Day 8 After waking up early we left the nondescript NWR campsite in Khoriaxas around 9.30am for another day of driving. We were headed another 200 miles north to see the famous desert elephants in the Hoanib valley. The drive was stunning, again. It was mostly driving along flat plains surrounded by low mountains. The first area were all flat-topped mountains similar...
Day 1 We arrived in Walvis Bay after a fairly long trip: 9 1/2 hours night flight from Frankfurt to Windhoek, arriving at 8am to a bright and chilly Namibian morning, then the rest of the day transferring to Walvis Bay. Points to note: You’ll need to know the name of a hotel in Namibia to fill out the Visa form correctly on landing. We had nothing booked, and...
The purpose of this post is to cover the steps we had to take in order to get our vehicle from the UK to Namibia. There is a fair amount of paperwork and cost involved, and I will outline it all below. These steps will be very similar for shipping vehicles from anywhere in the world to Western, Eastern and Southern Africa. Quite a lot of work went into preparing the...
My cousin Hannah and her fiancee Martyn were due to get married in Malawi on 10th August 2022. Suma has family in central and southern Tanzania. It seemed that a road trip was in order, and we had 6 weeks in which to do it… Dar Es Salaam We hung out in Dar for a couple of days with Suma’s brother Jones, it was great to catch up with him again. A priority was to...
Almost everybody who comes to Tanzania for a safari goes up to the northern part of the country, home to the world-famous Serengeti and Ngorongoro National Parks. Mount Kilimanjaro is also up in the north. As a result, the northern parks can be extremely busy. It is not uncommon to see 50-plus vehicles surrounding a leopard or lion kill, which can detract somewhat...
If you have the time, driving is the best way to explore the vast and beautifully diverse country that is Tanzania. Driving in Tanzania can be both liberating and terrifying. There is no idiotic road-rage nonsense because nobody cares about road rules. There is a degree of freedom that you just don’t get in the Western world. If your vehicle will physically fit...
General info about Tanzania: Lying just south of the equator, Tanzania is located in the tropics and has a hot climate. They have 2 seasons: warm and dry, coinciding with the northern hemisphere summer. Hot and wet, roughly in the northern hemisphere winter months. The landscape is very diverse: tropical islands like Zanzibar, Pemba, and Mafia. The whole...
We opted for a budget package deal to Hurghada, arriving there for the last week of April. Our hotel was the Royal Lagoons Resort, a 5-star hotel that is not too far from a mediocre beach. The hotel is fine, the food is great, the rooms and staff are fine. I couldn’t fault the place really for the price we paid: under £400 each for 2 adults, booked through TUI. The...
Crete has much to offer outside the busy tourist resorts: there are remote beaches, rugged mountains, hidden gorges, remote villages, and ancient monuments to explore. Crete has to be the number one Greek Island for hiking. There are countless well-marked spectacular walks, from easy strolls along deserted beaches to more arduous treks up to the peaks of the high...
Day 1: Arrive and unpack We had only a 4 night break here (Jet2 holidays), staying at a slightly tired but friendly Kamari 2* hotel in Kefalos, on the far southwestern tip of the island of Kos. We arrived early evening of the first day so didn’t really do much other than have a couple of beers in the hotel bar. Day 2: Quad biking Next morning we hired a 50cc...