After picking Monty up from the airport, we spent the night at Dana B Savanna Camp south of Harare, which was a great place with some game around, a campfire at night and beautiful ablutions. We started our tour through Zimbabwe in the direction of the Eastern Highlands. On the way, we stopped at Diana’s …
We had a couple of days until our son would arrive in Harare, therefore we did a little tour around town to visit some rock art and a botanical garden, before we had to be back to the city. Our first destination was the Ngomakurira Rock Art, which lies in an amazing area of granite …
We entered Zimbabwe at the Kariba Dam and had a short and easy border procedure (abt. 2 hours). If the customs guy wouldn’t have been on lunch break, it would have been even better 😉 The dam was constructed between 1955 and 1959 by the Government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, a ‘federal colony’ …
Yes! It’s true! We are already travelling for 5 years with our camper. During that time, we have been to 48 countries, 9 of them in Africa, the rest in Europe including Turkey, Georgia and Armenia. Our camper has now 170,000 km on its speedo, without any technical problem.Many people ask us, which was the …
We had heard a lot of praises of South Luangwa NP in the east of Zambia, and as we were coming from this side, we were happy we had enough time to explore the park. With the Wildlife Camp, we had found the perfect spot just outside the park but directly at the river with …
After a year travelling in Africa, we have to sum up very positive. 35 thousand kilometres on harsh roads, we did not face any accident or major technical problem, not even one puncture. But we saw a lot of accidents, critical situations on the roads and experienced a lot of unusual moments! Have a look …
Close to the border to Zambia lies the Kasungu NP, the second largest park in Malawi. We had heard, that poaching is a big problem here and that wildlife is scarce, but we decided to visit this park anyway. The road into the park until the lodge and administrative centre was good, further on, they …
From Mzuzu leads a good road south, which changed, when we took a turn-off to Embangweni, where a gravel road led through the bush. The last bit was really bad, a kind of shortcut our navigation had found appropriate. At the beginning it looked fine, but then it got worse and worse, with finally a …
Via IOverlander, we had found a bakery, which makes German style bread and much more. We had contacted Christian and ordered bread, croissants and bretzel, which we picked up at the Padre Pio Mission in Lusangazi, south of Mzuzu. It was a pleasure to talk to Christian, an German who had many fascinating jobs in …
We reached Malawi from the North, driving south along Lake Malawi, the most southern lake of the Rift Valley. It is also the third largest and second deepest lake in Africa. Lake Malawi is home to more species of fish than any other lake in the world, including at least 700 species of cichlids. We stopped at different campsites …
