Category Archives: Africa

Hiking in Malawi and Carpark Camping

  HELLO + WELCOME to our adventure as we drive from Sydney to London, via Africa. It’s Kirsty here today with more of our travels from hiking in Malawi and finding a few very different places to park off.     It had been a long time in between hiking sessions and when we neared […]

Southern Malawi

  HELLO + WELCOME as we drive from Sydney to London, via the East Coast of Africa. It’s Kirsty here today with our travels from Southern Malawi.     After lapping up the luxury of Pumulani in Lake Malawi National Park we drove towards the country’s less visited southern parks and reserves. On the way […]

PUMULANI : REST WELL

    HELLO + WELCOME as we drive overland from Sydney to London, via East Africa, in our trusty old Landcruiser. Kirst and I are now just over a year on the road. We have covered 47000+ kilometres, spent over $9000 on diesel and snapped 22000+ photos. Although this expedition of ours has been carefully […]

ZAMBIA INTO MALAWI

    HELLO + WELCOME as we make our way from Sydney to London, overland. Our last post followed our journey driving around Zimbabwe, from there we headed into Zambia and Malawi. It’s Kirsty writing today.     We had a few urgent things to get done in Zambia. ONE: A new battery, as the […]

ZIMBABWE: OPEN FOR BUSINESS

        HELLO + WELCOME to Zimbabwe. It’s G here today sitting back in Malawi recollecting our time spent in Zim for all to hear about. This post will be followed up by an article that Kirst has written for the next edition of Pat Callinan’s 4×4 Adventures magazine. For now I am […]

WRAP UP {EDITION 38}

HELLO + WELCOME guys! We thought it was about time to do a WRAP UP of whats happening. Since our  first Wrap Up in Africa we have travelled 19 000+ kms and we are just about to hit our 5th month in the continent. All up we have driven across Australia, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, […]

Later, Botswana

HELLO + WELCOME as we drive from Sydney to London via Africa. Our latest story comes from a wet and dirty time in Botswana. It’s Kirsty behind the keyboard today. G is still drying off.     Crossing into Botswana felt like a big shift in the flow of the trip for us. We spent […]

A BUSTED LANDCRUISER : PART 1

  HELLO + WELCOME  as we drive our trusty old Landcruiser from Sydney to London, via Africa. It’s Gareth typing today and if you are new here, you are most welcome.     So, there we are driving through one of the most famous National Parks in the World.  After leaving a small side track searching […]

A WALK WITH THE HIMBA PEOPLE

  HELLO + WELCOME. It’s G here today sitting back on the banks on the Okavango River, re-living our time with the Himba people. Kirst and I visited a village in the far north Kunene region of Namibia. I want to share this with you because I have always found these people so fascinating and think […]

WHAT WE LIKE ABOUT OUR RIG + SET UP

    HELLO + WELCOME as always. We are 80 or so days into the African leg of the expedition and all is going well. We started this life changer on the 22nd of March 2013. The car has been running smoothly (well apart from the overheating problems), we are both healthy and we are […]