1st October 2009 We departed from Cheetah Park and headed to the Matterhorn of Namibia - Spitzkoppe. It is a well known as an ancient San sacred sight. The Spitzkoppe, is a group of bald granite peaks or bornhardts located between Usakos and Swakopmund in the Namib desert of Namibia. The granite is more than 700 million years old and the highest outcrop rises about 1784 metres above sea level. We camped at the base of one of the outcrops under the African sta...

30th September 2009 We leave Etosha with another game drive and head towards Cheetah Park, a private farm dedicated to conserving Namibia's Cheetah population. We were able to walk around with the Cheetahs, photograph them and pat them. We then went on a game drive and watched the feeding of the wild cheetahs in the park. We were in a trailer being towed by a ute full of raw meat. Despite being the fastest animal on earth, cheetahs are a fragile creature, ...

27th September 2009 Maun to Rundu We follow the Kavango River and enter Northern Namibia. We stop at Rundu for supplies before heading to our campsite on the banks of the Kavango River. 28th September 2009 Rundu to Etosha National Park From Rundu, we head towards Etosha National Park. Covering 20,000 km2, Etosha is Namibia's premier nature reserve. Situated around the Etosha Pan with a wide variety of animal and bird life, the extensive network of gravel r...

23rd September 2009 Today we travelled in a south westerly direction to the southern reaches of the Okavango Delta and our destination, Maun. It is from here that we set off to explore the Okavango Delta. The Delta is a huge expanse of water, which has travelled from the Angolan highlands, spreading out to form the largest inland delta in the world. Studded swith exotic islands, the Delta is renowned for its incredible variety of bird life and animals and is ...

21st September 2009 After breakfast we crossed the border into Botswana and headed to Kasane where we set up camp on the banks of the Chobe River. Immigration only took about 5 minutes. We had to walk through a foot and mouth dip and the truck drove through a dip also. Tried to cash some money in Kasane (the teller was just walking around, made himself a coffee, drank it, then served me). The Chobe River forms a border between Botswana, Namibia and Zambia....