From St. Lucia, we first made a boat trip on the estuary. We saw some hippos, no crocs, and few birds, maybe because it was very windy. Next, we drove into the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in direction to Cape Vidal. At the coast, the high sand dunes are covered with coastal forest, behind them lies …
We had bought a Wild Card for the national parks in South Africa, and beside of Kruger, this was one of the parks, which was on our list to visit. The trees and bushes were getting already green again after some dry month and the landscape was fascinating. At the beginning we didn’t see many …
Before we reached Durban, we came past Underberg (not the Kräuterlikör) where we camped for one night and went on a hike over the farm around Khotso Campsite. Our next stop was at Nottingham Road (not a road but a village) where we visited “The Bierfassl”, an Austrian restaurant. Sadly the owner was not there, …
With 3 leaking tyres, we reached Aliwel North, were we found a great garage for tyres called TyreMart, where we got immediately all of our problems solved. We even found a new rim, as it turned out, one of the tyres was leaking at the rim again. We continued our way along the border to …
Our plan for Lesotho was first to visit Semonkong and the Maletsunyane Falls, and then drive back until Roma and take a route through the middle of the country over the infamous Menoaneng Pass to the even more famous Sani Pass, which we wanted to drive down. The drive to Semonkong was all tar and …
The private VW collection called the “Volksie Museum”, is focuses on air-cooled VW’s such as original Beetles, Karmann Ghias and Kombi’s. The vehicles on display were fantastic, from fully restored Kombi’s to amazing Beetles in many colours. There were also some special treasures to be found such as an old-school ambulance with just 40,000kms on …
We came to Bloemfontein to visit Bernie (ZS4TX), a HAM radio enthusiast, but did also a tour through the city. Bloemfontein is a lovely town, which made a very clean and organised impression, but we managed to find also the city centre, which was, as usually in South African Towns, not so nice anymore. We …
When we went to Sandstone Estate to camp on the farm’s campground, we imagined some old rusty machines laying around from the description on IOverlander. What we got was better than every museum we had visited so far. Sandstone Estate has the most excellent collection of steam trains, 90 in total, 32 of them ready …
From the Royal Natal NP with its impressive Amphitheatre, we drove past a big dam to a very black town called Phuthaditjhaba for some shopping before we crossed the Golden Gate Highlands NP. Our first intention was to camp at the Golden Gate Highlands NP for a night and go for another hike. But the …
After our last hike at Monks Cowl, the weather had changed dramatically, the temperature had dropped by 20 degrees and fog, clouds and a constant drizzle made us spend a day in our car. When we left the next morning, we visited some food stalls were we bought cheese, bread and many other treats, before …
