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 …
On the way from Pretoria to Mozambique, we stopped first at Witbank, now Emalahleni (Boat & Caravan Club at the dam), then near the Sudwala caves which we visited the next morning (very nice Mankele Campsite). After our visit to the caves, we passed White River, where we found a car museum and finally we …
As we drastically had lost power and torque over the last two month, we checked the turbo and the air filter system frequently. We found two urgent problems: first a broken intake gasket and second critical development of damage and oiling to the impeller. We decided to replace the turbo to avoid further critical damage. …
On our way to Pretoria we made a couple of stops to give our engine a brake. One was at Nan Hua Temple, the second biggest Buddhist temple in the world! It was just outside of Pretoria and a big complex with 3 shrines with different Buddha statues. The 3 brown Buddhas in the main …
Chrissiesmeer is a small remote village in the lake district, an endless flat grassland with little lakes at around 1600 metres asl with Chrissiesmeer, the largest natural lake in all of South Africa. We camped at a place called Genesaret, where we parked our car at a beautiful lawn directly at the lake shore. There …
The weather was cold and rainy, and we had to wait at Bushbaby Lodge for a very grey and wet day to pass. The next morning it wasn’t much better but we had enough of being stuck and continued our way to Mkhuze NP. The park was beautiful with new bird hides, overlooking mostly smaller …
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 …
