From Capetown, I took a 3 week overland trip with Nomad's. The tour piled us all into one big truck with our backpacks and tents. We camped almost every night, and ate cucumber-tomato-cheese sandwiches almsot every day. It was a great trip, allowing me to cover a lot of distance and seeing a lot. There were many hours spent in the truck tho. Some times we played games, sometimes we slept. The trip took us through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe.
Dates: 10/12/03-11/3/03 (Days 42-64)
Highlights:
Truck breakdown ♦ 6 hr canoeing on Orange River ♦ sunrise hike up Dune 45 ♦ Soussuvlei guided desert walk walk walk ♦ Niña ♦ "Hey, Linkie! Put on some music!" ♦ England 25 - South Africa 6 ♦ Rafters ♦ sandboarding ♦ bush, bush, camp ♦ BURRO ♦ lion kill ♦ vultures ♦ Walvis Bay Flamingos ♦ Mokoro race ♦ drinking river water ♦ bye, Jill ♦ shithead ♦ "Where's the toilet paper" ♦ "I have enough photos of elephants." ♦ Dave the spade ♦ bird watchers ♦ cucumber, tomatoe, and cheese sandwhich ♦ hippo chase ♦ Z$4500 to US$1 ♦ Cape Cross Cape Fur Seal Colony ♦ "Doctor" Carlos ♦ "I felt something sleep next to me last night. It wasn't Katharina. It wasn't Sonia..." ♦ Springbok good-byes to Alex ♦ 5 border crossings ♦ Rafting on the Zambezi ♦ Flipping the raft on the Zambezi ♦ no buses or trains out ♦ swimming at camps ♦ sunsets by the waterhole ♦ "Welcome to..." ♦ 4600km &diams 2 extra days in Vic Falls for me
Itinerary: Cedarberg, Namaqualand, Gariep (Orange) River, Fish River Canyon, Sossusvlei, Swakopmund, Spitzkoppe, Etosha NP, Rundu, Okavango Delta, Chobe NP, Victoria Falls
Participants: Bea & Sonia (Spain), Stefanie (Holland), Alex (UK), Dave & Claire (UK); Anna, Rosa, & Carlos (Spain); Mar & Raul (Spain), Tom (US), Beth & Jill (US); Esther (Germany),Chang (S.Korea), Katharina & Roger (Holland); Perveen (US), Diana K. & Liane (Holland); Linda (Holland)
Guides: Johan, Linkie, and Dumi Sani
