Tag: Border crossings
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The Thirty Day Moz Run
The situ has South Africans and some other nationalities on the Mozambican side gunning for the border every few weeks and then returning after picking up a Steers burger, biltong and various other necessities in SA.
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Return To Beautiful Mozambique
Tofo is still our favourite place and even though we are usually explorers, we settle down to the relaxed beach life enjoying the scuba diving and surfing on tap at this explorer’s home.
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Change of Plans & North to South
Lake Malawi is kind enough to provide another beautiful evening. The fishermen in their dugout canoes drift by creating ripples in the mirrored sunset and cattle amble home along the beach
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Into Malawi, Family & Fresh Water Diving
The sunsets over Lake Malawi on the first two evenings are incredible. Fishermen in their proud boats chug along on the often smooth waters sending ripples through the colours of sunset
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Kazungula, Bridges & Four Countries Meet
This area is where four countries meet. Up until the year 2000, it was largely uncertain due to shifting river banks and ambiguous colonial era imposed map drawing whether this area is a quad-border or not.
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Return To Botswana in the Dry Season
We barrel through the middle of Botswana which is relatively flat, scrubby and consistently so through-out the first 350 kilometers.
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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…
The Colour of Travel 