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    discovery 1 for year traveling Africa

    Ray G ive just been looking throught your build very nice! the write up is on! oxford to capetown! cheers for the comments
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    Oxford to Cape Town in 9 months

    Namibia 6, Koakoland and Poachers! Jasper had a few hunters booked in over the next week, so we would help out at the camp and around the farm with Renier. One of Jaspers farmers had found a dead baby zebra up in the hills which was killed by a leopard, so this would mean the hunters would have...
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    Oxford to Cape Town in 9 months

    Namibia 5, family! We headed to the next big town called Kamanjab were we would meet Achi (Achi2Africa). After hours on the dead straight roads we soon arrived into the dusty town and would meet Achi at the Oppi-Koppi rest camp. This place was amazing as it had been welcoming overlanders for...
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    Oxford to Cape Town in 9 months

    Namibia 4, Hunting! As we drove out of Etosha we noticed a sign only a few kilometres out of the park saying Cheetahs. So we decided to go check it out. We drove up to the farm house and was greeted by the farmer who gave us a little explanation as to what they do and how they acquire the...
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    Oxford to Cape Town in 9 months

    Namibia 3, Etosha NP! We headed into Grootfontein where we could stock up on supplies and finally buy Rob a cheap phone as he had lost his in Senegal. It was about time he got one and they had a good one on offer. Grootfontein seemed like a really nice town, but we didn't hang around as we...
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    Oxford to Cape Town in 9 months

    Namibia 2 Rob and I were on own for the first time in many years, after living with Robs parents who so kindly put us up to help save for this trip of a lifetime. We were both feeling excited and nervous to see how we would cope, just the two of us. We decided it would be the end for us...
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    Oxford to Cape Town in 9 months

    Zambia 2 We had just said our goodbyes to the parents, who had left for Botswana and then on to Johannesburg in South Africa to drop off their hired car (Bushlore) and catch their aeroplane back to England. We were left with just the 4 of us, and gosh, did it seem quiet. But there was no time to...
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    Oxford to Cape Town in 9 months

    Zambia We arrived at the Zambian border post and we were shocked to find out just how much we needed to pay. The visa was $50 per person, road tax was $20, insurance was 300kwachas, carbon tax was 150kwachas and community tax was 30kwachas. That's a grand total of £120 just to get through the...
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    Oxford to Cape Town in 9 months

    Namibia After driving into Namibia from Angola we headed south to our first campsite in the town of Ondangwa. We drove past a Shoprite and other clothing stores that took our fancy. After travelling on the road for almost 6months, our clothes are starting to look incredibly tired. But we arrived...
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    Oxford to Cape Town in 9 months

    Angola 2 We left Andrew and Kristinas house and needed to head south as quickly as we can. We needed to be in Zambia, Livingstone by the 17th of April to meet my mom and Roger and it was the 6th of April already. So we left early that morning and hoped the car would be ok. Rob mentioned it was...
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    Oxford to Cape Town in 9 months

    Angola 1 After leaving the Angolan border it wasn't long before our car started making a horrendous squeaking noise and then silence. The revs had dropped and the steering seazed up. We radio'd Charles and Cat to pull over to check the problem. The auxiliary bolt tensioner was lying loose in the...
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    Oxford to Cape Town in 9 months

    DRC - Democratic Republic of the Congo After finally crossing the border into the DRC, it was now almost dark. So we headed to the next village where they would be less familiar with us and hopefully beg less. It's safe to say the road was really bad and we got stuck where the water had created...
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    Oxford to Cape Town in 9 months

    Congo Brazzaville We arrived at the Cameroon border and were pleased to see it was laid out in order with signs to direct you where to go. This was incredible, most borders are a guessing game with most lacking in organisation and order. But this was a real treat. We walked in, got our passports...
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    Oxford to Cape Town in 9 months

    Nigeria to Cameroon The Afi Mountain Drill Ranch was our next point of call. This was somewhere I was truly looking forward to seeing as we had been told it was a must! We left Calabar to make our way North to the mountains. The road was filled with pot holes which made the drive slow going, but...
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    Oxford to Cape Town in 9 months

    Nigeria We woke up at the crack of dawn, 5am! To leave the lovely Songhai hotel to make our way to the Nigerian border. We decided we would avoid the notoriously bad Seme border and try the next crossing slightly north at the Igolo town in Benin. We were nervous to cross as everyone has been...
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