So, Amit pointed out that many people might not know what are our plans for the trip and such and so will not understand where we are going and why so here is comes...
The Grand Plan
Our grand plan is a circular voyage in southern Africa, starting and ending at South Africa. We started, as you know, at Cape Town where we traveled the southern coast for about a week. We then went up to Namibia, where we will be travelling for a total of 5 weeks.
Next we will be taking a bus to Victoria Falls in Zambia, from which we will take a train (that lasts a few days) to Dar Es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania (which is technically part of eastern, not southern Africa). At this point we will start our way back south, crossing into Mozambique on it's northern border with Tanzania, making our way down on the coast. So you ask,why is this not in the map I linked?? Because there is no driving route - you stop at the border in Tanzania to sign the papers, walk to the river and take a boat to the other side, then walk to the border there. But yesterday someone told us about this really cool 3 days boat ride from Zambia into Mozambique through Lake Malawi, so who knows :)
Once in Mozambique, we might be very happy laying on the beach for about a month and do nothing but read good books and eat good food, or we might still have the bug and will continue on to travel in Swaziland and Lesotho. Lesotho being the only country completely surrounded by another country, no other border - just South Africa. And from there back home!
That's it. Now you know the Grand Plan.
The Petit Plan - Namibia
So the plan in Namibia is fairly simple - we started fro the Fish River in the south, then through Sesriem making our way north, perhaps stopping at the Himba people in the north west.Then we will start our way east through Etosha to the Kalahari to meet the San and into Botswana to the Okavango delta. Then back to Windhoek.
Other Stuff - Namibia So Far
When I set to write this post I did it because I haven't written in a while, but the truth is I don't really know how to define the passed week we have been on the roads here in Namibia. It is long long drives in sometimes breathtaking landscapes. Sometimes without seeing another car pass by for hours. It is full of unexpected surprises, like a stop we did to see a Quivertree forest, which are odd looking trees set against odd looking rock formations, but amongst them was a weird and crazy art work - peoples figures made of scraps driving cars and doing pull ups, it looked like an hallucination. Or the time we stopped at a camp and got some wood, made dinner on the open fire (yummy shakshuka!) and the night was so cold we shivered through it, to find a thick layer of frost on our tent! Or when we went to see the champions league final at a sport pub here - I have never seen more expressive fans. They jumped, danced, hugged and cried. The owner was a Manchester fan and closed the tv everytime Barca scored as protest, it was awesome! So you see, it is just a combination of many experiences, some good some bad, like life but denser :)
The Grand Plan
Our grand plan is a circular voyage in southern Africa, starting and ending at South Africa. We started, as you know, at Cape Town where we traveled the southern coast for about a week. We then went up to Namibia, where we will be travelling for a total of 5 weeks.
Next we will be taking a bus to Victoria Falls in Zambia, from which we will take a train (that lasts a few days) to Dar Es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania (which is technically part of eastern, not southern Africa). At this point we will start our way back south, crossing into Mozambique on it's northern border with Tanzania, making our way down on the coast. So you ask,why is this not in the map I linked?? Because there is no driving route - you stop at the border in Tanzania to sign the papers, walk to the river and take a boat to the other side, then walk to the border there. But yesterday someone told us about this really cool 3 days boat ride from Zambia into Mozambique through Lake Malawi, so who knows :)
Once in Mozambique, we might be very happy laying on the beach for about a month and do nothing but read good books and eat good food, or we might still have the bug and will continue on to travel in Swaziland and Lesotho. Lesotho being the only country completely surrounded by another country, no other border - just South Africa. And from there back home!
That's it. Now you know the Grand Plan.
The Petit Plan - Namibia
So the plan in Namibia is fairly simple - we started fro the Fish River in the south, then through Sesriem making our way north, perhaps stopping at the Himba people in the north west.Then we will start our way east through Etosha to the Kalahari to meet the San and into Botswana to the Okavango delta. Then back to Windhoek.
Other Stuff - Namibia So Far
When I set to write this post I did it because I haven't written in a while, but the truth is I don't really know how to define the passed week we have been on the roads here in Namibia. It is long long drives in sometimes breathtaking landscapes. Sometimes without seeing another car pass by for hours. It is full of unexpected surprises, like a stop we did to see a Quivertree forest, which are odd looking trees set against odd looking rock formations, but amongst them was a weird and crazy art work - peoples figures made of scraps driving cars and doing pull ups, it looked like an hallucination. Or the time we stopped at a camp and got some wood, made dinner on the open fire (yummy shakshuka!) and the night was so cold we shivered through it, to find a thick layer of frost on our tent! Or when we went to see the champions league final at a sport pub here - I have never seen more expressive fans. They jumped, danced, hugged and cried. The owner was a Manchester fan and closed the tv everytime Barca scored as protest, it was awesome! So you see, it is just a combination of many experiences, some good some bad, like life but denser :)
