South Africa 30sep-12 Oct South Africa represented a departure from our normal travel style through Africa. We stayed in fab accommodation, ate at fancy restaurants, drank our body weight in red wine and we spent time alone and not in a group. We arrived in Stellenbosch staying at the Stumble Inn and ate at Ernie Els restaurant in the private dining room. The food, service and decor were fab. The next day we headed out on a wine tour with Brad, Michal, Alicia...

It's 6am, pitch black outside and rainy. We've just crossed the border into South Africa, 640km from Cape Town after 11days in Namibia. We could definitely have spent longer there, even if it is mainly a landscape of sand and dust! Until last night my hair and clothes were caked in a fine layer of the stuff and even our bags stashed away in the lockers had a layer of sand on them. We've left Often, our tents and the truck at our lovely final campsite- Felix Unit...

I'm sat on the grass, next to the vast swathes of sand of the Namibian desert, at the skydive centre!!!! Yes, me, who is afraid of heights and taking off in planes, has just jumped out of a little plane and skydived from 10,000ft. We're in Swakopmond which is meant to be the adventure capital of Namibia and so I decided, having never had the desire to do this before, that I would like to do a jump. I then changed my mind once the Weiss beer I'd consumed at the B...

Saturday 19th September Today we have left Maun and have crossed the border into Namibia, and will arrive at Etosha tomorrow afternoon. It's around 40 degrees, even the breeze coming into the truck with both sets of tarp windows rolled up and the beach being open is baking hot. Both Tony and I are itching like mad from the several mozzie bites we acquired in the delta. We're staying at Rainbow camp at the side of the Okavango River. We were anticipating a downm...

Chobe National Park and The Okavango Delta We arrived in Kasane at possibly the worst campsite yet; sand everywhere and looking out onto wasteland. By early afternoonm all tents were pitched encircling the kitchen area, and we headed out to the Chobe River to go on a river safari. Chobe National Park is home to the greatest concentration of elephants in Africa and we were not disappointed. There must have been hundreds, not phased by the passing boats at all, a...