Hi all, (sorry for any confusion, for some unknown reason the huge great country that is Namibia is not on the list of options on this website, hence it's now under Botswana.) We have now made it into Namibia.......just. Our truck broke down yesterday on the outskirts of Etosha NP. We had to limp out of the park so we could get out of the vehicle to undertake maintenance. Finally made it to the nearest town where the alternater fell off on the garage forecourt ...

Hello again. We are currently in Botswana about to leave after having to wait for one of our number to recover from Malaria in hospital for a week. For those who have remained healthy it has been a jam packed few weeks. We have waled - literally- with lions, that was a truly amazing experience. It was at Antelope Park in Zimbabwe, where they are breeding lions to reintroduce into the wild as feline AIDS is destroying th ewild population. We also swam on a n eleph...