There are a few companies which are offering these special overland tours through Africa. I booked my tour with G-Adventures and it was a really good choice. The tour was operated and guided by Hetti and Kobus, a lovely couple from Cape Town. Kobus was driving the truck and Hetti was responsible for cooking and everything else ;-) ... she was an excellent cook and made delicious meals in the small mobil kitchen ... and sometimes we had also a small lunch-break along the street. The trucks are modified - a little bit - so that they carry up to 22 people instead of goods ;-) ... it looks like a normal bus inside and below the passenger cabin there is a small luggage space and a small mobil kitchen.
So, instead of crowded minibuses and delayed trains I got a fully organized adventure tour with plenty of space in an overland truck. The tour started at Victoria Falls / Zambia and led us through Botswana and Namibia where we visited the following highlights ...
- Chobe National Park / Botswana
- Okavango Delta / Botswana
- Kalahari Desert / Botwana
- Waterberg Plateau / Namibia
- Etosha National Park / Namibia
- Namib Desert & Sossusvlei / Namibia
- Fish River Canyon / Namibia
- Orange River / South Africa
As I already mentioned, the overlander tour was well organized ... we were driving in a truck, sleeping in tents and cooking and eating outdoors ... during the long drives we had a lot of time to relax, enjoy the beautiful landscape, read a book and talk with each other ... however, at the camp there were some duties (eg. setting up the tents, helping in the kitchen, cleaning the truck, ...) and everybody had to help each other ... and sometimes we had an open fire where we sat around, drank some wine and had fun ;-) ... and so I met Isla, a *quite old, but funny* Scottish girl, who lives in Australia ... and so it came that *Dark Dude* meets *Red Ninja* (see picture below)... or Austria meets Australia ... or *bebe young care* meets *V.S.O.P* (for insider only ;-)
Cheeky young thing!!
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