On our first day in Namibia, we stopped for lunch at Fish River Canyon, the world’s second largest canyon after the Grand Canyon. Unfortunately, all the hiking trails are closed in summer because the temperature in the canyon was above 50 degrees Celsius. The geology and landscape, which is dry with no vegetation and has […]
September 14th 2005, we left Canada feeling ready to tackle the road from Cape to Cairo. Our grand adventure had begun once we picked up our fully kitted out modified expedition Land Cruiser 80 series in Johannesburg. Where are we going to put everything? A LABOUR OF LOVE Several kilometres south of Johannesburg, we visited […]
We crossed the bridge demarcating the border between Nigeria and Cameroon with a sigh of relief. We had heard wonderful things about travelling through Cameroon especially when compared to the challenges of transversing Nigeria. We arrived in Ekok, a typical little border town in Cameroon. Grubby and very busy, as it is the primary smugglers […]
