Rob and Dee Overland in Africa 2014 – 10,000 miles – 4 months – 10 countries
We’ve had a few interesting elephant encounters lately here in Botswana. Our adventures stared in Chobe National Park where we were staying in a riverside campground that is located on a lighted waterhole. In the evenings you can watch the elephants come to drink under the dim glow of a few orange floodlights. Sitting on … Read more
Our camp in Botswana is on a waterhole and they have dug an underground hide next to the waterhole. You enter a stairway about 30 meters away and walk through a tunnel to the viewing area. I was just now sitting about 20 feet from a small herd of elephants– I was eye level with … Read more
A whole series of interesting events have transpired lately. Serendipity, luck, coincidence, who knows? On our way into Serengeti we had briefly met a wonderful So. African couple, Mike and Hester, who we later ran into a second time at a campground in southern Tanzania. We enjoyed each other’s company so much we made a … Read more
I’m sitting on the bank of the Luangwa river. The sun has just set, painting the sky an ostentatious orange – reminiscent of Doug West’s paintings of an Arizona sunset. In front of me there are at least 50 hippos bellowing and snorting and getting ready to leave the water where they spend their entire … Read more
Well the internet died after I typed a page story about this experience. Here are a few photos – I’ll rewrite the post later.
When I first started planning this trip I went online and found websites like Africa Overland Network, which had 50 or 60 blogs from people who had done trips like this. Many were from the UK, where it is a “thing” to outfit a land cruiser and go from the UK across a bit of … Read more