A disturbed night. A Defender from Zimbabwe pulled into the camp at around 9pm and it took them an age to set up camp and settle for the night. There were two other families with very young children, one of which woke around 2.30am and the parents paid it no…
On the road by 9.30, we had about 130 kms to travel to the Namibia/Botswana border at Ngoma. Apart from a short 6km stretch, it was all tar seal. The villages en route are all very well kept. Mainly mud brick with immaculate thatched roofs, but some of the larger…
First up, Happy Birthday Wendy. Breakfast in bed and gift wrapped Channel #5 from Mike? 🙂 We would have been away from the camp by 9.30am this morning, only I managed to pump water into our water tank space, instead of in the tank, so that took some cleaning out…
Okacuito River Camp As it was a lot of driving yesterday, we decided we would take it easy today, so this morning we weren’t rushing. After packing up we had a chat with our neighbours, a family group from South Africa. Last night they had said they would give us…
Today has been a driving day. Not a lot to see or visit along the way, until we hit the town of Rundu. It has been 320k’s of hard slog into a strong head wind along boring very straight sealed, road.Sealed that is till 8k’s from our present camp site.…
Tsumeb Today we were on tar sealed roads all day. Our first stop was at Tsumeb. A sizeable town. Nicely set out and maintained. Lonely Planet had given the museum a good write up, so we thought we would pay it a visit. The lady in charge was very helpful…
Not a lot of sleep last night as there was a Lion, on the campsite, in a pen!! I’m sure it was crying all night to go back to it’s mates. There is something rather sad about these “Safari” Camps. I’m perhaps repeating myself, but they all want to compete…
Rock Engravings This morning we planned to visit the rock engravings, close to Kamanjab. Oppi-Koppi Lodge controlled access to the engravings. I had to complete a form, pay $60 for each of us and get an entry key (this needed a further $100 deposit, to ensure we returned it). I…
The day started for us at around 5am. Our next door neighbours, a bus tour group, Nomad Overland Tours, were setting up for breakfast for their patrons. It was tough as I had been awake for an hour or more during the night when wifi is a little more effective.…
Wild camping. The night was uneventful in terms of hearing or being disturbed by any wildlife. As we were surrounded by elephant poo and other animal droppings, I was afraid Poki might be rocked by an elephant during the night, or we may hear roaring lions. I did wake several…