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Tankwa and Sutherland

When we left Cape Town for Johannesburg we had a few weeks time before flying to Australia to visit kids and grandkids and we decided to spend some more time in the Karoo. One of the things we still w...

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Jan 24, 2022

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Twyfelfontein and Doros Crater

After our night stop along the road we drove the last few km’s to Twyfelfontein and got ourselves a guide who took us on an hours walk to see the rock engravings of this World Heritage Site . Seeing t...

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Sep 15, 2021

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Brandberg and Fairy Circles

We left Uis and made camp close to the start of the White Lady hike . We all went exploring a bit around the camp site and found different spoor and tracks: elephant and giraffe being the most promine...

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Sep 13, 2021

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Windhoek

When we left Sossus we started travelling into the direction of Windhoek, as we had a camera problem to sort out. We made a compulsory stop at Solitaire to have enjoy their renowned apple strudel and ...

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Sep 1, 2021

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Luderitz and Kolmanskop

The biggest bugger about this Sperrgebiet thing is the inaccessibility of places: roads to places like Oranjemund and Luderitz are one way in and same way out… a few 100’s km there and back, because t...

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Aug 21, 2021

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Oranjemund

When we arrived in Oranjemund we made a beeline to the local Spar to do some shopping and find Mike. Mike proved to be so passionate about his town he just could not stop talking about it and he offer...

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Aug 16, 2021

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Dawdling around in Cape Town

When we arrived back in Cape Town , after our wind farm detour , we knew we were going to hover around there for an undetermined period of time: spending family time, sorting out stuff for Trokkie and...

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Jul 1, 2021

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Stonehenge and Tankwa Karoo

After sitting around for the last month or two with longer and shorter trips in and around Cape Town, we got a renewal of the garage plates we are currently driving with, and left for Tankwa. We’ve al...

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Dec 12, 2020

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Cape Town

While in Cape Town and camping (often) at my sister’s house, we got some more time to do things together. We had some more family braais, enjoyed a wine-lunch or two and took the dog for a walk to Maj...

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Nov 30, 2020

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Rock art road trip

In December 2018, Erika and family visited South Africa for the first time after their move to Jamaica. Christmas is the magic time and having missed out on the festive season with the family in 2017,...

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Dec 1, 2018

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Coastal Trip Noosa to Sydney

Two of our three children live in Australia, so we’ve been to the Land Down Under a few times so far. On our 2018 visit we decided to get a first taste of the east coast. Seeing we knew someone in Noo...

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Feb 1, 2018

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