So where is Grootvadersbosch you might ask? We’d certainly never heard of it before being invited to join the team from the Warrior on Wheels Foundation to assess the Universal Accessibility of the accommodation and facilities at another of Cape…
At the beginning of December we made a spur of the moment decision to go to the Karoo National Park for a few days. We were both impressed with the park when we stopped over there for a night on…
It’s been a while but we’re up and running again and had a welcome weekend away at Vrolijkheid at the end of October. The good news is that our Landy is back in action and it was a good opportunity…
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.…