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…
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…
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…
Mana Pools & Kariba (June 2016): Part 1 – Cape Town to Mana Pools
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…
Namibia (2015): Part 3 – Camp Kwando to Kasane, a day in Chobe and then home
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.…
Namibia (2015): Part 2 – Our 6 nights in the Caprivi Strip (Zambezi Region)
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…
Namibia (2015): Part 1 – Cape Town to Etosha National Park
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…
Moremi (2014): Part 5 – 3rd Bridge back to Tshima Bush Camp and then home
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…