We departed the campsite at 7 heading for Maun. We stopped for a shop stop here to buy 10 litres of water each for our time in the Okavango Delta. As this was our last stop in civilisation before my birthday tomorrow, I treated myself to a birthday cream cake. Yum! We set off again at just before 11 reaching the campsite on the outskirts of town in good time. We had an early lunch while Steph made sure we had all we needed for the Delta and Ruan looked at fi...

We departed some time after 10, the drive taking us along the Elephant Highway so called due to the large numbers of elephants in the area. Unfortunately for us there weren't many near the road but we did see a trio in the mid-distance together with a giraffe later. At the second toilet stop around lunch time Ruan, our driver, noticed that the huge petrol tank was hanging off. It was such a good job he had noticed it because if it had fallen off while we we...

We got stamped out of Zambia an hour after setting off before waiting at the river's edge for the ferry. The Zambezi river marks the border just outside the small border town of Kazungula in the south of Zambia where we could see four countries at the same time, an area known as Africa's Four Corners. Standing in Zambia, on the opposite bank to the left was Zimbabwe, in front of us Botswana and 150m further to the right Namibia. A short hop across the 400m ...

We got up and after the usual pack up and breakfast routine we were on our way. There were no stops (except to use the 'bush' toilet) which meant we got to camp at about 2pm. After pitching our tent again we did some washing and then spent the afternoon chilling out. Some of the others went on a booze cruise along the Zambezi River while the ones left behind got together for dinner. We had lots of fun watching them all stumble off the boat a little worse fo...

A long day of driving followed. Starting with breakfast at 5.30 before being on the road at 6. Many of us slept badly due to strong winds blowing all night meaning the morning was a quiet one all round with lots of sleeping in the truck. Instead of sitting in her seat, Kirsty took one of the mattresses onto the truck and lay in the aisle on the floor dozing for a large part of the morning before we stopped for our first break. The next couple of hours passed qui...