Africa travel blog! Way back in 2014/15 we had an awesome and adventurous year wandering around Africa. So we’ve blogged our travels and on-the-road life in Cuthbert, our Iveco Daily 4×4 camper truck. The last few weeks of our year in Africa are in the Archive posts below. For the full palaver over 12 countries, go to the Africa Blog page, or for the videos and photos see Africa Picture Gallery Click here for our Africa Highlights
🙁 Bad news… long delays with Cuthbert’s luxury cruise back to Europe due to extensive incompetence by shipping agents
🙂 Good news… the delay has given us time to put together a small smorgasbord selection of pics from our fab year in Africa. Yehhhhy!
Click here to see the Africa Random Picture Gallery and watch this space for news of Cuthbert’s return to Europe (fingers crossed!!!)
Cuthbert waiting on the dockside, ready to board his ‘luxury cruise’ from Port Elizabeth back to Europe
Finally, after an enjoyable few days in Port Elizabeth catching up with Gavin and Lee and preparing Cuthbert for the voyage, we handed him over to the shipping agent at the port. After a small volume of inevitable bureaucracy, we said our farewell to Cuthbert and were then dropped at the airport for our flight to UK via Johannesburg and Dubai. The end of a terrific adventure 🙂
Thank you Africa, you are a truly amazing place. We’ll be back… one day!
Click here for the full story of South Africa – the Final Leg and click here for our look-back over an amazing year: Africa Highlights
Latest video has now been added to the website: Cuthbert in Lesotho
As we leave overlanding Zimbabwe for the second time on this trip, we think it worth reflecting on the whole of our time spent in this controversial but extraordinary country: ‘controversial’ because of the political regime – is it right to come here and tacitly support the odious ‘Mugabe Bandwagon’? Yet ‘extraordinary’ because of the exceptionally friendly and welcoming people, the stunningly beautiful countryside and the wonderful attractions the country has to offer the tourist. Fabulous safari parks, spectacular mountains, intriguing jungle, quirky granite boulder landscapes, ancient caves and rock art, not to mention the world-class Victoria Falls (which incidentally, is far better seen from the Zim side than from Livingstone in Zambia).
