Time to start heading home.

This is our last day in South Africa, its a sad day, the trip is over, but the experience has been unbelievable. So many sites sounds, faces and names....

We returned knirken to Bushlore yesterday, I was sorry to see him go, a good friend, he had over 140´000 on the speedo, and nearly 4000km of those were ours.

He had got us out of a few toughspots, through deepwater, and some very very deep sand. I never filled a drop of oil or water in 3 weeks, some minor problems like a loose steering box, battery terminals jumping off, but almost perfect.

Bushlore have over 120 vehicles so they have many on the road. Some niggles like gas bottles with warn out threads and lights not working, but all in all not a bad service.

Would I do this trip again, absolutly, but I would allow more time, less driving, we had a mad dash to get to Kasane in Northern Botswana, and it wasnt before 6 days into the trip that we had time to relax.

We had a good day on Thursday at Maropeng  and the Sterkfontein caves.

We met ZS6HKR - Henry and his wife Cheryl for dinner at Glenburn lodge, we all had a good night.

We were up early for a suprise hot air balloon trip. (borrowed picture, but I will post my own later).

This was amazing, slowly moving across the countryside, we saw Rhino, giraffe and zebra on the trip.

Today we take a trip to Nelson Mandela square and check out Sandton. We were recomended not to visit Downtown Jburg.

Glen