African Adventures - Overland J'burg to UK

Cameroon

2010-10-24T11:22:00.000-07:00

Will write post ....

Clare getting a job in the UK ... to start in 2 months time.

2010-10-24T09:48:00.000-07:00

Crossing the Equator

2010-10-24T09:47:00.002-07:00

Village Ceremony

2010-10-24T09:47:00.001-07:00

Security Guard in Franceville

2010-10-24T09:43:00.000-07:00

Gabon.....White, white WHITE!!!!!!

2010-10-24T09:23:00.000-07:00

GABONAh, Gabon ... Land of a President named Bongo; so enamored of himself he has renamed his home village ‘Bongoville’ (seriously: how good a name is that for a town ...?? And one which we duly pass through on day one and find to be both unimpressive in its reality and completely overdeveloped for its requirements - the true measure of a town versus the ego of its patron. One of those, as is to

The T-Shirt says it all

2010-09-15T11:47:00.000-07:00

Congo, Brazzaville

2010-09-15T11:45:00.000-07:00

CONGO-BRAZZAVILLEWe arrive from Kinshasa with plenty of time to clear Immigration and Customs, which we anticipate will be closing at 1700. However ... For whatever reason the ferry Captain (the Big Boat is really just a barge with accompanying tug) cannot, despite multiple attempts, find the angle needed to get us onto shore. We jig, we jag, we veer, we reverse, we float sideways past unattached

Crossing the Congo

2010-09-15T11:43:00.000-07:00

DRC- Congo, Heart of Darkness

2010-09-15T11:40:00.001-07:00

DRCRight, so it’s now 03 Sept and we’re halfway across Nigeria and I’m trying to write journal entries by ever-fading memory and sparse notes so I think it best I make these entries a heck of a lot more succinct ... Maybe I’ll fill in the blanks later, but as I’m now 4.5 countries down and finding it annoyingly difficult to get free time to write after the long days we’re putting in you’ll have

Cristo Rei, Lubango

2010-09-15T11:40:00.000-07:00

Angolan Tank

2010-09-15T11:38:00.000-07:00

Angolan Pothole

2010-09-15T11:36:00.000-07:00

Angola: Mines and Potholes

2010-09-15T11:26:00.000-07:00

ANGOLAArmed with our Letter of Permission from the Ambassador at the Angola Embassy in Harare (issued in place of a proper visa sticker for our passports as none were in stock there despite it having taken them over 3 weeks to process us ...) and a certain degree of trepidation about approaching a notoriously stringent border armed with only an 8.5 x 11 typed page of ‘please’ to get by with, we

Zambia - Take 2

2010-09-05T02:09:00.000-07:00

ZAMBIARight; on leaving Kariba and Clare’s overviews of our travels there it’s back over to me ... At the Zim side of the border; or, alternately, at the Zim side of the Kariba Dam (which forms the border with Zambia) we are quickly through the required admin with a minimum of fuss – only a few trailers comprise this side and I don’t think much in the way of traffic passes by with any regularity

Kariba

2010-07-31T00:38:00.000-07:00

Kariba, ZimbabweKariba is one of the main reasons for going into Zim. My Grandpa Corney was an engineer on the dam, and Mum spent some of her childhood here.It is one of those places that all the family talk about, so it had to be seen. The drive from Harare to Kariba took about 4 hours, and took us through some spectacular scenery, especially the turn off from the main road, to the winding road

Antelope Park

2010-07-16T02:33:00.000-07:00

Lion and Cheetah Park Harare

2010-07-16T02:32:00.000-07:00

Harare: When you are not waiting!

2010-07-14T02:15:00.001-07:00