momi20
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- Bike
- Suzuki DR350
When we start obviously ther’s no one seat vacant
this morning I feel really better and so I begin to think: I paid the rent up to July 15..ok I send a sms to Craig: Do you have anothre bike available to rent ? Yes, the Yamaha Tenerè, that’s just little bigger than the XT. Moreover the bike insurance is ready to pay me the cost to come back in Cape Town, by plane. In Tsumeb I’ll can get a bus to Windoek and from there a fly to Cape Town. After 3 minutes I’ve written to Craig: keep the Tenerè in your box, I’m coming back.
Stop along Caprivi Strip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprivi_Strip)
Our bus is a little bit slow, but regular...just one imperfection. At the stop, if the driver doesn’t turn off the engine, ok we can start again. If the driver has to turn off the engine, passengers has to go down and push a little the bus
This population is living very bad: they are along a very well-travelled road, but the only trades are some little shop for food and drink, cellular phones and point where is possible buy this bags of coal made out of burned trees. The problem is that people burn trees without any rule or planning to plant new trees
our driver
a stop in a “city”
to be sure to eat well, is enough to get the food with the driver: he stops here every day, for sure nobody try to give him bad food. Dry fish
What can happen with 4 different brand of tyres on your bus ? A puncture
last city before the border
around 4 pm we cross the Zambesi River
the border
really strange you walk to reach the Namibian Border
ok is late afternoon so I’ve got to reach the first namibian city, Katima Mulilo, find a bed and tomorrow morning find a bus to Tsumeb. Ok I see some taxi just outside the border station..but again Spaceman Spiff is lucky
Right now arrive the Intercape bus, the same of the outward voyage. It started in Livingstone at 10 am: but this bus is really faster than mine .Why is the Intercape bus arived here later ? same bus, same problem with oil, but now the problem get worst: a support car is following the bus. Ok a local bus will bring us to katima Mulilo, where will be possible eat and wait the Intercape Bus: drivers and mechanic are tryng to repair it.
go Italy
The way back isn’t quiet: 4 police check point, but I can sleep.
July 4th, Monday
Around 6.30 am I’m back in the Mousebird in Tsumeb. A bus company ( The Sunshine) connect Tsumeb and Windoek and timetable is ok to can get the fly tomorrow to Capetown. I did all reservations by phone. Before to go to sleep I greet a guy known at the gas station. He works as security: 12 hours of day and night shifts.
July 5th
At 6.30 am the Sunshine Bus is at the gas station
at 12,30 I’m in Windhoek. The fly is at 3,30 pm: I’ve got time to try to find a windbreaker. I’ve in mind to drive the Yamaha along the Garden Route in South Africa ( just 7 days of vacation), but is winter season and here is cooler than Namibia. While I was walking on the main road a guy stopped me” What are you lokiing for ?” “ a windbreaker” I answer. He said :”Keep mine is cheap” Too little for me. He tells to me to wait some minute and he’s back with one bigger. Size ok and price good, 250 Namibian $ ( 31$=23€): I bought it.
At the airport of Windhoek
you walk to go to the airplane, no minibus
At 7.30 pm I’m back in Cape Town and with a taxi I come back to the Wonkey Donkey
July 6th
In the afternoon at Craig’s office, we sign a new contract for the Yamaha Tenerè: this is the son of Craig
I’m on the road again
ok I’ve got the bike, but itinerary ? My original plane was to cross Botswana and come back in Cape Town from the north: I had’nt read nothing about South Africa and I haven’t guidebokk..ohh ok I’ve got the Jump To and a map. In the hostel I find a free guidebook of youth hostel in South Africa and a free map of the Garden Route, a way very dangerous..for a tourist like me: 5 stars hotel everywhere, expensive restourants, luxury shops ecc.. A very intresting thing is Cape Aguihlas the southernmost point of Africa: the junction of Atlantic and Indian ocean. The way back could be through the Klein Karoo, a mountain range . Ok itinerary is settled: stages ? Easy when is going dark I’ll stop for sleep: believe me, never drive in the dark in Africa.
July 7th
Ok a new start with a new bike
the ocean
Cape Aguihlas: I push the bike to can reach the milestone
never drive in the night and in Mossel Bay, I stop looking for the Little Brak Beach House https://www.littlebrakbeachhouse.co.za but isn’t a easy place to find: is a little bit outside Mossel Bay. It is located in Klein Brak. A very nice couple ( Hendrik and Maritza) bring me to the hostel.
The place is very nice and for just 9€ ( 12$) I get a single room: this 2 girls ( from Switzerland and UK) are working in a natural reserve, as volunteers, they’re biologists
July 8th Friday
Breackfast
the hostel
a picture on the ocean
and now i can start to Porth Elisabeth.
this morning I feel really better and so I begin to think: I paid the rent up to July 15..ok I send a sms to Craig: Do you have anothre bike available to rent ? Yes, the Yamaha Tenerè, that’s just little bigger than the XT. Moreover the bike insurance is ready to pay me the cost to come back in Cape Town, by plane. In Tsumeb I’ll can get a bus to Windoek and from there a fly to Cape Town. After 3 minutes I’ve written to Craig: keep the Tenerè in your box, I’m coming back.
Stop along Caprivi Strip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprivi_Strip)
Our bus is a little bit slow, but regular...just one imperfection. At the stop, if the driver doesn’t turn off the engine, ok we can start again. If the driver has to turn off the engine, passengers has to go down and push a little the bus
This population is living very bad: they are along a very well-travelled road, but the only trades are some little shop for food and drink, cellular phones and point where is possible buy this bags of coal made out of burned trees. The problem is that people burn trees without any rule or planning to plant new trees
our driver
a stop in a “city”
to be sure to eat well, is enough to get the food with the driver: he stops here every day, for sure nobody try to give him bad food. Dry fish
What can happen with 4 different brand of tyres on your bus ? A puncture
last city before the border
around 4 pm we cross the Zambesi River
the border
really strange you walk to reach the Namibian Border
ok is late afternoon so I’ve got to reach the first namibian city, Katima Mulilo, find a bed and tomorrow morning find a bus to Tsumeb. Ok I see some taxi just outside the border station..but again Spaceman Spiff is lucky
Right now arrive the Intercape bus, the same of the outward voyage. It started in Livingstone at 10 am: but this bus is really faster than mine .Why is the Intercape bus arived here later ? same bus, same problem with oil, but now the problem get worst: a support car is following the bus. Ok a local bus will bring us to katima Mulilo, where will be possible eat and wait the Intercape Bus: drivers and mechanic are tryng to repair it.
go Italy
The way back isn’t quiet: 4 police check point, but I can sleep.
July 4th, Monday
Around 6.30 am I’m back in the Mousebird in Tsumeb. A bus company ( The Sunshine) connect Tsumeb and Windoek and timetable is ok to can get the fly tomorrow to Capetown. I did all reservations by phone. Before to go to sleep I greet a guy known at the gas station. He works as security: 12 hours of day and night shifts.
July 5th
At 6.30 am the Sunshine Bus is at the gas station
at 12,30 I’m in Windhoek. The fly is at 3,30 pm: I’ve got time to try to find a windbreaker. I’ve in mind to drive the Yamaha along the Garden Route in South Africa ( just 7 days of vacation), but is winter season and here is cooler than Namibia. While I was walking on the main road a guy stopped me” What are you lokiing for ?” “ a windbreaker” I answer. He said :”Keep mine is cheap” Too little for me. He tells to me to wait some minute and he’s back with one bigger. Size ok and price good, 250 Namibian $ ( 31$=23€): I bought it.
At the airport of Windhoek
you walk to go to the airplane, no minibus
At 7.30 pm I’m back in Cape Town and with a taxi I come back to the Wonkey Donkey
July 6th
In the afternoon at Craig’s office, we sign a new contract for the Yamaha Tenerè: this is the son of Craig
I’m on the road again
ok I’ve got the bike, but itinerary ? My original plane was to cross Botswana and come back in Cape Town from the north: I had’nt read nothing about South Africa and I haven’t guidebokk..ohh ok I’ve got the Jump To and a map. In the hostel I find a free guidebook of youth hostel in South Africa and a free map of the Garden Route, a way very dangerous..for a tourist like me: 5 stars hotel everywhere, expensive restourants, luxury shops ecc.. A very intresting thing is Cape Aguihlas the southernmost point of Africa: the junction of Atlantic and Indian ocean. The way back could be through the Klein Karoo, a mountain range . Ok itinerary is settled: stages ? Easy when is going dark I’ll stop for sleep: believe me, never drive in the dark in Africa.
July 7th
Ok a new start with a new bike
the ocean
Cape Aguihlas: I push the bike to can reach the milestone
never drive in the night and in Mossel Bay, I stop looking for the Little Brak Beach House https://www.littlebrakbeachhouse.co.za but isn’t a easy place to find: is a little bit outside Mossel Bay. It is located in Klein Brak. A very nice couple ( Hendrik and Maritza) bring me to the hostel.
The place is very nice and for just 9€ ( 12$) I get a single room: this 2 girls ( from Switzerland and UK) are working in a natural reserve, as volunteers, they’re biologists
July 8th Friday
Breackfast
the hostel
a picture on the ocean
and now i can start to Porth Elisabeth.
