A self-drive safari in Etosha National Park
After leaving Spitzkoppe, Maggie and the team continued on the journey north. Our next stop was one of Namibia’s most popular tourist attractions: Etosha National...
Border Crossings: South Africa to Swaziland (and back)
Some call Swaziland ‘hassle-free Africa’, and that’s exactly what we experienced crossing the border into the country from South Africa. Minimal paperwork and no...
Angola – Border Crossing into Nambia
Day 5
The road to Ondijva was again a nice drive and we made good progress throughout the day. One thing I noticed about school...
Ghana – Border Crossing from the Ivory Coast
Ghana Border
After getting through the Ivory coast border in a relatively short time (in fact if we didn’t stop and ask we could have...
Border Crossing: South Africa to Lesotho (and back)
Like many overland border crossings in Southern Africa, crossing from South Africa to Lesotho and back again was no problem at all. Minimal hassle, and...
Ferry Crossing (Brazzaville to Kinshasa)
Ferry Crossing (Brazzaville to Kinshasa) – Le Corrupt
Trying to cross into the next country DRC Congo we had heard that ferry crossings from Brazzaville to...
Things to do in Gaborone, Botswana
Gaborone – Botswana’s sleepy capital city of only 200,000 residents – may not be high on everyone’s travel bucket list. But ‘Gabs’, as it’s affectionately...
Botswana – Bana ba Metsi
The school teaches kids practical skills and they all participate in one form or another in either building part of the school, teaching them...
The Beautiful Kakamega Forest Nature Reserve – Kenya
is Kenya’s only tropical rain forest and the reserve is 238 square kilometers, a little less than half of which currently as indigenous. The...
South Africa – Pretoria
It is with great pleasure that I am able to write this post, to get across the continent and achieve my intended goal of...