We were contacted by our friends, Richard and Ella, and asked if we’d like to join them at Rocherpan Nature Reserve for a couple of days? What a question…yes please! Not only was it a great opportunity to get out…
Now that we’re up to date with all our past trip reports I guess you might be wondering what next? To be honest…we’re also wondering! Unfortunately our Land Rover has let us down again. It had been running beautifully after…
So…fast forward 9 weeks and with a new sub-assembly installed in the Land Rover, off we go to the Kgalagadi. SanParks were fantastic and in spite of very clear cancellation rules they still gave us a very generous refund of…
This was to be our first visit to the South African side of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, having had a brief visit to Mabuasehube in 2012. We decided that for this trip we’d stay in the SanParks accommodation and check…
Mana Pools to Kariba Soon after turning onto the A1 highway we heard an ominous noise behind us. It sounded very much like the noise we had when leaving Moremi a couple of years previously. We drove on until we could pull…
The build-up and start of our trip to Mana Pools was very stressful. Our plan was to leave Cape Town on a Monday morning. On the Friday afternoon before that a suspension fault warning suddenly lit up on our Land Rover. Fortunately our friends at Twin…
With slightly less than 300km to travel to get to Kasane there was no rush leaving Camp Kwando and we got away at about 8:30am. First stop was of course Katima Mulilo to find a craft market and a miniature Mokoro.…
Pippa and I were both looking forward to our trip through the Caprivi. Pippa had worked at the State Hospital in Rundu in the late 1970’s and visited various Mission Stations between Rundu and Popa Falls as part of her nursing…
Another year and another trip up north! This time up through Namibia to Etosha National Park, across the Caprivi Strip (now called the Zambezi Region) and finally into Botswana for another visit to Chobe National Park before heading home. We left…
Our trip from 3rd Bridge to Tshima Bush Camp near Maun and then our journey home. We were up early to pack and get going on the start of our long journey home. I was feeling a lot better. The medication as…