Chasing Sunrise: Crossing the Zambezi and admiring its power at Victoria Falls

The Zambezi is Africa’s 4th longest river. Almost 2,700km long it flows through 6 countries; Zambia, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. It spends the most amount of time in Zambia and forms the country’s border with Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. Our route was taking us from Botswana to Zambia which meant we’d be crossing … More Chasing Sunrise: Crossing the Zambezi and admiring its power at Victoria Falls

Chasing sunrise: Out of Namibia and into Botswana

We dragged ourselves away from Etosha around mid-morning and hit the road east. Our destination was Rundu at the base of Namibia’s finger. A solid 4 hour drive we’d also resolved to try and fix the major niggles with the 4WD given it wouldn’t be long until we’d be leaving Namibia. Getting low beam lights … More Chasing sunrise: Out of Namibia and into Botswana

Chasing sunrise: Part 1 Namibia – Visiting Sossusvlei

Our 2 hour fight from Cape Town to Windhoek, Namibia landed early. Immigration was also a speedy affair. We were pleased as it was late. We’d booked a guest house the day before and through them organised a taxi transfer. It was expensive but there are a lot of dodgy taxis in Windhoek so it’s … More Chasing sunrise: Part 1 Namibia – Visiting Sossusvlei

Veloma Madagascar

It was 5:30pm when we got back to Antsirabe for the final time. The cheap hotel we’d stayed at previously had a room again. Patrick offered to take us to a restaurant since we’d had lunch on the go. He told us he can’t cook and when we asked about his wife he said she … More Veloma Madagascar