by Pieter Booyens | Sep 16, 2017 | Blog
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...
by Pieter Booyens | Mar 3, 2017 | Blog
We have been in the CKGR numerous occasions and have subsequently received a number of requests regarding our itinerary. We will finalise our detailed trip report (now long overdue) and post it to our website soonest. However, please find below information to answer...
by Pieter Booyens | Jan 6, 2017 | Blog
We woke up later than normal and only got onto the road at 10:00. The road from Nata to Francistown was in a terrible state – and it took much longer than the suggested GPS time. Also … when you drive over the speed limit you get fined – again. This time round, Pieter...
by Pieter Booyens | Jan 5, 2017 | Blog
Sad to leave Zambia, but also excited to know that we had found a camp site in Livingstone that really delivers. We will be using The Bushfront Lodge again in December 2017 when we plan to visit Bangweulu Wetlands and North Luanda. Because we were not staying over at...
by Pieter Booyens | Jan 4, 2017 | Blog
Today was going to be a tough day. 470km to Livingstone. Our GPS indicated that this would take us approximately 6 hours. Our GPS does not keep track of donkeys, bicycles and goats though … *Giggle* We got an early start at Eureka Camp and started our journey to...
by Pieter Booyens | Jan 4, 2017 | Blog
We got up early as driving to Lusaka was a long stretch – but apart from this, the road conditions and amount of trucks we encountered on our way made for a pretty long trip. We woke up to a very cloudy and rainy Bridge Camp. It was drizzling when we started to get...
by Pieter Booyens | Jan 2, 2017 | Blog
Our journey from Chipata was pretty uneventful and it did not take us that long until we reached Bridge Camp. The Luanga River had since had significant rain, and the level of the river had risen since we camped there in the beginning of our journey. The humidity had...
by Pieter Booyens | Jan 1, 2017 | Blog
We got up fairly early the next morning at Nkhotakota Pottery, packed and headed towards Lilongwe. Pieter wanted to make contact with an old colleague of he’s, and we also wanted to get through the border post in time before the New Year celebrations started in...
by Pieter Booyens | Dec 31, 2016 | Blog
On our way out, we headed back to see what the new development that our neighbours were at was like at Sunga Moyo. Fred and he’s German wife recently bought the lodge and renamed it Sunga Moyo. Where Makuzi mostly caters for lodge facilities, Fred is more into...
by Pieter Booyens | Dec 28, 2016 | Blog
We got up very early on Saturday morning to make sure we got some last sunrise pictures for our collection. We set up the “Go Pro” and waited for the sun to rise. We could hear the hippos in the water, but because of dense mist, we could not really see them. At some...
by Pieter Booyens | Dec 24, 2016 | Blog
Funny enough how excitement can make you forget about being tired and run down. THIS was the day that we would be crossing over to Malawi. We packed up camp early and set off to Spar to buy some last minute goodies. Again, our Carnet de Passage saved the day. We...
by Pieter Booyens | Dec 21, 2016 | Blog
With road deviations and road works between Bridge Camp and Chipata the trip took us almost two hours longer than anticipated, but we arrived safely at Mama Rula’s, our stopover for the night. By now we were feeling tired and run down from setting up camp every day....
by Pieter Booyens | Dec 20, 2016 | Blog
We departed Camp Eureka early morning, our destination Bridge Camp at the Luanga River more or less halfway to Chipata. Riaan and family were still busy packing as they wanted to push through to Chipata. We said our goodbyes hoping to see them again at Makuzi beach...
by Pieter Booyens | Dec 19, 2016 | Blog
We got up early and made our way to Lusaka where we camped at Camp Eureka on the outskirts of Lusaka. This was an uneventful day, but a very long drive for us. The road was in a good condition but with lots of 50kph speed limits. You drive through villages alongside...
by Pieter Booyens | Dec 18, 2016 | Blog
This was one of the many days that we really looked forward to on the trip. We would cross the Zambezi River with the Kazungula Ferry into Zambia. We got up early, packed up camp and drove to the border. At Martins drift border post in Botswana, Pieter spoke...
by Pieter Booyens | Dec 17, 2016 | Blog
We had to leave early for Kasane as we had booked for a sunset cruise on the Chobe River through Kubu Lodge for late afternoon. We stayed over at the Kubu Lodge camping site in Kasane. The lodge is on the banks of the Chobe River. Traveling to Kasane is always...
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