Finally i get to the internet for long enough to write on here! Its been a pretty hectic few weeks and i can't believe i only have 4 more nights left in my tent. I don't have heaps of time so i'll give you a brief overview of what truck-life has been like..

Theres 20 of us on the truck (3 couples, 1 family, 9 girls and 1 guy) and everyone gets on well. We have 4 teams and take it in turns to cook, clean and guard the truck. So far i've gained the reputation of cooking the best fried eggs and our spaghetti carbonara went down a treat!

From livingstone we went into botswana and stayed just outside the Chobe NP. We only had one night here before we went further in to the Okavango Delta. After 1night at the main site we went on a mokoro trip into the middle of the delta where we bush camped for 2nights and went on long bush walks in the beating sun. Really fun as there was nothing and no-one there.

After Botswana we headed into Nambia, first staying one night at a camp just across the border. This was a really nice place and the 'swimming pool' was a cage in the river - obviously I had to go in! From here we went to Etosha NP, again for 1night, where we did our own game drives in the truck. Saw loads of wildlife but not a leopard so i'm missing that off my big5 list :( it was amazing though as we stumbled across a pride of 10 lions and watched them walking towards us, drinking from the waterhole and posing for pictures - amazing.

We left Etosha and headed to a cheetah farm where we arrived just in time to see them being fed so we got some great photos of them leaping and fighting for their zebra meat. Again we had 1night here before we stayed our drive through the Skeleton Coast. It was amazing as there was literally nothing in whatever direction you looked until we hit the sea, and then all we saw were a few shipwrecks. We camped on the beach that night - freezing cold - before driving to Swakopmund. Its been really great here as we've had 4nights in dorms (no camping facilities yay!) and there are loads of activities to do here, plus a nice beach.

I've been sandboarding, quadbiking in the dunes and go-karting - all so much fun! A few people from the group did skydiving which would have been amazing but way out of my price range i'm afraid.

From here we leave in about an hour and have a 6hour truck ride ahead of us. I really like the journeys actually as the scenery changes a lot and you can just chat or play scrabble/cards. The next few days will be a lot of driving but we stop at Sesrium, Fish River Canyon and the Orange River before getting to Cape Town on Friday night.

Speak in Cape Town!