Hi everyone We SURVIVED! The elephants on the Okovango didn't eat or trample us, the weather has been in the most part good to us, and we managed to survive the camping experience, although we wondered the other day when the skies opened up and it poured and poured! We had to take down the tents in the rain. IK!! We are in Livingstone today and flying back to Jo'burg tomorrow. This morning we went over the Zimbabwe border from Zambia to view the falls from the Zim side. Well!!!!!!!The difference is like chalk and cheese! The Zam side is quite dry and fairly ordinary but the Zim side - (when we got there - only about 5 kms away, but we had to go through one hour of border formalities and $30 US pp and ... read more

Travelling through hot desert country and have seen lots of great mountains and lots of deserts of course! Hot and dusty but magnificent country. Have seen a number of animals on the way incuding oryx, kudu, mountain zebra, springbok, ostrich and flamingoes at Walvis Bay. The campsites are quite good - often with a swimming pool to cool off after a long hot day on the road, but so COLD! ... read more

Have arrived in Cape Town. It has been a cold drive down from Knysna - the good weather deserted us momentarily! From then on it rained and rained. We stayed at Swellendam and it snowed - be it ever so briefly! The scenery is magnificent and at Stellenbosch we indulged in some wine tasting and a very nice lunch! Tomorrow we are going to go for a drive to see around Cape Town and may go up Table Mountain if the weather holds out. All our maps are on the first entry - Wireless Hill if you want to check out where we are.... read more

This is our last entry from home - finalising details. (Checking to make sure we know how to do this blog! Note, that there are multiple maps - saving one big map with all the details on it didn't work)) Roman is presenting the Police Officer of the Year Awards on the 2nd just before we leave. Our plane flight takes us from Perth to Joburg and then on to Cape Town where we will pick up a car and drive to Witsand on the eastern Cape.... read more