An epic 3 month overland adventure travelling through Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Tanzania. Sixteen National Parks & more than 13’000 miles.
The best value for money for an overlander going on safari… Camping and park access fees vary hugely between different countries. Does paying more give you a better experience? At the top end of the price spectrum is a self-drive visit to the Ngorongoro Crater in Northern Tanzania...
Day 76 – Peponi Beach Resort The day was spent working on emails & relaxing at Peponi Beach resort. The kids loved the pool. The owner of the Capricorn Cottages next door stopped for a chat with us, and invited us for food and drinks with her husband and some other ex-pats who...
Day 71 – Marangu Iddy took us for a walk to a nearby waterfall, we visited Mama Salma in the afternoon & popped into Moshi for tea and pick up a Tanzanite bracelet. Mama Salma’s place Day 72 – Leaving Marangu We left Marangu, both Suma and me feeling quite ill from...
Day 65 – Tarangire National Park The next morning we woke early to leave at 9am for a full-day game drive. Due to the dust being kicked up by road improvements on the NP access road, our driver took us on a diversion through Maasai villages: they now live in permanent settlements...
Day 58 – A night in Bagamoyo We left Morogoro to start our month-long journey around Northern Tanzania, looking forward to seeing beaches, mountains and the world-famous national parks. We headed towards Bagamoyo as there were meant to be nice beaches there. We did a day trip to the...
Day 50 & 51 – a messy night in Dar I headed to Dar Es Salaam on the friday night, using the new high speed train. It is awesome. 2 hours of relaxing in comfort, versus the 5 or 6 hour crazy drive with endless police traffic stops, speed limits and slow trucks. The time went...
Days 43-49 We left our friends at Lake Shore Lodge after a couple of very relaxing days, and began our journey to Morogoro. Suma needed to fly out of Dar on 17th July to head back to the UK to fetch our 2 kids, returning on 20th July. A bit of a hectic turnaround but circumstances were as...
Day 36 – North Luangwa shortcut In order to avoid the 3 day boring tar road via Lusaka, we had 3 options to get to Tanzania: 1. The hard but short way: From SL there is the notorious ‘05’ road which leads directly up to the Great North Road. It has a tricky river crossing at the...
Day 29 – Wedding anniversary We tried (and failed) to meet Suma’s brother Gwmaka. He was just over the border in Zimbabwe. The visa costs for us to cross over into Zimbabwe for 2 hours were too high. We then had a long drive ahead of us as we wanted to get as close as possible to...
Day 22 – Khwai back to Maun The lack of hot showers at Magoltho and recent fairly long stint in the bush prompted us to head down to Maun for a bit of R&R and to get some overdue chores done (work emails, car oil change and clothes washing). We would then head back up to Khwai...