Zambezi, white water rafting: 1997

Rafting the rapids off the mighty Zambezi, a once in a lifetime experience! An adrenaline rush, from the impressive Victoria Falls, down the beautiful Batoka Gorge. Nearly half of the rollercoaster like rapids are classified as Grade 5, Grade 6 is unrunnable.

Rapids of the 'Mighty' Zambezi:

4. Morning Glorie
5. Stairway to Heaven
6. Devil’s Toilet Bowl

7. Gulliver’s Travels

 

8. Midnight Diner - featuring the Muncher

9. Commercial Suicide

10. Gnashing Jaws of Death

11. Overland Truck Eater

 

12.a.b.c. The Three Ugly Sisters

13. The Mother

15. The washing Machine

16½.The Terminator

18. Oblivion

Etosha, the great white place: 1997

Southern Africa's Etosha is a vast and ancient land of seasonal paradox. During the blooming of the wet season, this an Eden of glorious abundance in which spring boks, elephants, lions, leopards, cheetahs, jackals, zebras, and giraffe thrive. It is also an Eden that slowly disappears when heat, drought and thirst put all life at risk, except for that of opportunistic vultures.

    
Burchell's Zebras

Wildebeasts

Sossusvlei, a sea of dunes: 1997

The Sossusvlei, Namibia's famous highlight in the heart of the Namib Desert, is a huge clay pan, enclosed by giant sand dunes. Some of the spectacular hills of sand are, at a height of 300 metres, the highest in the world.

Only after a heavy rainfall, which is a rare event in this area, does the vlei fill with water. As the clay layers hardly allow any water infiltration, a turquoise lake will remain for quite some time.

View from the top of Dune 45: a trail of dust behind an Overland Truck.