Border:we came from South Africa (Komatipoort) and left to Malawi (Mwanza). Both borders were easy. Visa:The visa was 6,252.- Metical for one month (88 Euros) – not the cheapest country. We had a hotel booking for Maputo, which we needed at the border. We had no print out, but the officer took our laptop and …
When we left the coast in Inhassoro, we knew that the road would get much worse from now on. The N1, the main road going up from Maputo was quite good so far, with just few potholes. Already after Inhassoro, we had more potholes, then we reached the bridge over the Save River and not …
There is nothing more beautiful or more spectacular as the coast of Mozambique. Endless clean beaches with palm trees, sand dunes, crystal clear water and nobody around! Driving north from Maputo we did a couple of stops, and every camp we visited was fantastic. End of November / beginning of December seems to be a …
Border:The borders of SA were easy, as there is a custom union with Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho & Eswatini, you only stamp your CDP when entering this union or leaving it. Visa:SA is very strict with 3 month Visa once in 12 months. Nevertheless, when we reentered from Eswatini and asked us to extend our Visa …
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 …
