Tourist Info at Kasane Photo

Photographer’s Note

Tourist Info at Kasane. Kasane is a village with two 4-stars hotels and one police station and one super market and about five smaller other shops.

Picture taken in the wide angle format of the pocket camera.

from Wikipedia:
Kasane is a town in Botswana, close to Africa's 'Four Corners', where four countries meet: Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is at the far north-eastern corner of Botswana where it serves as the administative center of the Chobe District. The population of Kasane was 7,638 in 2001 census.

The town lies on the south bank of the 200–300 m wide Chobe River which forms the border with the extreme tip of Namibia's Caprivi Strip, though the swamps on the Namibian side prevent any habitation on that side or river crossings to it. About 8 km to the east of Kasane Botswana has 1.6 km of frontage to the Zambezi river immediately below its confluence with the Chobe River, and here the Kasane border post serves the Kazungula Ferry crossing to Zambia on the north bank of the Zambezi. Nearby a second border post serves the road into Zimbabwe which runs 80 km along the south bank of the Zambezi to Victoria Falls.

Kasane is at the northern end of the tarred highway from Francistown and Gaborone which is a regional artery between southern and central Africa particularly for trucks too heavy for the Victoria Falls Bridge's periodic weight retrictions.

Buin, snunney, Wandering_Dan, saylan-cb, paololg, dareco, buscape, shevchenko, plimrn, Graal, Jakab, dip, brevbrev14 has marked this note useful

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Buin (36786) 2008-12-04 4:48

Hallo Achim!
Irgendwie rührend. Man versucht wirklich, dieses Büro und sein Umfeld ansprechend zu gestalten. Wenn man da an den hier herrschenden Repräsentationswahnsinn denkt ...
Ein interessantes Foto - wirklich "aus einer anderen Welt".
Grüße aus Siegen - mit Schneeregen!
Frank

mikolaj_kawa (29344) 2008-12-04 4:54

Hello Achim! Very interesting place. Good POV and capture. Nice light, bright and colours. Very funny shot. God luck!

snunney (33988) 2008-12-04 5:08

Hello Achim,
A good capture of this gaily painted tourist office with its interesting garden features. Thanks for sharing.

Wandering_Dan (3169) 2008-12-04 6:36

Hi, Achim -

Well, it's no worse than some other tourist info centers I've seen in that part of the world! Very nice bit of local color.

Best,
Dan

CLODO (3974) 2008-12-04 11:29

Hi JFK,
Good and interesting shot, but I would have removed the front part and cut the topjust above the roof, in order to be focused only on house
Regards
CLODO

saylan-cb (12726) 2008-12-04 12:00

Hi Achim,
A very good captured whit nice colours the light and details are excellent.
TFS/Regards

marietom (31766) 2008-12-04 12:31

hello Achim,

Typical colors of Africa, walls are beautiful here. Nice composition.
Bonne soirée
Marie

paololg (13130) 2008-12-04 15:02

Ciao Achim,
interesting testimony from Africa, where everything is simpler and genuine, as we can be seen by this tourist information centre, in perfect African style. Very pleasant image, compliment!
Ciao
Paolo

dareco (17024) 2008-12-04 16:55

Very interesting artwork and decoration. The colors really grab ones attention. An informative note as well. TFS

buscape (3395) 2008-12-04 19:26

Hallo Achim,
interessante Aufnahme dieser afrikanischen Tourist-Info.
Einfache aber nette Gestaltung dieser Touristenauskunft. Auch wenn das nicht mit unserem Standard zu vergleichen ist, gefällt mir vor allem die liebevolle Art, wie sie bis ins kleinste Detail diesen Platz hergerichtet haben. Einfach sehenswert.
Viele Grüsse aus dem regnerischen Donautal,
Helmut

shevchenko (9724) 2008-12-04 21:10

Hi Achim,
Interesting composition to show an artistic corner from the village, I like mural and painting on the rocks, very strange arrangement of rocks at the yard, thanks for sharing the unique local architectures.
Ally

Nicou (43771) 2008-12-05 1:08

Hello,

Elle est trrès belle cette Cabane en tôle avec de belles couleur, de belles décoartions, ces cailloux blan qui délimitent l'ensemble, très belle compo.

bravo et amitié

Nicou

plimrn (19552) 2008-12-05 11:05

Hi Achim,
I fell in love with Botswana through the Books of Alexander McColl Smith; books like,'The #1 Lady's Dectective Agency.' This photo matches perfectly the word pictures he has drawn for me. I love it!!
HLJ, Pat

Graal (57208) 2008-12-05 23:06

Hi Achim,
an interesting place and documental shot. Good informations. Well photojob. Fine travel You had.
Gr., Aleksander

Jakab (3404) 2008-12-06 12:28

Hallo Achim,
wie sollte ich formulieren - ein eigenartiges Szene. Wahrscheinlich nicht typisch für das reichte Land des schwarzen Afrika, allerdings interessant.
Viele Grüße
Laszlo

dip (12406) 2008-12-08 11:38

Hallo Achim,
Ich finde Dein Foto sehr interessant und qualitativ sehr gut,
der Platz ist einfach aber liebvoll hergerichtet und eigentlich wozu braucht man Glass-Türen und Teppiche,hauptsache es funktioniert!
TFS,
Grüße,
Dimitris.

wolf38 (12475) 2008-12-16 22:46

Hallo Achim. Wenn ich die Länderübereschriften sehe staune ich, wo Du schon alles warst. Die Tourist Info ist natürlich ein sehenswerter Blickfang erster Klasse. Ein ideales Photo für TE. Viele Grüße, Wolfgang.

brevbrev14 (370) 2009-02-11 10:25

Hi Achim, interesting example of architecture
really a little village this one!
interesting note too
ciao!
Valeria

Photo Information

Copyright: Achim Fried (John_F_Kennedy) (30545)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-09-27
Categories: Daily Life
Camera: Canon IXUS 960IS
Exposure: f/3.2, 1/1250 seconds
More Photo Info: view
Photo Version: Original Version
Travelogue: 2008/09 South of Africa
Theme(s): Achim's favourite Public Buildings, Achim's favourites of Africa [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2008-12-04 4:41