8. Windhoek, Namibia - 3 August to 13 August 2009 We left Koha Guest Farm near Mariental on Thursday 6 August for Windhoek, capital of Namibia, and drove across the Tropic of Capricorn. We have fair weather camping now. We spent 2 nights at Hotel Pension Uhland near the centre of Windhoek. Managed to get the vehicle serviced with the Toyota dealership, and especially enjoyed a meal at a Cameroon restaurant called La Marmite, which served dishes from all over Afr...

7. Kalaghadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa - 28 July to 3 August 2009 On Tuesday 28 July left Spitskop Nature Reserve and headed for the Kalaghadi Transfrontier Park. We were surprised to find it was a bitumen road all the way to the entrance gate, where we had to have our passports stamped out of South Africa because we would eventually exit the park into Namibia. On our first of 6 nights in the park we camped at Twee Rivieren (Twin Rivers) Campsite. There w...

6. Ladybrand to Upington, South Africa - 22 July to 28 July 2009 Ladybrand is a great town very close to the Maseru Bridge border crossing between Lesotho and South Africa. We spent some time stocking up with groceries, and sorting internet connections for our computer. Wednesday 22 July we camped at Little Rock Holiday Resort just out of town with little ponies grazing around us. On Thursday a long but interesting drive past Bloemfontein, turning off at Petrus...

5.Lesotho - 20 July to 22 July 2009 On Monday 20 July left Golden Gate NP and drove through and around the Drakensburg Mountains, which at this time of year are brown and barren but very scenic and spectacular. We eventually reached the bottom of the Sani Pass, renowned for its tortuous, steep ascent over rocky and rough dirt road. You leave South Africa on the way up, andcross the border into Lesotho at the top. It was more challenging than we'd anticipated, es...

4. Dundee and Golden Gate NP, South Africa - 16 July to 20 July 2009 We crossed the border back into South Africa at Lavumisa, across from Golela in South Africa. Very fast border crossing - within half an hour. Drove to Dundee across rugged open mountainous country then down on to beautiful black soil plains where all the battlefields can be found - including early Zulu wars, Zulu-Boer battles, Zulu-British battles, Boer-British battles and numerous uprisings ...