Category: Countries
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Camping Wild, Mudumu Park & Hippo Units
It is a small compound. In the mid-afternoon, teak trees cast cooling shade on the sleepy inhabitants lounging on the couches and mattresses spread in front of the administration bungalows. We drive up to the most official looking group of shade seekers and chat to a pleasant but bleary eyed man with a beard
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New Countries, Egrets & Flooded Rivers
We see obvious tyre tracks in the sand and so decide to test the first bridge. The planks plink and plonk but reassuringly there’s no snapping sound nor tearing of metal beneath. The local villagers washing clothes, swimming and fishing nearby don’t even look up at the sight of us so we decide all is…
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Tsodilo Hills, Ancient Rock Paintings & Elephants
We begin by driving to the base of the Female Hill. The rock paintings are exceptional and we can’t believe how well preserved they are. Tens of thousands of years and brush strokes still remain. A re-evaluation of time is indeed required when travelling in Africa
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Okavango Delta, Fishing & Tiger Snakes
Healthy herds of subsistence cattle grind their teeth watched by the ever present herd person. This soon gives way to open lands broken by islands of forest. Secretary birds saunter through the grasses on the hunt for reptiles. The marshes appear and banks of papyrus reeds double the height of a person phalanx our route…
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Maun, Trax & Mud-Spatterings
We are stuck in that ten metre long puddle for what feels like hours. I am tired and very grumpy. The vehicle is at a vertical angle of about fifteen degrees with the rear part lower than the front. The exhaust pipe is submerged in the water spluttering and bubbling away
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Backpackers, Bush Babies & The Nata River
The rain’s intensity reduces in the late afternoon enough for Kirsty to head off to the communal kitchen to begin the evening meal. I stay well away as she has a pressure cooker in one hand, a determined look on her face and I know that the kitchen hot plate is on a gas stove
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Storms, Dry River Beds & The Fifth Missing Condiment
After about twenty minutes of driving through the ubiquitous Botswana scrub land of mopani and acacia we arrive at our camp for the night
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Zim to Bots & Border Crossings
The plan is, from Zimbabwe, to traverse Botswana taking in some of the sights along the way but to specifically aim for the adventures and landscapes of Namibia on the distant west coast of Southern Africa
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Country Cottages, Durdle Door & Other Dorset Delights
With our friendly, intrepid, adventurist couple (Will & Eri: soon to be married), hazukashiiiii, we set off into the wilds of Dorset.
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Beautiful Vinales, Cigars & Rooster Cacaphonies
Then I realized that the very off-key rooster just outside our window and the cacophony of his buddies, in some strange rooster harmony across the whole valley, may have had something to do with John’s strange dinner planning.
The Colour of Travel 