Pafuri to Swimuwini, Gonarezhou National Park 1 June 2018 About 180 km, 4 border posts, 3 countries, 2 river crossings, 8 hours We left the comfort of Pafuri ready for a long day. The Pafuri border post opens at 8 am, and we were the second group of people for the day to leave …
Day 7- 10 Sunday 27 May to Thursday 31 May 2018 The day started at Crocodile Bridge Rest Camp with tea, shower, and packing Klippie, while watching an elephant saunter by, have a back scratch on a tree, before disappearing down to the river. A family of banded mongoose made incredible efforts to raid the …
Day 4 Pretoria to Satara Camp, Kruger National Park After a Murray breakfast, we left Pretoria just before 8 am, and drove via Witbank to Orpen Gate, KNP. We stopped in Belfast at the Spar to stack up on fresh food and packed our little fridges to the brim. Another essential stop in Dullstroom for …
D-Day = Departure Day – 21 May dawns, tea, breakfast with the kids, and the last packing… and it is raining. At last I am feeling excited, still stuff I haven’t done that I wanted to before we left, but too bad. At 8:44, odometer zeroed, we headed off. Audiobook started after about 5 mins …
This has been a crazy week. It is incredible how much preparation one has to do to make sure everything keeps ticking over at home. What ever is not done at this stage, well, just tough. We will make plans as we go. Thanks to so many for the support, ideas, visits, during the build …
Reality is kicking in with 7 sleeps left until we hit the road! Mixture of huge excitement and nerves. The highlight of the this last week is my 50 th birthday present from Friends and Family…. your contributions have paid for my dream…a hot air balloon ride over the African plains. I am so so …
COUNTDOWN 12 days to go, and so much still to do! We have planned the route, booked some of the places, leaving some to chance. Inoculations are done, travel clinic has been visited and I am trying to figure out the best way to pack the unbelievable amount of meds we need to take with …
Klippie is our roll-on-roll-off camper that fits onto the back of our bakkie. It is called a Klipspringer and is designed and manufactured in Cape Town – see www.roro.co.za. It contains everything we should need to be self-sufficient on our journey from Cape Town to Tanzania and back, camping most of the way. …