Our trip by numbers
☑️ 10,407km driven
☑️ 83 nights, 61 camping, 12 in hotels, 6 in apartment, 2 in a cabin, 2 in an aeroplane. 29 campsites (of which we had 12 to ourselves), 7 hotels, 1 apartment, 1 cabin.
☑️ 10 countries
☑️ 9 Border Crossings
☑️ E014 degrees - Furthest west - Walvis Bay Namibia
☑️ E036 degrees - Furthest east - Tofo Mozambique
☑️ S007 degrees - Furthest north - Isanga Bay Tanzania
☑️ S026 degrees - Furthest south - Hlane Royal Park Swaziland
☑️ 22 degrees - East/West spread
☑️ 19 degrees - North/South spread
☑️ 17kph - the average speed of our slowest day - 7hrs to do 120km in the Savuti sand
☑️ 15kph - average speed - 1hr to do the 15km and 23 rock hairpins up to Livinstonia
☑️ 12kph - the slowest average speed - 1.5hrs to do the 19km rock road to Isanga Bay
☑️ 9hrs - our longest driving day - in northern Zambia
☑️ 6 self-drive game drives, 4 guided drives
☑️ Main animals seen – Lions, Elephants, Buffalo, White Rhino, Baboons, Monkeys, Crocodiles, Hippos, Wild Dogs, Cheetah, Giraffe, Zebra, Impala, Springbok, Kudu, Gemsbok, Warthogs, Wildebeest, Mongoose, Buffalo, Ostrich and loads of other birds.
☑️ 5 waterfalls - Victoria, Ngonye, Kalumbo, Matenga and Malolotja
☑️ 5 days surfing
☑️ 4 scuba dives seeing Shark, Stingray, Moray Eel, Octopus, Lobster, Shrimp, and zillions of reef fish of unknown name. Heard Humpback Whales singing and saw them from boat, shore and surf board.
☑️ 4 stretches of road that were more than single carriageway – A new 6 lane motorway north of Windhoek being built by the Chinese, a new dual carriageway between Tete and Inchope recently built by the Chinese, sections being built in Swaziland from the airport to the capital and not surprisingly a big chunk in South Africa.
☑️ 3 boat day trips – Mokoro in Okavango Delta, speed boat to Bazaruto Archipelago, Dhow to Pansy and Pig Islands
☑️ 2 oceans - Atlantic and Indian
☑️ 2 lakes - Tanganyika and Malawi
☑️ 2 sunset cruises on the Chobe and Zambezi Rivers
☑️ 2 scenic flights, light aircraft over the Okavango Delta, helicopter over Vic Falls
☑️ 2 times we crossed the Tropic of Capricorn
☑️ 2 incidents of theft – baboons/pork chops, monkey/salt and vinegar crisps
☑️ 2 bribery attempts – both “have you got a drink for me?” – both avoided
☑️ 2 land cruisers
☑️ 1 Speeding fine
☑️ 1 Speeding caution
☑️ 1 - the number of times we had to fill the wash bottle – our only maintenance intervention in over 10,000km!
☑️ 0 the number of times the Land Cruiser failed us or got stuck.
☑️ 0 the number of ml of oil and coolant used in 11 weeks.