Tonight we fly out of Africa and start the Asia section of our trip. We can't believe how quickly the last thirteen weeks have gone past and how much we have done in that time. Africa is an amazing continent with such a complicated and difficult history and, of the countries we visited, most still have a challenging future. Despite this, nearly everyone we met was happy and friendly and made us feel very welcome. We definitely recommend Southern Africa as a holid...

Nic writes… The last couple of weeks have been very varied in all senses. When we last wrote we were on the drizzly south coast of South Africa, ending our time on the Garden Route. Since then we have travelled several thousand kilometres and we are currently sunning ourselves in Tofo, Mozambique. Firstly, we spent a day at Tenikwa, which is a wildlife rehabilitation centre that is also home to various wild African cats to attract visitors and funds. As my (e...

Richard here. The last week and a bit has been fairly busy but very relaxing. Compared to the rest of Africa, South Africa is very developed and very easy to travel round! We have been driving from place to place, enjoying great weather, beautiful scenery, and fun activities. This blog is going to be fairly tame in comparison to some of the others. After leaving Cape Town, we drove south down the Cape Peninsular. We saw a load of penguins (which Nic loved and e...

Nic writes... We made it! Over 27 days we travelled from Northern Botswana to Cape Town. We (95% Rich) drove 6,498.2km (it wasn't worth the stress of driving around in Cape Town to make it up to 6,500), stayed in 18 campsites and one hostel (it was freezing cold and we thought we deserved a night in a proper bed) and definitely had experiences of a lifetime! The southern half of Namibia was defined by the crazy landscapes and equally crazy weather. We visited t...