What next? It’s funny how things turn out. After 65 days in the Kalahari Transfrontier Park, we spend less than 2 weeks in Namibia, less than 24 hours in Botswana and find ourselves back in South Africa! The plan had been to spend a month in Namibia then enter Botswana for a visit to the Moremi Game Reserve on the edge of the Okavango Delta, followed by Easter in Chobe National Park. When we booked the camps 12 months previously we were thinking that two reco...

Four Brits in the Kalahari 115 litres of drinking water, 255 litres of petrol, 65 litres of wine, 6 bottles of spirits 8kgs of rice, 5kgs of pasta, 12kgs of potatoes, 45 tins of food 80kgs of frozen meat and fish, 8 litres of long life milk 48 bags of crisps, 12 packets of biscuits & crackers 1 very large tin of Stuart's homemade rusks 12 Xmas puddings (well they were half price after Christmas!) 2 crates of car & trailer spares, 4 bags of charco...

8 Days in Zimbabwe It is fair to say that in our Africa travels we have crossed a few borders. The one from Livingstone, Zambia to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe has to be the most visually impressive. I hasten to add that I am not talking about the actual border posts of either country, those are the usual collection of ramshackle buildings, often unmarked and designed to frustrate the hell out of any normal traveller. This border has a distinct scenic adva...

Farewell to Malawi and Zambia "This is the worst road we've been on in Africa!" Given that my eyeballs, teeth and cojones were rattling in synch with the Landrover, I wasn't about to argue with Angela. We were on a 17 kilometre stretch of gravel interspersed with potholes and gullies that passed as the road to Cape Maclear, Lake Malawi National Park. Despite driving in diff lock and second gear, we fishtailed, bounced and rattled all the way to Chemb...

No Nik Naks in Nyika "He's nicked my Nik Naks!" Angela's despairing cry was sadly too late to save the last packet of her favourite savoury snack from the talons of a white backed raven. I did feel for her, her second last packet had been snatched from the rear parcel shelf of the Landrover by a very agile Vervet monkey in South Luangwa! Naughty animals have been a running theme of our trip north of Namibia. Sat around the campfire at Mukambi Lodge...