After the usual running repairs to the trailer, the Landrover and ourselves we are now ready to go back to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park to do a couple of 4x4 trails.The first, the Nossob Eco Trail, starts Monday and lasts 4 days. This a dune drive in a remote section of the park, with basic toilet facilities at the unfenced campsites. We take in all our wood, water, fuel etc for the trip and the trip is lead by a ranger in his vehicle (he has the gun!)Se...

Southern Namibia   “Hundreds of miles of complete b***** all” was Angela’s apt description of driving through beautiful Southern Namibia from the South African border crossing at Ariamsvlei to Ai Ais Hot Springs in the Fish River Canyon area. Not sure the tourism ministry would pay us for that strap line though!  We’d read that Namibia is the least densely populated country in Africa (4 times the size of Britain and less than 2 m...

The Practicalities of African Camping Hordes of readers have asked for some info on the practicalities of life on this trip (actually they haven't asked anything of the sort and come to think of it we haven't got hordes of readers) but here goes anyway. The Landrover Discovery and the Afrispoor Mongoose 4x4 trailer cost us around £16,000 and I guess we've spent a further £3-£4K on insurance and equipment including spares, tools, lighting, bedding, co...

From Golden Gate to Kgalagadi Park On our latest trek we've travelled from Howick to the Kalahari desert (Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park) via an extremely wet Golden Gate National Park, a very wet Kimberley, and a very dry Upington, South Africa's hottest (temp only) town. Golden Gate was notable for seeing the rare bald ibis, having a soaking wet roof top tent and mattress and having our spare tent recreate the moment from Wizard of Oz when Dorothy and ...

Arrived in Upington, gateway to the Kalahari, this lunchtime after a 410 km drive from Kimberley, after a 460km drive from Golden Gate National Park the day before. This is a big country! The GPS instruction leaving Kimberley was "Turn right in 275 kilometres" We discovered in Golden Gate that the trailer tent cover has a leak. The first night there was spent in the little tent we bought. First time I've slept on the ground since I was 8 years old and ...