by Pieter Booyens | Mar 17, 2021 | Blog
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...
by Pieter Booyens | Aug 26, 2020 | Trip Reports
When camping restrictions lifted in the beginning of August 2020 (they were implemented due to Covid-19) we started looking for a place to camp during the long weekend of 7 – 10 August. Dinokeng Game Reserve is situated in our province (and we were only allowed to...
by Pieter Booyens | Apr 13, 2020 | Blog
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by Pieter Booyens | Feb 24, 2020 | Trip Reports
Introduction It has almost become the norm that we will do a long trip during the December/January holiday season. Due to personal circumstances we were unable to plan and do a long trip this year. As December was creeping closer the craving for a trip just became...
by Pieter Booyens | Dec 9, 2019 | Blog
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...
by Pieter Booyens | Apr 12, 2019 | Blog
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...
by Pieter Booyens | Mar 29, 2019 | Trip Reports
Where to find Kyleu Bush Camp Kyleu Bush Camp is situated in the Dinokeng big 5 game reserve just north of Pretoria, Gauteng, to be exact, 43km from the Zambezi offramp on the N1. Kyleu Bush Camp was established by Sherri and Devon Symon and is one of only a...
by Pieter Booyens | Mar 28, 2019 | Trip Reports
This is the second and last part of our Namibia 2018 trip report. We left off in part one where we arrived on day 12 at Mile 4 Caravan Park in Swakopmund Namibia. It is now day 13 and we are still in Swakopmund. Day 13 – Thursday, 27 December 2018 – Mile...
by Pieter Booyens | Feb 20, 2019 | Trip Reports
Introduction Unable to take enough time off during the year, December/January is normally the period that we can plan for longer trips. This year our plan was to visit the central parts of Namibia. Out route would include places such as Windhoek, Brandberg,...
by Pieter Booyens | Jan 6, 2019 | Blog
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...
by Pieter Booyens | Nov 1, 2018 | Blog
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 made to our own...
by Pieter Booyens | Oct 29, 2018 | Blog
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...
by Pieter Booyens | Jul 10, 2018 | Blog
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...
by Pieter Booyens | May 3, 2018 | Blog
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...
by Pieter Booyens | Feb 28, 2018 | Trip Reports
Planning and trip preparations The planning and preparations for this trip was the easiest ever. With the experience gained over the years of traveling it was very easy for us to decide on a route, make the required bookings and off we go. Border posts no longer...
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