Image from the banknote 50 Maloti

Cape2Cape's first visit to South Africa: The camps are divided into 4 sections, as we had two "detours" into Swaziland and Lesotho before we left the country into Namibia. The standards of most of the camps in South Africa is impeccable and stands out from rest of the countries as camps with a western touch.

Visit 1 - Visit 2 - Visit 3 - Visit 4

To see a list over names, dates and coordinates for the whole trip, click here.

Day 1 - Safubi River Lodge, Nelspruit

Position: 25 28.071 S, 030 56.833 E (copy and paste into Google Earth search field)

Elevation: 692 m above sea level

Arrived: Wednesday 1 February 2006 : 19:30

Today's distance: 501 kilometres

Accumulated distance: 501 kilometres (165 907 at startingpoint)

Number of nights: 1

Price per night: 120 SAR for two persons

A well deserved rest at Safubi River Lodge, Nelspruit

My co-pilot Tore drove like a maniac, but no matter how crazy, we could not get all the way to Kruger national park anyway. We stopped at a nice camping site outside of Nelspruit, although expensive just for the night.

The first toast as we finally started our adventure (and I must say, not the last one...)

Day 2 - Lower Sabie Restcamp, Kruger national park

Position: 25 07.239 S, 31 54.961 E (copy and paste into Google Earth search field)

Elevation: 178 m above sea level

Arrived: Thursday 2 February 2006 : 17:30

Today's distance: 206 kilometres

Accumulated distance: 756 kilometres

Number of nights: 1

Price per night: 105 SAR for two persons

The restaurant at Lower Sabie restcamp, seen from the bridge over the river Sabie

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Day 3 - Wild Camp close to Josephsdal

Position: 25 53.168 S, 31 05.826 E (copy and paste into Google Earth search field)

Elevation: 1498 m above sea level

Arrived : Friday 3 February 2007  : 18:55

Today's distance: 281  kilometres

Accumulated distance: 166 916 km

Number of nights:  1

Price per night: Free

Scenic view from a wildcamp close to Josephsdal, South Africa

Yes, no kidding! This is what we woke up to! Magnificent wild camp close to Josephsdal

Third night camping and Tore has still not figured out how he wants the setup to look like.

Other campsite details from previous countries below:

South Africa 1 - Swaziland - South Africa 2 - Lesotho - South Africa 3 - Namibia - Botswana - Zambia - Zimbabwe - Mozambique - Malawi - Tanzania - Kenya 3 - Burundi - Rwanda - Uganda - Kenya 4 - Ethiopia 1 - Somaliland - Ethiopia 2 - Djibouti - Eritrea - Sudan - Uganda 2 - Kenya 5 - Angola - DRC - Congo - Gabon - Equat Guinea -- Cameroon1 - CAR - Cameroon2 - Niger - Niger - Burkina Faso - Mali - Ghana - Togo - Benin - Ivory Coast - Liberia - Sierra Leone - Guinea - Senegal - Mauritania - Western Sahara - Morocco - Spain - France - Monaco - Italy - Switzerland