The road home and leaving the white elephant We set off from Nxai pan a little deflated knowing our time is nearly at an end, we drive to the South African border post only stopping at Francistown for a car wash, using the same one where the owner offered us football match tickets a few months ago. We decided to break our journey to Johannesburg and stay on the border on the Botswana side. We book a chalet for 2 nights and empty out the truck, we manage to sell ...

One last adventure in Botswana Five Days, 3200km on African roads and we make it to Planet Baobab in Botswana for one last adventure into the bush, Nxai Pan. A full day at Planet Baobab was just what was needed, washing, relaxing, swimming and a chance for me to book flights back to England via Dubai. We pack up everything ready to head off to Nxai Pan first thing in the morning. It's only 60 km down the road so we make it to the entrance gates nice and ear...

Road to Johannesburg by Maddalena (from Arusha) We had 5 intense days driving from Tanzania back to Jo'burg to fly home with only a short break in Botswana, this is Maddalena story. Day one: So today we woke up at 4.30am so we could get started. We have our android tablets to entertain us but we can't have them till 7.30am because the sun is not up and the light will distract dad. We drove all day to The Old Farm House in Iringa in Tanzania, it was dark whe...

Northern Tazania and the Serengeti Up before the sunrise to the sound of the mosques pray call was an ideal start for us, we had a 7 hour drive ahead of us, breakfast has become a familiar event in the car, bread and jam on these sorts of early start days. Edwina and I cannot grumble the kids have gotten so used to being up really early on these days, but to make it easier we let them sleep in their clothing so they can then just stumble out of there sleeping b...

Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar, Tanzania We spend 2 long days driving from the Malawi border to Dar es Salaam, we are both surprised by just how well the kids cope with the journey, the kids entrain themselves by using the imagination for play, so fantastic to watch kids grow up far too quickly these days. Our initial plan was to ship the White Elephant we bought in South Africa back to the UK, but further research shows it could be difficult to register it in the U...