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 Our last Journey of 45 000 km begins in Westville, South Africa.
We arrived in December 1997 and it didn't take us long to find a vehicle.
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An 1984 ex-military ADE Landrover with a magnificent engine that sounded like a tractor for an very acceptable price.
Of course it needed a lot of hard work and many cases of CASTLE Beer during which time Peter quickly learned to master a lot of useful South African backstreet expressions.
But we didn't have much choice because a higher price range was out of the question.
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We soon had it rigged out and converted into a mean-survival-machine complete with all the absolute necessities.
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Water canisters, jerrycans, bars on the windows, spare battery, springs, tyres, and all sorts of parts, everything one needed for bundu-bashing and survival in the wilderness, everything but the MINUS fridge.
That wasn't in our budget, not to mention we didn't have the extra space, not even for a cooler box.
We could take 80 litres of water and 80 litres spare diesel plus another 90 litres diesel in the tank.
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Peter spent the first weeks either under the Landie covered in oil and grease, or on top wielding a welding machine, while I gathered all the secondary items like food, medicines and everything one needed for mosquito warfare. I also tried to make myself wiser about visas, import taxes for vehicles, health regulations and all sorts of unavoidable & annoying paper work etc.
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 Typical of all our travels we still had no concrete plan of where we were going. Every day we changed our plan so it never got boring.
We both finally got fed up with preparations, as there is no end to it, and we left for the south coast of South Africa, and headed for Cape Town.
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We passed through the beautiful green Transkei, the ex-south-african homeland, |
...we tackled the river's at their beach mouth's between the Great Kei and the Chalumna area to the Great Fish river, |
 ...we crossed the passes of Van Staaden, Tradouws, Montago and Outeniekwa, |
...and explored the outback from Calizdorp to Barrydale always trying to remain on the dirt roads off the beaten track.
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We reached the most southern point of Africa & spent the starry night in the dunes.
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A few days for sightseeing and a bit of Landrover maintenance were spent in Cape Town in Rondebosch with a friend. |
 
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Northwards through the Namaqaland toward Namibia the landscape gets continuously drier and opener, people less and vegetation sparser.
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We crossed the Orange at Violsdriff into Namibia, and after the first 100 km inland the magic began...
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East London
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Tzizikama
Plettenberg Bay
Knysna
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Matjiesrivier
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Ladismith
Barrydale
Tradows pass
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