Robert Rayner
We are Bill and Rosemary from Ashford in Kent beginning our journey on 23/9/05 to start our adventure to Africa. This is something that we have dreamed about for some years, hence the tiitle for our site - 'atlastafrica'.
Our vehicle is a 1995 110 300TDI Land Rover Defender called 'Moby', which has been carefully equipped for our trip.
We intend to travel down the West Coast to South Africa and then up the East Coast to Egypt and all the countries in between. From Egypt we will continue along the north coast of Africa through Libya and Tunisia before catching the ferry from Tunis to Genoa in Italy.
On our journey we will be spending some time in Malawi supporting the charity 'Starfish Malawi', who in just 12 months, have changed the lives of the children of Kaputu school in Salima, by raising funds to renovate and reconstruct an entire school. Please take time to visit their website www.starfish-malawi.org.uk to find out more about their work and future projects. There is a provision on the website for making a donation which goes direct to the charity and would be greatly appreciated.
A special thank you to our family, Debbie and Jonathan and Ben and Will for their support and great presents, all of which will be really useful.
Also, Les from Doddington garage, for last minute service preparations to Moby. Frogs Island 4x4 expedition and preparation centre, for some of the work to our vehicle. Dr Morey and Mr Brindle our local doctor and dentist, for preparing comprehensive medical kits. Mike Bates, Bill's clay pigeon shooting buddy, for giving a home to his guns and our old series 3 Land Rover whilst we are away. Ginette for last minute sewing, the trousers and skirt are great! The BMC Travel Clinic in Ashford, for their advice, our injections and sore arms. All our neighbours in Smeeth and other friends and family for their interest and best wishes.
Thank you also to all the staff, parents and children from Pluckley School in Kent, for their interest in our trip and support for Starfish Malawi.
Horst Zeidl Very interesting and a good round up of our own experience with this beautiful country, we stayed 10 days, went also over sani pass, stayed in 10 mile riverside (first camp after sani, very interesting and good services like horse riding dancing traditional life etc.), than near the diamand mine 3 days in a new campground, after that direct 4x4 track to St. Martins Mission Camp in the middle of nowhere, 2x Katse dam Camp- just opposite the dam, next camp in Mohale camp (free camp near the city hall with permission of the mayor) Than we took off through Maseru bridge ( the line up was only about 20 yards in the afternoon) A lot of road construction is done between Thaba Teska and the Mohale dam and a great junk has been paved to european standards. It was my second visit to lesotho and the changes in the 9 years in between have been very little except for the big projects. Kind regards Horst Zeidl
re: Mokhotlong, Lesotho