Back to Africa. Self Drive Safari.

Well, we are almost ready for our next big adventure. Back to Africa courtesy of Worldwide Motorhoming Holidays from the Camping and Caravanning Club. All booked up by the lovely Tracy and we are now nearly ready to go. Slightly anxious but hugely excited at the same time. I just hope my map reading skills and the Satnag with Tracks for Africa are up to the challenge!

This time we have decided on a 4 x 4 with a roof tent. Although actually, we will have two! Could be handy. We could have gone for a proper motorhome but decided we would quite enjoy a change and hopefully with nice weather, enjoy a different style of camping.

Fun DC 4 X 4 Here's the Beast, our home for a few weeks! Lets hope we make friends with him quickly?

 We will pick up the vehicle from Johannesburg and finish at Cape Town, with two nights in  The Derwent House Boutique Hotel. A total of 35 nights away.

 All the camp sites have been booked and we will be wending our way from Jo'Burg up through the Kruger for two days, with a slight detour to see The Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe for a day trip. We will then breeze through Botswana and travel via the Caprivi Strip into Namibia and another two days in Etosha Park. A few weeks in Namibia, bumping along the gravel roads, will see us back down through South Africa to Cape Town.

Cases are all packed. We have managed to get it down to one medium sized case weighing just around 21kg, a carry on each and two small bags, one each. I hope we have enough clothes, I have packed the travel wash! If needs must we could always go shopping.

We are taking two cameras, one each, just in case. A dash cam, satnav  and hand held Garmin and my small HP laptop. Hopefully we will find some Wifi and we may even be able to post a bit of a blog update. We will take our phones but intend to get local Sims for our emergency South African phone which we picked up on our last visit. I have packed a fairly comprehensive first aid kit ( never take anything you don't know how to use!) prescription pills and malarone tabs for the malaria belt. We intend to get the Deet spray "Tabard" when we get to Africa, it's loads cheaper there and very effective! Toiletries, shampoo and other sundries all packed, had problems finding decent shampoo last time.

I have also packed a motley selection of African maps, which we collected on our last trip, a Rough Guide to Africa and  a Bradt Guide to Namibia. For money, we are taking South African Rand ( which can also be used in Namibia) Pula ( for Botswana, left over from our last trip) plus a few US Dollars, along with a trusty Halifax Clarity Card and a FairFX Pre Pay card for backup. 

Our first stop on arrival will be a supermarket for supplies and a camping shop for an electric lead and a proper coffee pot. 

First stop Bobo Campers then on to Pretoria to our first destination  
Monateng Caravan Lodge.

As a little preview here is our webcam of our last trip on African roads. I suspect our paths will be crossing some of these roads again very soon.

African Roads




BRING ON THE SUNSHINE.