Etosha has been around amazingly since 1907 (ie. 100 years old this year); it’s around 200kms wide by something less tall (maybe 70-80kms??) and a good portion of it (maybe 25%) is nothing but a massive, flat (called the “pan”)…
Windhoek, Namibia – Day 276
Left Walvis Bay shortly after lunch, stopped in Swakopmund briefly knowing we’d be back to the coastal area after our tour through the north, did the 400kms to Windhoek (pronounced “Vindhook”), Namibia’s capital city, arriving shortly after dark. Windhoek is…
Walvis Bay, Namibia – Day 273
Backtracked 100km’s directly east out of Luderitz to a small town called Aus, then against a number people’s advice, took the north turn off to start the 650km dirt road adventure up to Walvis Bay (broken up over 2 days,…
Luderitz, Namibia – Day 270
Loooong straight road from Keetmanshoop to Luderitz (paved) with the Restricted Diamond Area on the left southern side, and the edge of the Namib desert on the right northern side. Got into the sandy stuff for the last little bit,…
Fish River Canyon, Namibia – Day 268
Pulled into Karasburg right around 2pm; the idea was to stop for cash and fuel, then go another couple hundred K’s to get to the Ai-Ais Hotsprings at the Fish River Canyon. No sweat getting our fancy little car through…
Pretoria, South Africa – Day 265
Drove back from Kruger the same route we had taken to it from Jo’burg, except heading north at the last minute beore entering the mammoth city. About halfway between Jo’burg and Pretoria where the slums are, had signs up everywhere…
Sabie, South Africa – Day 258
Took a good 4 hours to drive from Jo’burg to Sabie. Landscape started very flat and dry with plenty of farms all around (and lots of nuclear power plants scattered about), but around halfway turned quite green and mountainous. Passed…
Johannesburg, South Africa – Day 258
Josie… in the house!! (that one’s for you, Alissa and Jamie 🙂 Pulled into Johannesburg just after noon (after yet another 6am bus journey, this one out of Gabarone, Botswana) to the biggest skyline we’ve seen since the last time…
Francistown, Botswana – Day 250
Was around 5 hours from Kasane to Francistown; asked the guy beside me how the road was before leaving, he told me there’s an hour of shit roads in the middle of the trip… turns out my definition of a…
Chobe Park, Botswana – Day 248
Caught a lift with the Danish/South African couple (named Anne-Sophie and Jonathon in case I didn’t mention it before), crammed in the back of their 2-seater Land Rover, to the border then the remaining 10kms or so to Kasane. The…