Kaokoland has been described as one of the last true wilderness areas of Africa. It is a remote and uninhabited region, with the exception of a few Himba villages. We regretted missing this part of Namibia in 2019 and were determined to visit this time. If you plan to travel to Namibia’s “Wild West” make sure you have enough water, […]
Scattered across the remote North Western corner of Namibia lie (or stand or sit) some 37 stone men (possibly more, possibly less – no-one really knows). These half-size statues, comprising stone and steel, started appearing a few years ago amidst great secrecy. The artist prefers to remain anonymous and rumour has it that he/she works on an installation during the […]
Big Bertha, our expedition truck, has travelled a whopping 250,000km!! BB left the MAN factory in Germany on 13 February 2012 before travelling to Bocklet in Koblenz, Germany, to have the body fitted. This took around a year and BB’s first owners, The Overlanding Family, registered BB in the UK on 21 February 2013 and covered 199,608km before handing BB […]
Sorry for the delay in posting – our last post was in July 2021. At that time we had rushed back to Zambia so that we could fly home for David to say good bye to his Dad. We returned to Lusaka in late November, just as the latest mutation of Covid, Omicron, surfaced and we decided to make a […]