Currently sitting in Coconut Bay Mozambique. Thinking I will do some short quick posts to try and catch up. Unfortunately, now that I start this post, I realise just how much we have done, and it is only getting worse as we are now travelling faster in more exotic territory. We flew back to Cape …
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Some highlights of the second entry into Kruger. First camp Skukuza. A busy campsite, there is a restored train known as the Kruger Shalati sitting on the rail bridge that spans the Sabi River. These trains once carried visitors into the park nearly a century ago, this was stopped because too many animals were being …
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Kruger park was full for this week so we left to have a look around the Blyde River Canyon. On the drive up to the Blyde River Forever Resort campsite we found ourselves in the middle of a celebration. Lots of drinking and yahooing. I thought it might be a soccer or a rugby match …
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When the Elephant Came to Visit. Mazhou camp has an electric fence to keep the animals out so we thought it would be relatively safe, except that when we arrived we found out that the gate had been broken a few nights before by an elephant. One evening, after the camp was asleep after a …
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Stop 1: We spent a few days in Sondela Nature Reserve and Spa. The first game drive was interesting. During the drive we alighted to look at a midden made by a Wildebeest. While standing there a warthog came running towards us. A bit concerned we stood our ground. To our surprise it came up …
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We arrived to -3C in Johannesburg after the usual uneventful but long flight. Antonie from Southern Africa Overland Storage picked us up from the airport and took us shopping on the way to the warehouse. At the warehouse we found the truck batteries flat. Luckily, we have a battery isolator/combiner and were able to connect …
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The truck in currently at South Africa Overland Storage. They were great people to deal with. We are back on the 24th of June with a plan to drive through Botswana around the Makgadikgadi Pans, back through Kruger and then either up the bottom of Mozambique or to the Drakensburg Mountains. Ultimate Routes are doing …
From Zimbabwe Ruins to Johannesburg We left Great Zimbabwe with a loose plan, a fridge full of supplies, and dust already coating everything inside the camper, ready to tackle the Hiway detour to the South African border. The highway south from Masvingo is more ‘choose your own adventure’ than actual road. Potholes, herds of cattle, …
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Africa 24th January to 6th April 2025. A road trip from Cape Town, South Africa to Namibia. Up the coast of Namibia, along the Caprivi strip and the tip of Botswana into Zimbabwe. Back to Joburg via Tzaneen. One of the most epic Southern African journeys you can take. It combines beautiful wineries, dramatic coastal …
In-between getting a few things done on the truck we went into Cape Town to look at some historical sites. Robben Island Tour guide was a former political prisoner, which made it worthwhile. We were shown Nelson Mandela’s cell and Robert Sobukwe House, where he was kept in solitary confinement for six years. Sobukwe, leader …
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