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We only had a day before our Malawi Visas expired, so drove 160km north up the lake to the Songwe Bridge border with Tanzania. A good road, but pretty slow due to the heavy rain and a number of slow … Continue reading
Category Archives: Borders
Very disappointed to leave Wildlife Camp at South Luangwa. it probably rates in our Top 5 so far. However, we were Malawi bound. 180km or so back to Chipata, on the best road we’ve driven in Africa (probably because it’s … Continue reading
Our last night in Botswana was at Chobe Safari Lodge. The camp there has good shade, friendly staff and is next to the wide Chobe river. Uneventful, other than the normal Warthogs running through the undergrowth and a Baboon who … Continue reading
We left Kruger by the Phalaborwa gate and headed west. It was strange to be on main roads again. Despite them being quiet, for the first couple of hours the speed was almost un-nerving (55mph / 80kph!!). Driving through villages … Continue reading
Christmas was spent camped at a water-sports resort but, since we’ve not had Internet for a couple of weeks, I’ll back-track a little. We had left the Kalahari (Kgalagadi, as it’s been locally known for many generations) looking for a … Continue reading
The Kalahari Desert wasn’t exactly what I was expecting – parts of it were green! We found out later that the colours were due to 3 days of heavy rain that had fallen about a week earlier. It added little … Continue reading
Wow, The Cape was lovely but I’d never have thought Namibia could out-do it. We travelled to Vioolsdrift, then crossed into Namibia at Noerdower (spelling varies) 200km of dusty, gravel roads without another car in site. Our car filled with … Continue reading
It’s been quite an eventful 2 days getting out of Turkey. We decided to drive through the heart of the country, rather than back round the coast, in an effort to get to Rotterdam as soon as possible to put … Continue reading
We’ve GOT to get out of here! To bring everyone up to date briefly…. We didn’t get the car into the container in Limassol last week. When we got to Limassol Customs Office, our shipping agent got us through the … Continue reading
‘….and now, The Shipping Forecast.’ There seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel. As mentioned previously, although the Cypriot Customs in Nicosia issued us with Temporary Import paperwork for the car, what those papers actually mean … Continue reading