushbound Girl<\/a>. Read the full article\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kelly Kidson (now Robertson) shares her magical Botswana engagement love story. What\u2019s the most romantic place on earth you ask? I\u2019d answer without a second thought: \u2018It\u2019s Botswana!\u2019 The romance of Botswana is unquestionable. And it was the perfect setting to be asked the most important and \u2018butterflies-in-my-tummy\u2019 filled question of my life. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,6],"tags":[27,15,25,63,26,37,51,38,66,171],"yoast_head":"\n
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