A 6 week trip around Southern Thailand in July August 2025. A rough itinerary is below:
Week 1: Koh SamuiWeek 2: Koh PhanganWeek 3: Koh TaoWeek 4: Phuket & Koh Phi PhiWeek 5: Koh LantaWeek 6: A few days in Bangkok either side of the main weeks
A 6 week trip around Southern Thailand in July August 2025. A rough itinerary is below:
Week 1: Koh SamuiWeek 2: Koh PhanganWeek 3: Koh TaoWeek 4: Phuket & Koh Phi PhiWeek 5: Koh LantaWeek 6: A few days in Bangkok either side of the main weeks
The purpose of this post is to cover the steps we had to take in order to get our vehicle from the UK to Namibia. There is a fair amount of paperwork and cost involved, and I will outline it all below. These steps will be very similar for shipping vehicles from anywhere in the world to Western, Eastern and Southern Africa. Quite a lot of work went into preparing the...
The best value for money for an overlander going on safari… Camping and park access fees vary hugely between different countries. Does paying more give you a better experience? At the top end of the price spectrum is a self-drive visit to the Ngorongoro Crater in Northern Tanzania. It is astronomical. In fact all national parks in Tanzania are expensive to...
Day 1 We arrived in Walvis Bay after a fairly long trip: 9 1/2 hours night flight from Frankfurt to Windhoek, arriving at 8am to a bright and very chilly Namibian morning, then spent the rest of the day transferring to Walvis Bay. Points to note: You’ll need to know the name of a hotel in Namibia to fill out the Visa form correctly on landing. We had nothing...
Day 8 After waking up early we left the nondescript NWR campsite in Khoriaxas around 9.30am for another day of driving. We were headed another 200 miles north to see the famous desert elephants in the Hoanib valley. The drive was stunning, again. It was mostly driving along flat plains surrounded by low mountains. The first area were all flat-topped mountains similar...
Day 15 Chill out day in camp in Etosha as we both needed a break from the constant driving. I did some minor checks and repairs to car, some work emails etc View from the tower at the repurposed old German Fortress at Namutoni Campsite Spectacular sunsets in Namutoni, 360 degree views of the pan and surrounding flat terrain Day 16 A big driving day from Etosha...
Day 22 – Khwai back to Maun The lack of hot showers at Magoltho and recent fairly long stint in the bush prompted us to head down to Maun for a bit of R&R and to get some overdue chores done (work emails, car oil change and clothes washing). We would then head back up to Khwai. The drive to Maun was down a really badly-maintained gravel road, with patches...
Day 29 – Wedding anniversary We tried (and failed) to meet Suma’s brother Gwmaka. He was just over the border in Zimbabwe. The visa costs for us to cross over into Zimbabwe for 2 hours were too high. We then had a long drive ahead of us as we wanted to get as close as possible to the Lower Zambezi National Park. It took us the rest of the day to get to Gwabi...
Day 36 – North Luangwa shortcut In order to avoid the 3 day boring tar road via Lusaka, we had 3 options to get to Tanzania: 1. The hard but short way: From SL there is the notorious ‘05’ road which leads directly up to the Great North Road. It has a tricky river crossing at the start (only recently rebuilt and made navigable) followed by a difficult ascent...
Days 43-49 We left our friends at Lake Shore Lodge after a couple of very relaxing days, and began our journey to Morogoro. Suma needed to fly out of Dar on 17th July to head back to the UK to fetch our 2 kids, returning on 20th July. A bit of a hectic turnaround but circumstances were as they were. The drive from Kipili to Mbeya was long – it took all day and...