So I’ve been yapping about this Acacia Africa tour for…20+ blogs now, and I’m safely deposited at my friend’s place in the DRC,and I’ve had a bit of time to reflect on my experience. It all started so innocently, with a google search about “best way to get to Victoria Falls from cape town”– I […]
This one time, nine of us took helicopter rides over the Okavango Delta…
I highly recommend starting your day with a 1.5 hour mokoro ride through the Okavango Delta, which of course is how we rolled on day 16. The ride back was incredibly peaceful in the early morning sunlight and Jane and I took some excellent photos, including some of an adorable little frog that decided to […]
This might be one of my absolute favorite days of the entire tour so far… On day 15 we got up hella early (I really should stop saying that, since “hella early” is basically normal on Desert Tracker…) and headed to the mokoro station to head to… THE OKAVANGO DELTA Mara, our safari truck, couldn’t […]
Day 13 For some reason, I get really excited about border crossing days. I don’t know if it’s because I really like getting the new stamps, or because I’ve never really done land crossings before, or what… but I woke up super excited (and super early, since I needed to use the Urban Camp WiFi […]
So I mentioned that in Swakopmund on day 8 we picked up three newbies to the tour, Lena, Johanna and Kris… I didn’t say much else since, well, I didn’t really know much else, but now I do so I figured I’d give you a little insight into The Perfect Ten’s “Plus Three”: The Germans […]
So the Acacia Africa Desert Tracker Tour that I’m a part of is conducted (as are most, from what I understand), in English. Now, you’d think that speaking the same language, we would all, well, understand each other. That’s where things get interesting. Just to jog your memory, our group consists of: Two Kiwis, Three […]
I can’t even begin to articulate the insanity of this day, so please bear with me while I attempt to recreate everything for you all. After our night out, I did one of my typical “wake up 5 minutes before I need to go somewhere” act, and I had a decent headache from the night […]
Day six was another drive day so this will be short and sweet! We hopped on the bus in the morning and I zipped myself in my sleeping bag on my seat to take a nap. I was dozing for a while when I woke up to an “OH SHIT!” and “Stop the truck!” I […]
Day 4 Day four was our first REALLY look driving day, where we had to cover 600 kilometers… which in a car on regular roads wouldn’t be so bad, but in a safari truck through the Kalahari Desert can be an interesting challenge… We got up REALLY early, like, before sunrise early, so we could […]
