A day trip to Robben Island is a very eye opening experience when in Cape Town. Here you will learn a lot about the brutal history of the apartheid and see where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated. But first let me continue our travel story 🙂 The next day a very seedy group boarded the truck …
While “roughing” it on an overland camping safari, one of my favourite campsites that we stayed at was Highlanders Wine Farm. Nestled at the foot of the Cederberg mountains, Highlanders is also a lodge and campsite. It is classified as a wine farm and not a winery because the grapes are only grown here. Once …
Canoeing along the Gariep River in South Africa was a lot of fun!! After the Fish River canyon we were back on the long dirt roads headed to the border crossing. We just crossed the border from Namibia back into South Africa. Interesting fact – The Gariep or Orange River that will be canoeing on …
Namibia in Africa is home to the second largest canyon in the world! The Fish River Canyon. Fish River Canyon is located in the South of Namibia, just north of the border of South Africa. The length of the canyon is around 160 km long, 27 km wide and up to 550 m deep. It …
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So after the Dead Valley we were back on the road heading to Fish Canyon. And to our next camp site at Canon Roadhouse in Namibia. Now the Canon Roadhouse was a sight for sore eyes. Ice cold beer, old school American cars, swimming pool and Oryx free ranging through out the camp site. I …
I would like to share with you some photos and a story of our time in Dead Vlei aka Dead Valley in Sossusvlei Namibia. So a bumpy 4×4 drive through the sand we made our way to Dead Valley. Along the way we saw some Oryx, chilling in the scrub. We parked our 4×4 and …
What is there to see and do on a day trip to Alexandria the port city of Egypt? Well as the city lies on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, you should def check out the coastline. Aside from seeing hundreds of boats moored by the coast it is also home to Cleopatra’s final resting …
Gather round my friends as I tell you a tale about Dune 45, the largest sand dune formation in the world, located in Sossusvlei in Namibia. This was hands down the hottest temperature I have ever experienced. It would have easily been 49 degrees and the wind was like a hair dryer. None the less …
Solitaire in Namibia is a very unique gas station stop. It’s full of old American cars and the perfect spot for some lunch. We were back on the road from Swakopmund to Sossusvlei, and this was one of the stops on our way through the desert. Our first stop was moon landscape. This place is …
I would like to continue our African Adventure with the day we went quad bike riding through the Swakopmund desert. Here we also had a quick stop for a little bit of sand tobogganing. Which took a turn for the worst. After the long drive from Spitzkoppe through the desert we finally made it to …
