Pippa and I left Cape Town on 28 September and had 2 overnight stops on the way up to Martins Drift border post. We stayed at Travalia near 3 Sisters and Hullabaloo in Lichtenburg. Both offered decent accommodation at reasonable…

Kubu Island and Hwange – October 2018
At last…Another trip is soon to happen!
It’s been a while since we last posted anything. The simple reason for that is that we’ve had nothing of interest to post in recent months! That’s about to change. Bookings have been made and final preparations are under way…

A weekend away at Grootvadersbosch…where on Earth is that?!!
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…

A short visit to the Karoo National Park
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…

A weekend away at Vrolijkheid Nature Reserve
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…

A 2 day break-away to Rocherpan Nature Reserve
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…
So…where are we now?
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…

Kgalagadi (2016): Part 2 – Kgalagadi at last!
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…

Kgalagadi (2016): Part 1 – A disastrous first attempt!
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 & Kariba (June2016): Part 2 – Kariba and then home
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…