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I travelled from Cape Town to the Kgaligadi Transfrontier Park and back to Cape Town over 23 days and 4,700 kilometres in May 2025. I was travelling with my cousin, Denise Skeffington, for most of the time, and we were joined for two weeks by another of our cousins, Nick Stodel. We were travelling in my 1999 Land Cruiser 105. Nick travelled with us in his eighteen-month-old Land Rover Defender. We each had our own ground tent. When I quote prices, I use the original currency. At the beginning of my trip the exchange rates to the GB Pound were: South African Rand 23.27 and Botswana Pula 18.4. I have used these rates throughout this report, irrespective if rates changed or the actual conversion rates differed. Day 1 – Saturday 3rd May 2025 – Cape Town to Varswater Beach in the Namaqua National Park – 477 kms Both Denise and…

In September and October 2024, we travelled 4,200 kms in twenty days from Victoria Falls, through Chobe, Moremi, Kgaligadi, Fish River Canyon and Richtersveld to Cape Town. I was travelling with my cousins, Karen and Michelle Stodel from Cape Town and my nephew, Gordon Lycett from Brisbane, Australia.…

In August 2024 we travelled 3,700kms in twelve days from Cape Town to Maun via Khaudum National Park in Namibia. I was travelling with our friend, Annie, a Canadian who lives in Türkiye and who travelled in 1979 with us and seventeen others in a truck from London…

In March 2024 I travelled 3,500 kms in ten days, mainly in Namibia. I was travelling with my wife, Tibby, our daughter, Megan, and her partner, Tom Chisholm. Our route took us from Cape Town through the Namaqua and Richtersveld National Parks in South Africa and then in…

In October and November 2022, I travelled 6,500 kms through Botswana and Namibia in 35 days. We started in Livingstone on 22nd October, travelled through Chobe Riverside, Chobe Savuti, Moremi and the Kgaligadi in Botswana and South Africa, then went to Sossusvlei and to Conception Bay in the…

In April 2022, I travelled 5,000 kms through Malawi in 24 days. I started my trip in Livingstone in Zambia, drove two days to Malawi, did a big loop through the country, and then returned the vehicle to Livingstone.

In September and October 2021, I travelled 7,000 kms through Tanzania and Zambia in 40 days. I started my trip in Arusha in Tanzania, headed down the eastern side of Tanzania as far as Nyerere National Park and then travelled west across the width of the country to Lake Tanganyika.

In September 2019 I drove from Livingstone in Zambia, circumnavigated the Kariba Dam, went through Hwange National Park into Botswana, had two days in the Tuli Block, one day in Khutse National Park and then drove to Cape Town.

In April and May 2019, I drove from Cape Town to Rundu in Namibia, where I joined a group led by Live the Journey for a two-week road trip in Angola.

In September and October 2017 my wife, Tibby, and I did a forty-four-day 6,500 km trip from Cape Town, through Namibia and back to Cape Town.

Tibby and I travelled up the Wild Coast of South Africa for ten days from 11th October 2010. The Wild Coast stretches for about 600kms from just north of East London to just south of Port Edward on the east coast next to the Indian Ocean.