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. It is astronomical. In fact all national parks in Tanzania are expensive to...
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 very chilly Namibian morning, then spent 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...
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, Tarangire, Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro National Parks. Mount Kilimanjaro is also up in the north. As a result, the northern parks are extremely busy. It is not uncommon to see 50-plus vehicles surrounding a leopard or lion kill, which...
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...