Well we have had a little detour in Zambia down to Lake Kariba. This detour is lead by our dam enthusiast (Tony) who gave us lots of facts and figures to make this visit a very educational experience. This is the lake caused by the damming of the Zambezi and is huge nearly 300 km […]

We boarded a floating platform for what could have been 3 hours of nothing much and had our socks shocked off by the sights and smells. Huge herds of elephants swum the river a few meters from us, crocs snapped and the hippos wallowed and made noises a nice girl hasn’t heard before. The highlight […]

This morning we went for a drive through a part of this famous park. We started at 6am and had all our gear on as it was freezing, probably around 3 degrees and once you start travelling in the open vehicle your extremities stopped circulating. We were lucky enough to see a group of 4 […]

Donkey Love is a not altogether uncommon occurrence in this region of North Botswana through which we’re currently passing. We’re not surprised given the ratio of donkeys to humans in this neck of the woods. The following appeared in The Ngami Times yesterday; It’s happened again – well maybe it’s been happening all the time […]

We have just come out of the Okavango Delta where we have had a couple of nights under canvas. Worthogs made there nightly nest under Floyd’s sleeping platform and the roar of the lions and huge snorts of nearby hippos made our nights a bit less relaxing than having 4 walls. Also during the night […]

We have had lots of wonderful views over the last week. Fish river canyon was at the end of a dusty hot ride through a desert and was huge like the “Grand Canyon” in USA but we really missed having a coffee shop and take-aways there. Back through the desert hot and dry with huge […]

Logan Brown and The White House eat your heart out. You enter Africa with the mindset of hardship and think that you will never see another gourmet meal again. Namibia has turned out to be one of the world’s great secrets when it comes to fine dinning at a very affordable price. Tonight in Windhoek […]

We rolled into Windhoek, capital of Namibia, dusty and dry after 4 days of dirt roads. The reason for our call was primarily to check on Brendan and his bike, both of which left the group via truck and aircraft respectively, due to his suspected head gasket trouble. The good news is that a replacement […]

Across the border in an hour isn’t bad except we’ve been led to believe that this is the easiest border we’ll meet until the EU. The former homeland of Namibia welcomes us in though, and there’s a stream of 4WD vehicles heading south from Namibia’s National Park playground on this, the last day of the […]

Heading north from Capetown it isn’t long before suburbia gives way to vast open spaces – vast & open being what we mean. Firstly it’s rolling green hills, plenty of water and then it becomes scruffier and scruffier and the housing and townships more and more modest. Along the west coast at least, South Africa […]