Our dream and new developments
It is now more than 15 years ago that we started travelling, camping, and exploring new places. And the more we travel the more we were searching for new challenges away from city life. Apart from all the beautiful places in South-Africa our travels also took us...
Wild and Wonderfull Campsites
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Dagga Boy – 70 Series Toyota Land Cruiser
Earlier during 2019 Toyota was asking Toyota 70 series owners who has customized their vehicles for self-sustaining comfort in remote locations to contact them for the possibility to have their stories published in the Toyota Connect magazine. I responded immediately...
Quiver Tree Forest – Namibia
I am busy working through the pictures taken during our December 2018 Namibia trip to select pictures for our trip report which will be coming soon. In the process I came across the sunset pictures taken in the Quiver Tree Forest plus minus 14 kilometers north-east of...
Namibia December 2018/January 2019 trip
Namibia trip - Dec 2018/Jan 2019We are back home from our 20-day Namibian holiday. This was the first trip with the new Toyota Land Cruiser fitted with a Bushlapa Bosluis 2. More about this later. We left home on 15 December 2018 and returned on 3 January 2019. ...
Toyota Land Cruiser/Bush Lapa Bosluis Project (3)
To keep the inside neat, an easily removable cargo net was installed to keeps the matrass and bedding in place when travelling. That ensure that it can’t fall off and be in the way when you open the door. We had an aluminium box...
Toyota Land Cruiser/Bush Lapa Bosluis Project (2)
We took delivery of our Bushlapa Bosluis (Bushlapa no 1426) fitted on the back of our Toyota Land Cruiser on 2 August 2018. The first trip with our new camper was driving it back home to Pretoria all the way for Bush Lapa Caravans in the Paarl. Bushlapa did an...
Toyota Land Cruiser/Bush Lapa Bosluis Project (1)
We did not do a lot of updating on our webpage lately. One of the reasons maybe the fact that since our return from the Richterveld we sold the last of our camping equipment that we would not need anymore, leaving us with basically nothing to go camping with. That...
Our New Travel Companion
In our last Blog entry (November 2017) we told you that we have plans for changing/enhancing our camping setup. We also held you in suspense with the promise to tell you more about it on our return from the Namibia/Richtersveld tour. Well we are back, and we have made...
Fitting a rooftop tent
During 2015 we decided to do a trip to Malawi, wait for it, without the trailer. And you know what that means? That means back to the drawing board again. We needed to re-think and re-plan everything. How will we fit in everything that we got so used to and that...
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...
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 the...
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...
CENTRAL KALAHARI GAME RESERVE (CKGR) – BOTSWANA
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...
MALAWI 2016 – Day 23: Thursday 4/1/2017: Nata Lodge to Pretoria
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...
MALAWI 2016 – Day 22: Wednesday 4/1/2017: Bushfront Lodge Zambia to Nata Lodge Botswana
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...
MALAWI 2016 – Day 21: Tuesday 3/1/2017: Camp Eureka to The Bushfront Lodge Livingstone
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...
MALAWI 2016 – Day 20 – Monday 02/01/2017: Bridge Camp to Camp Eureka (Lusaka)
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...
MALAWI 2016 – Day 19: Sunday 01/01/2017: Dean’s Hill View to Bridge Camp
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...
MALAWI 2016 – Day 18: Saturday 31/12/2016: Nkhotakota Pottery to Dean’s Hill View Camp (Chipata: Zambia)
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...
MALAWI 2016 – Days 15 – 17: Wednesday 28/12/2016 – Friday 30/12/2016: Makuzi Beach Lodge to Nkhotakota Pottery
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...
MALAWI 2016 – Days 11 – 14: Saturday: 24/12/2016 – Tuesday 27 /12/2016: Kasungu National Park to Makuzi Beach
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...
MALAWI 2016 – Days 8 to 10 – Wednesday 21/12/2016 to Friday 23/12/2016: Chipata (Zambia) to Kasungu National Park (Malawi)
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...
MALAWI 2016 – Day 7 – Tuesday 20/12/2016: Bridge Camp to Chipata (Mama Rula’s)
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....
MALAWI 2016 – Day 6 – Monday 19/12/2016: Camp Eureka to Bridge Camp
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...
MALAWI 2016 – Day 5 – Sunday 18/12/2016: Livingstone to Eureka Camp (Lusaka)
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...