Drove past Fish River canyon, then Clanwilliam and back to Cape Town
After a lunch of fish and ships surrounded by cheeky seagulls we spent the afternoon desperately shopping for gifts before retiring to an Irish Pub to recover. Later on met the group to return to the House of Meat from the first night, where [...]
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The End – Cape Town, South Africa
Biggest sand dune in the world – Sesriem, Namibia
After a long drive across the featureless Namib desert we arrived at Sesriem and my favourite campsite where we drank warm beer and played the locals on a dilapidated pool table long into the evening.
The next day we got up early to walk over dune 44 to Dead Vlei, a clay pan near the salt [...]
A perfect day out – Swakopmund, Namibia
Three days drive via a petrified forest and Cape Cross seal colony (120,000 seals in one place stinks) to the resort of Swakopmund – a bit like Benidorm for Germans
Spent the morning sea fishing off a boat – caught mostly inedible crayfish, but also a few bream, including a massive one that got away… Watched [...]
Etosha National Park – Etosha, Namibia
Two days in the Etosha National Park with more game viewing – saw the usual, plus Gemsbok, Springbok, Jackal and Wildebeest. Also saw a lion chasing a giraffe. Not sure I wanted to see it getting ripped to shreds, but it managed to get away.
Highlight was getting a glimpse of a rare Black Rhino.
Saw some [...]
The “Funky Camp” – Ngepi, Namibia
Two days driving got us to Namibia and the long promised “funky camp” at Ngepi. It had a lot of quirky features such as outside toilets and a swimming cage in the Okavango river without getting attacked by the ever present hippos.
Later in the evening we went for a walk into the local tribal village [...]
Zambezi Gorge – Livingstone, Zambia
Image by ctsnow via Flickr
Crossed from Zimbabwe to Zambia to stay in a campsite on the other side of the falls. Some of the group went to view the falls by microlite, but I opted for the helicopter option, which was probably a mistake, but still looked amazing.
In the afternoon we went to do the [...]
Victoria Falls – Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Went from Botswana into Zimbabwe to get the best view of Victoria Falls. As we cleared the border crossing we saw some extremely rare African Wild Dogs, but the real joy was seeing how excited Kevin and Francis got at the sighting. Also saw a Sable antelope, but were more worried by the angry elephant [...]
Chobe National Park – Chobe, Botswana
Another day another, game park. On the way there we passed the Tour d’Afrique coming the other way, looking surprisingly chipper considering they were cycling 12,000km from Cairo to Cape Town.
Saw lots of Eland – looks like an impala, but without the stripes on the rear.
The Chobe National Park campsite had a resident warthog, but [...]
Animals! – Xaxanaka, Botswana
Unpacked the truck and moved all our gear to 4×4’s for our first game drive – 2 nights in the Moremi Game Reserve.
Given the time of year we were very lucky with the 2 hour drive into the improbably named Xaxanaka – we saw giraffe, impala, zebra, elephants, warthogs and baboons. Arriving at the wild [...]
A bit too relaxed – Maun, Botswana
After a short drive we arrived at Maun, were we chose to upgrade to fixed tents. This caused much consternation to one of the group as one of the tents had one less window than all the others. Everyone else sensibly ignored it.
The campsite was attached to a decent hotel with a pool and bar, [...]
