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We’ve spent the last 3 weeks heading broadly south to get to Cape Town in order to meet our pal Judith who’s hopefully coming out from UK to see us for Easter. In the meantime though, there were a few … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Botswana
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 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
Disappointed not to be able to go into Moremi with the car, we headed 230km east from Maun, along the Makgadikgadi / Naxi Pan road. The potholes are a menace. One woman recently got into the newspapers taking a bath … Continue reading
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
Still more rain. We met up with Ben, a German chap who’s been across India, Nepal, Tibet and into China on his trusty old KTM. He came in via Libya (somehow got a ‘Business Visa’ and crossed into western Egypt … Continue reading
Whitey called… “You’re a lucky guy Scott. We all thought the turbo had blown, but we took it apart and it seems fine.” That was good news – the best price we’d had from Land Rover in Gabarone was 32,000 … 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