The barren desert landscape of Namibia slowly changed to green vineyards and mountain passes as we travelled deeper into South Africa. At Clanwilliam we turned off the tar onto a horribly corrugated road (I thought we done with this sort of thing) and headed for the beautiful Cederberg Wilderness Area where we took a leisurely stroll up to a nearby waterfall. The waterfall was beautiful, and refreshingly ice cold, so we spent a lovely few hours swimming, sunbathi...

Our trip seems to be following a biblical theme. We've passed wars in the Middle East, famine in east Africa and now we have pestilence. Southern Namibia doesn't have much big game but it more than makes up for it with small creatures in big quantities. From Ameib our next stop was the Namib Desert. After a wonderful few days exploring the dune fields at Homeb we camped the night at Mirabib, a very remote un-staffed campsite in the shadow of a huge granite o...

Exploring Namibia was the original idea for the trip, and we have travelled through Africa a little quicker than we would have liked in order to allow ourselves time to fully explore the country that we have heard so much about. So far Namibia has lived up to our high expectations, delivering some spectacular views, amazing wildlife, varied landscapes and with a good dose of adventure thrown in for good measure. One thing we learnt very quickly though was that 5 ...

Moremi National Park in the Okavango Delta is said to be amongst the best in Africa for seeing big predators, so we were very excited to be driving in to the park with a 4 day permit in our hands. Moremi is also known for very sandy tracks which become impassable in the wet season due to flooding. No problem there as we were well into the dry season - or so we thought. As luck would have it, the delta is experiencing a 20 year high in water levels, so even though...

We've met some wonderful characters throughout the trip and many have some great stories to tell - stories of revolutions, of changing times and of difficult histories, however nothing compares to those we have heard here in Zimbabwe. Oddly when people talk of the most difficult time here, of the lack of currency, fuel and food they do so with an almost reminiscent smile on their face, and the phrase "I don't know how we got through it, but we did" has been echoe...