One more night at Maun camp ground and then we headed to Etosha National Park. Etosha is Namibia's premier game reserve, covering over 20,000 square kilometres and has a large variety of animal and bird species. The park is situated around the Etosha Pan, and has an extensive network of gravel roads that enabled us to get to remote areas of the park. Whilst driving through the park our main highlights were the ever elusive leopard mother and her cub that was s...

The next morning we packed up our tents and left Victoria Falls for Chobe National Park in Botswana. At this stage of the tour our group splits up and we lost 12 people who were heading down to Johannesburg and we gained another 14 who were heading with us to Cape Town - one of which was 82 year old Herbert AKA Frank, and 3 of them were in their 60's (Ruth, Bill and Pat)and all from Australia - should be interesting !! The campsite is on the banks of the Chob...

The next morning we left lake Malawi and headed to Chipata crossing the border into Zambia. We arrived to the camp in darkness as they had had a power cut - interesting going to the loo and showering by torch light (watch out for those geckos and spiders. After dinner we went straight to bed, another early start.The next morning saw an early start as we had another long days drive ahead of us, heading for Lusaka. The mornings in the truck are normally spent sl...

After another bumpy ride we crossed the border and arrived in Tanzania. First night was spent at Snake Park camp ground in Arusha. The first thing we had to do was learn how to put up our tent (no more luxurious permanently erected tents like in the Masai Mara),which ended up being pretty simple, the hardest part was trying to roll it up and fit it back in the bag once we had dismantled it. The ground was hard dirt and dusty, with quite a few stones, no grass w...

We know this is long over due but computers are few and far between in Africa and when you do find one it's so painfully slow!! We arrived in Nairobi after a 5 hour delay at Heathrow airport. This time it wasn't due to the usual luggage delays that normally occur, but due to maintenance being carried out on the plane. As long as the maintenance kept our plane in the air, we didn't care how long it took. However while the maintenance was being carried out, a ...