Tom and Jana at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Our trip started and ended in Johannesburg, South Africa, and included Moremi Game Reserve and Chobe National Park in Botswana, and Victoria Falls in Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Credit for the text of this journal, as usual, goes to Jana, who always keeps excellent records when we travel. She also managed to keep track of all the paperwork associated with the rental vehicle, park and campsite information, and border crossings. Tom did most of the driving this time, so Jana was also tasked with navigation, which included marking and plotting on our hand-held GPS unit.
This journal is rather text heavy this time. We have tried to include detailed border crossing information that might be useful to people who plan to make a similar trip, but such detail will be of little interest to the casual reader. Reading trip reports from other self-drive adventurers was hugely helpful to us, so we are trying to contribute what we can. Some of the resources we found particularly helpful in planning this trip are linked at the bottom of this page.
Tom, the Webmaster
Jana, the Author
Wild Dogs have an excellent Botswana self-drive trip report from June 2007.
SA 4x4 Community Forum is a good discussion forum for Botswana and other southern Africa destinations.
The Overland Forum is another good forum for Botswana and
southern Africa.
Fodors forums can be helpful planning your trip.
Trip Advisor often has something useful in their forum.
Bruce Muirhead has some great photos from his self-drive trip August-September 2007.