We finally reached our final African Country of our big overland adventure - we still need to pinch ourselves on making it this far and just how amazing the trip has been. The last out of the 8 African countries - Lorna's homeland. We entered into South Africa through the natural border of the Orange River (separating Namibia and South Africa) Here are a few of the great highlights. THE CAPE:  Canoeing on the Orange River which wa...

NAMIBIA Namibia was probably the most diverse country we had passed through, are you ready for this... Firstly we went to the Etosha National Park. Etosha is the major nature reserve of Namibia, covering over 20 000 square Kilometres with a large variety of animal and bird species. Etosha is famous for the night time watering holes based at the campsites within the park. Unfortunately it was rainy season so there were puddles of water everywhere so anim...

BOTSWANA We left half of our truck in Vic Falls as there trip was over. Lorna and I were in it for the long haul down to Cape Town. It was much quieter and roomy with only 13 people! Very strange too. At last a FREE border crossing, even for us Brits! Our first stop in Botswana was the Chobe National Park. This was cool as we were on a flat boat. We got extremely close and personal with many elephant, hippos, crocs, a huge iguana and many other an...

ZIMBABWE Compared to Zambia the border crossing was a breeze - for goodness sake Steve was even allowed to stamp his own passport!!! Still charged him twice as much as everyone else because he's British! We entered the sleepy town of Vic Falls - rather desolate with all the political upheaval. Even though Vic falls town was sleepy we managed to get some cool adrenaline activities under our belt. Wow, it got lively. From a Helicopter flight over th...

What a nightmare of a border crossing!!!!!! We all had a visa waiver, but guess what??? When we arrived they had conveniently lost our waiver. We had to get the manager of our camp to drive to the border with the photocopy. Guess what after 3 hours they had decided a photocopy wasn't valid!!! Hmmm making the rules as they go. In the end we all had to pay, some it was $25 for Brits it was $60!!!! No price lists, just lining the border guys pockets. Wow I was ang...