The trailer top tent
During December 2009/January 2010 we did a trip through Botswana and the Caprivi with friends. Us with the trailer and dome tent and our friends with their trailer and a trailer top tent. As soon as we arrived home it was back to the drawing board, the trailer top...
The Elephant Charge – Ten years of thunder
The Elephant Charge celebrates ten years of 4x4 adrenalin fueled adventure for wildlife conservation in Zambia. In 2008 a group of four friends in Zambia ventured out into the bush, built a course of ten check points, printed a map, set up a tent with a white board...
Camping with a big tent
After two or three camping trips with our small tent we realised that we needed to find a better solution. What we needed is a solution that would offer: The same flexibility that the small tent offered, but would have more space to utilize against the elements. We...
Camping with a small tent
After selling our Sprite Sunway caravan early in 2005 we reverted to camping with a tent. We had a small 2.5mx2.5m canvas bow tent stored in the garage, and decided to give it a try. We did however need a few extra things. The fully equipped kitchen of the caravan...
Camping – How did we start
We started camping with a large “Luxury” caravan, a double axle Sprite Sunway with two doors. A caravan of this size and weight required a powerful towing vehicle and for this we used a Land Rover Discovery with a V8 engine. The caravan was equipped with almost...
Camping, and how it evolved for us
I want to share some of our camping experiences over the years with you focusing on how we started camping and how it evolved from our first camping trip up until how we do it now.
Anthrax kills 109 hippos in Bwabwata
We recently read the following article in the Namibian news: News – National | 2017-10-09 Page no: 1. (by Lugeretzia Kooper) About 109 hippos have been killed in a suspected anthrax outbreak in western Bwabwata National Park in a week. Parks deputy director of...
Namibia and the Richtersveld – December 2017
Our December 2017 trip has been finalised. We will be visiting the Fish River Canyon, Lüderitz and Kolmanskop in Namibia. From there our route will take us via Vioolsdrift to the Richtersveld. Leaving the Richtersveld will take us through the Richtersveld World...
Malawi – December 2016
Planning and preparations for the trip We just could not get Malawi out of our minds since our previous trip – December 2015. It was not long being back home that we made the decision to go back to Malawi in December 2016. During the previous trip we wanted to see as...
Oupa se Plaas – Modimolle, Limpopo
We spent the long weekend of the 16th – 18th of June 2017 bush camping on “Oupa se Plaas”. Oupa se Plaas is situated on the Grootfontein road which turn off from the Modimolle (Nylstroom) Mookgopong (Naboomspruit) road, also known as the R101. The Grootfontein road...
Maiden Botswana Trip (Part 4)
Part Four – The Journey Back South This trip report is posted with recognition to the author, Frans Nieman, who granted us the permission to use his trip report on our page. Frans wrote …………. Time to move on. We left Senyati with heavy...
Maiden Botswana Trip (Part 3)
Part One – Spending time in the North This trip report is posted with recognition to the author, Frans Nieman, who granted us the permission to use his trip report on our page. Frans wrote …………. No leopard sighting richer, at about 10:30...
Maiden Botswana Trip (Part 2)
Part Two – Going up North Part two of this trip report is posted with recognition to the author, Frans Nieman, who granted us the permission to use his trip report on our page. Frans wrote …………. When pulling in at the Spar in Maun, after...
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