Botswana: Maun & Moremi Game Reserve Botswanan border post formalities dealt with, we struck out on the sand road towards Nakaneng, a small town which marks the start of […]
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Humble shack or border crossing?
to Border crossing: Namibia to Botswana Name: Dobe No. of officials: 2 Building: Tin hut Time taken: […]
Josi’s Top Ten: Namibia
We have had so many adventures already just in Namibia and we have really loved it. It is already hard to imagine what could possibly be our top ten for […]
World’s largest meteorite & Bushman tribe
Namibia: Tsumkwe Today was a day of record breakers. First up was the Hoba meterorite just outside Grootfontein. This was discovered by a farmer in 1921 when he noticed something […]
Etosha National Park & Celebrating Josi’s Birthday
Namibia: Etosha National Park. Approaching the Etosha National Park we were already beginning to see some of the wildlife hanging out around the borders – we wondered whether they were […]
A day in the life: Nystrom Adventures African Overland
Our days vary a lot, as you have seen, but we thought we would put this list together to give you an idea of a typical day… Alarm 6.15 Get […]
Bordering Angola – Epupa Falls & the drive to Etosha
Namibia: Kaokoveld: Epupa Falls, Kunene River, Kamanjab. As dawn broke over our riverside campsite near Epupa Falls, the incessant sound of rushing water which we had heard all night was […]
Himba Tribes & Three Wheel Driving in Kaokoveld
Namibia: Kaokoveld: Van Zyl’s Pass Campsite, Epupa. The road to Etanga started off well and we quickly reached the village where we had planned to camp. But this was a […]
The road North towards Kaokoveld
Namibia: Kaokoveld: Opuwo The route North from Twyfelfontein to Opuwo is a well graded gravel road, blissfully devoid of the 3 inch deep corrugations that had made the main road […]
Rock engravings & Damara tribes
Namibia: Damaraland: Twyfelfontein & Seisfontein Our first port of call heading north was a campsite, *Aabadi Mountain Camp”, just outside the extremely arid town of Twyfelfontein. Here it has not […]
Dawn, Desert & Dunes
Namibia: Sossusvlei We arrived at Sesriem full of excitement to see the much celebrated and photographed desert dunes of Sossusvlei. Sesriem is the gateway to the dunes and we obediently […]
Wild-roads, Wildlife, Wilderness
Namibia: Namib-Naukluft National Park About five kilometres inland from Walvis Bay the C14 deteriorates suddenly from smooth tarmac to the ubiquitous gravel which characterises most of Namibia’s roads. Much of […]
A visit to Crazy Harry
Namibia: Swakopmund While Swakopmund’s coastline may be skeletal, the waistline of most of its residents is not. One of our first observations here is the prodigious appetite of the locals […]
“In to Africa”
Namibia: Walvis Bay to Swakopmund After the debacle of our original attempt to get Tonka onboard the “Atacama” bound for Walvis Bay in Namibia back in July (which ended with […]
It’s time for Africa!
John and I are very excited to have completed the first part of our travels in Russia, Mongolia, Nepal, China and Indonesia. We have had so many experiences and shared […]
Josi’s Top Ten: China
These were our top 10 things in China (in no particular order) – obviously, they are not the top 10 things to do necessarily and perhaps they just came at […]
Hong Kong: Spend, spend, spend!
Our 10 hour bus journey from Yangshuo had turned into 14 hours and to add insult to injury we were told that the bus would not, after all, be able […]
Guilin & Yangshuo: Stunning scenery, boats & bicycles
The final leg of our 20 hour train ride from Chongqing to Guilin took us through the breathtakingly beautiful scenery of Guangxi. This is arguably China’s most picturesque province, and […]