Rob and Dee Overland in Africa 2014 – 10,000 miles – 4 months – 10 countries
A few nights ago we camped on the rim of the Ngorongoro crater. As we pitched camp about 5 pm a herd of zebras were grazing about 20 meters away but by nightfall they had moved off into the bush. We went to sleep under the nearly full moon anticipating an O’dark thirty departure to … Read more
We spent today exploring Ngorongoro crater. The light was pretty overcast so the big scenic vistas were not very photogenic. Fortunately that type of lighting is excellent for portraits so I concentrated my camera on close-ups of some of the regulars.
We’ve spent the last 3 days in Arusha, Tanzania getting the brakes on the truck re-done, balancing and aligning the tires, oil change, etc. Tomorrow we head off to Serengeti Park hoping to have timed our trip to see the migration of over 1 million wildebeests and zebra as they head north into Kenya. The … Read more
We spent the last few days driving on remote and very bad dirt back roads in the highlands of Tanzania. We passed a few local buses and very heavily overloaded trucks- some broken down in the road with flat tires or cracked axels from the rough roads, but not one other tourist car. The villages … Read more
Our first night’s campsite at Ruaha National Park in Tanzania is vastly different from the ones we have experienced so far. In the other parks the campsites are inside a large fenced enclosure. They close the gates from sunset to sunrise so the tourists are fenced inside and the animals free to roam throughout the … Read more
Just a quick note to say we are waaay behind on the blog. We’ve been moving pretty steadily north. Now in Tanzania and the little GPS tracker thing in the right panel of the blog should be working now. In Blantyre, Malawi we stayed with friends of friends who are now our friends as well- … Read more