Thursday, May 31, 2012

The Great African Road Trip

The itinerary for the GART:

1. Derek traveled with Mary and Linda through the Garden Route from the Drakensburg towards Cape Town. Doug joined them on the way


We camped most nights and every morning had to repack Thuli's boot

On this zip line Derek saw two dwarf chameleons battling- one threw the other one down to the ground

2. Cape Town - Melissa flew back from Ethiopia to meet them there


Prepared to shark dive

  
2.5 Stellenbosh - wine, wine and more wine!
 




3. Linda headed back to Durban; we journeyed on to Namibia - dusty hot roads, reading the historical parts of travel books out-loud in the absence of a radio, random German villages and vibrant colors: sand dunes, sunsets and sunrises








  
4. Botswana - animals, makoro trips, hippo calls and saltpan wrestling





Just crossing the road in front of us!




Mary and Doug in there makoro

That is a hippo!

Getting out some tensions!










 

5. On to Zambia and Victoria Falls




  
6. Derek and I said farewell and went back to South Africa.