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We met Gilles from Belgium over a glass of wine and then had coffee with him the next morning before he set out for Mozambique. He has just spent 5 months coming down the west coast of Africa from Europe. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Panoramas
The Botswana currency is the Pula (meaning ‘rain‘) and it’s divided into 100 Thebe (meaning ‘raindrops‘). Cool huh? Appropriate too as we’ve had plenty of rain since arriving. The bar at ‘The Old Bridge’ is a busy mix of back-packers, … Continue reading
Absolute bloody lunatic drivers on the big inland loop road from Port St John to Port Edward! Lovely countryside, but we couldn’t see much of it most of the time due to heavy fog and rain. That doesn’t stop the … Continue reading
We left Addo for Graaf Reinet about 350km inland – the first 50 being along the Sundays River valley which is swathed in huge Orange and lemon plantations. Odd that everyone says don’t go near elephants with citrus since they’ll … Continue reading
…Elephants. That’s what Addo National Park is all about. Its made up of over 180,000 hectares across five different biomes: Forest, Albany Thicket, Fynbos, Nama Karoo and Indian Ocean Coastal Belt (including some huge dunes). The high scrub / Thicket … Continue reading
New Year was spent in the Wilderness. Not wandering around, dazed and confused in some ethereal, mystic dream-like state, trying to ‘find ourselves‘. Wilderness is a small coastal town on the Garden Route with a pleasant, quiet campsite on the … 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
The desert roads south of Sossusvlei are almost as dramatic as the dunes themselves. For about 200km there are desert landscapes on one side of the track and mountain ranges on the other. I can’t think of anywhere else I’ve … Continue reading
There are basically 4 tar roads in Namibia & all are single lane – the B1 runs north / south, the B4 runs west from the B1 to Luderitz and the B2 runs west to Swapokmund / Walvis Bay (the … Continue reading
We did a couple more running repairs to the car:- Fitted foam rubber to all doors to try and keep the dust out: Put duck-tape (marvellous stuff) over holes in the floor where things had been bolted through before, then … Continue reading