My African experience with George the greek

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Having a braai with Satdiver and people we met On the boat trip .

Chobe river Safaris camp

 

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The next day we left Kasane and rode through the Chobe national park to the top of the so called pan handle going into Caprivi strip . We cleared the border and rode onto Katimo malilo  ....A bit of a dump. we had lunch there . Rode onto Kangola and started looking for a place to sleep . Rode twenty kilos to a place we were told about and the place was closed for for some reason . The old fart would not even let us put a tent up on the property ,it was Kwando lodge ,  and it was getting dark .  we went back to the tar anh carried on looking and we decided to camp @Mazambala lodge camping ground  . We had to do about 5km on a thick sandy road , and as we arrived at the camp we wiped out badly in the sand . My wife was thrown off and she was OK , but my foot was twisted and stuck under the bike . My wife could not lift the bike off , but fortunately the watchman ran to her assistance. I thought my ankle was broken and I could not walk , so my wife booked us into the lodge a smart place run by a PE guy David De Lange and you had to get there by boat . So the boat fetched us and the watchmen kept an eye on the bike in the camping ground .
I swallowed a couple of cataphlam and my wife put my ankle on ice  and in the morning I could walk....just but I had lots more cataphlam ...lived on them for a few days .

Wifa a bit nervous of the mud .

 

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Our room @ Mazambala lodge

 

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Between Rundu and Kangola I met another wild dog

 

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WE rode on to Rundu and found a place to camp at  Kaisosi River Lodge . It had a nice deck overlooking the Okavango river and a good restaurant .
While having breakfast the next morning we watched the Angolans coming over to the Namibia  side in their makoras to work .

 

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Next day we left and moved on to Tsumeb . I was aware that my front tyre was starting to wear badly on one half so I thought maybe I would go to Windhoek from Tsumeb and get a new one . Pleasant ride to Tsumeb where we booked into a resort as you enter the town (forget the name)  . I notice my front tyre is stuffed .  So the next day we decide to order a tyre from Windhoek and while it is on its way we will hire a car and go to Etosha and camp there until the tyre arrives . We go to Travel North Guesthouse and hire a car from them and while my wife is packing I go to The tyre place to see if they can organize a tyre from Windhoek . The guy gets on the phone and finds a TKC IN Grootfontein  50km away for R1200 a bargain it was brand new by the way. Ut any way we have booked a cage and we are off to Etosha Pan A few hours we were booking into Namatomi camping ground .

 

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Camping with the cage in Namotami in Etosha pan reserve .

 

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The next night in Halali rest camp
We saw a hell of a lot of animals , but I wont bore you with animal pictures

 

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we spent two days and nights in Etosha snd when we got back to Tsumeb the tyre was sorted and we booked the night in at Travel North guest house .  .That night we had a pleasant braai
Travel North Guest house were very helpfull they can organize most things .

 

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I think she was enjoying herself .

 

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We left Tsumeb and started working our way down towards Swakopmund .
the route was Otjiwarongo to Okahandja and then turn west throughKarabib to Swakopmund .
We slept over at a crummy backpackers in Swakopmund and left the next morning for Solitaire via Walvis .


Looking for shade it gets hot in that place.

 

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On the way to solitaire through the Namib .

 

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At this stage we were running out of time
,so we were doing big distances as we had to get home within the week .



Some picks of the Namib ...very hot in February

 

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More of the Namib

 

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Most people take this Photo

 

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I really enjoy Solitaire , something about that place .

 

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The old bat also enjoys it .

 

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Solitaire sunset

 

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We left Solitare the next morning heading for Keetmanshoop . There was a lot of loose gravel on the road and I let my tyres down to one bar front and back . it helped a lot .


Storm in the desert

 

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We rode through Malthohe ( had snacks at the Backpackers) where where we were back on tar , on to Mariantal and then on to Keetmanshoop .


Spent the night at this joint R 200 for the night