Stories from our overland travels in Africa – newest first
January 5th – 8th, 2022 Here we go, into the Serengeti. Everyone has heard of it and probably seen television documentaries about it. To be able to drive our own vehicle into this unique place is really special and something we were really looking forward to, though we’d done this once before in 2018. The…
Nothing went as planned, but everything was fine December 23rd, 2021 – January 5th, 2022 We had a wonderful, if non traditional, Christmas dinner at Capricorn of curry and chapatis. There also was a flurry of logistics and planning to sort out while at Peponi. Our friends that planned to join us in Arusha had…
The Southern Route to the Coast Dec 16th – 22nd, 2021 The next milestone in our plan was to visit the coastal ruins at Kilwa, on the coast. But how to get there? From Kisolanza it is roughly equidistant to travel the Tan-Zam highway towards Dar or to take the coast. To go south would…
A self drive report December 11th – 16th, 2021 Kisolanza was a campsite that was easy to be in, but we left anyway, knowing that the next few nights would be much more wild and interesting, but also without the well thought out amenities that we’d had the last two nights. A small side story….
