Wednesday 21 June 2023

Karoo to Kalahari

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Knysna harbor, a must visit on the Garden route

After out epic Cape to Lake overlander from Malawi to South Africa, we spent a month in George South Africa getting some much needed quiet time and working out our next move. 

Tuesday 25 April 2023

Lake2Cape - South Africa

Finally seeing Table Mountain!

In South Africa, our main target was the Cape Gannet colony in Lamberts Bay which is easily reachable from the border provided you arrive early. Lamberts Bay is a lazy fishing village but needs to deal with the notorious Western Cape weather and we arrived on a bad day - gloomy and rain! 

Saturday 15 April 2023

Lake2Cape - Namibia

Deadvlei - one of Namibia's top attractions

While we had the opportunity to check out Namibia during our time in Botswana, we never got down to it and regretted not getting to Etosha at the very least. With cyclone Freddy bearing down on Zambia and Botswana, Namibia remained the only dry option at this point and we finally entered Namibia through the Caprivi. 

Thursday 16 March 2023

Lake2Cape - Botswana


Senyati waterhole in Botswana

The original plan was to cross to Namibia through Zambia via Katima Malimo but the intel we were picking up was the road on the Zambian side was a disaster. So we only crossed in to Botswana to cross in to Namibia through the Ngoma border which is a well maintained tarmac road. 

Thursday 9 March 2023

Lake2Cape - Zambia

Vic Falls from the air - The Zambia/Zimbabwe border

Due to the effects of cyclone Freddy which has already dumped rain on Zambia and on its way back after gathering strength off the coast, the Zambian leg saw us bypassing South Luangwa and Lower Zambezi, both of which were flooded, and heading straight to Livingstone to check out Victoria Falls. 

Wednesday 1 March 2023

Lake2Cape - Malawi

The official start of our trip - Lake Malawi

Our final day in Blantyre was here with the cleaners cleaning out the house as we left for Lilongwe to get the car fridge fitted out at Northside Motors. Fridge fitted and we headed off to Salima so our official start point would be at the Lake. 

Tuesday 28 February 2023

Lake2Cape - Our planning... or lack of it... for a trip of a lifetime

Check out the Polarsteps daily entry for a log of our 'Lake2Cape' trip

Overlanding 60 days over five Countries

This was an adventure of a lifetime that all overlanders dream of, a long trip over a month or more. Not many of us get this opportunity due to work and family commitments or simply don't have the gear to last much more than a long weekend of camping. 

Sunday 26 February 2023

Malawi - the warm heart of Africa

The Lake of Stars

Throughout our travels in Southern and East Africa, Malawi had never been on our radar. What little we knew about the country was about it being the home of Lake Malawi (known as the Lake of Stars). 

Saturday 17 September 2022

South Luangwa NP, Zambia - Day 7

Elephant family at the hide 

We didn’t need to get up at 5am to do a game drive, but habits die hard and we were up not long after that to catch the sunrise.  Our plan was only to get across the border, not all the way home to Blantyre so were weren’t in a hurry to get going.

Friday 16 September 2022

South Luangwa NP, Zambia - Day 6

The magnificent African crowned eagle

Our last day in South Luangwa and as usual we were up and at the gate just before 6am.  Nothing of significance wandered into our path and soon we were headed to the Mfuwe lodge area where surprise, surprise the lions hadn’t moved more than 20 meters from where we’d seen those full lionesses the previous evening.  Except that the males and the lionesses that we’d seen the previous day had joined up with the 2 females and now the pride was 8 strong.