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Great general synopsis 👏

What people do not understand about these old busses is that they are extremely reliable..easy to maintain and unlike most modern camper vans will not cost a fortune if they need replacement parts..

Great idea to put the griddle plate on the hob to diffuse the heat for cooking food that needs to simmer on a low heat for a longer period of time. Thank you for sharing your experience. 😊

Great info - what is your take on the best time of the year to visit Botswana for a self drive? I'm thinking mid/late October - nice and warm, but before the rains start

Very interesting video. Thank you. One question: I’d like to know your opinion: if you were a tourist from abroad on a first trip to Botswana would you go to Maun and the Moremi area or would you go to Kasane and the Chobe area? Greetings from Brazil

Yeah neh, in Setswana we say " the persons route is their mouth", you get lost you ask we too trusting here please we wont do you any harm

We went last fall in 2023. Okavango beer is so good, we had to bring a lot home, in Canada. I still have one 😂. We will go back for sure. I’m glad to see that not much change. I love that country and it’s people.

Fab summary Dude 😎 well done 🙌🏼 now for our next trip 😘😂

This has been a great series and it’s been a lot of fun tagging along from Australia. Thanks for sharing and for these excellent tips.

Great wrap-up! My wife and I are shipping our defender and Aussie camper trailer to SA in 2026 to do a year travelling the SADC. Thanks for sharing good ideas and tips!!

Can we change rubber bushes to steel bushes (fabricàte) to get rid of death wobbles

I just bought one! Amazon AU!

I keep my in my vehicle when I'm early for a job or having a break I break out the book love it❤

Thx

Darling!

So amazing to experience this wonder of the world 🌍🥰

Great place. The cost for camping Pula at the lodge?

Always great place to visit..what is the cost( Pula for SADC) for camping?

Was in campsite 5 last week.

fantastic 😊

Surprisingly it also detects r134a refrigerant.

If you think a river cruise doesn't sound very exciting, then this unique experience watching elephants cross the Chobe River from Sedudu Island to the mainland certainly changed all that for us. Read the blog for more inspiration: asimplyfab.life/chobe-safari-lodge/

How many nights was it up? do you have it out camping in it every night or just a few?

td5 all the way!

love it :D

Elephant Sands is still a fascinating place to come and observe elephant behaviour up close (and we found Hunter's Road) Here's the BLOG: asimplyfab.life/elephant-sands-lodge/

I hope this video has done the Victoria Falls some justice. It is well worth visiting the smoke that thunders, the scale of the falls is really something to be seen! And we can tick off Zambia off our bucket list, having set foot into into the first metre across the bridge (the things you do...) Here's the blog: asimplyfab.life/victoria-falls-zimbabwe/

Ik zwaaide naar die Land Rover! (automatisme)🚙

If you're new to Botswana then this might help you in your travels (I hope). These are some of the FAQs, tips and tricks and opinions on travelling through Botswana. If you have alternative ideas, or corrections let me know down below. You can also read the blog for more info and travel inspiration: asimplyfab.life/searching-for-the-best-of-botswana-self-drive-4x4-trip/ Thanks for watching!

Check out our Land Rover Activity Book (great as a gift for the fellow landy owner) with fun facts, quizzes, jokes and more: asimplyfab.life/book-life-is-better-in-flip-flops/

Check out our Land Rover Activity Book (great as a gift for the fellow landy owner) with fun facts, quizzes, jokes and more: asimplyfab.life/book-life-is-better-in-flip-flops/

You guys cheated again, you made me fall in love with defender, hope you had a blast

Hey! What an amazing trip! Thanks for sharing, I’ve been following all the episodes! So cool! My wife and I are heading to Johannesburg at the end of August. We'll spend 5 days in Kruger National Park and then visit the Maun area. Since we decided on this trip a bit last minute, we're going to Botswana without any park reservations. I was thinking of camping near Maun and doing single-day self-drive safaris in the parks. Do you think that’s possible? Or do you need to make reservations well in advance to get into the parks? If you could shed some light on this, I’d be super grateful!

Hi guys, thanks for naming all the animals most of them I didn't know, also thanks for showing Botswana, it now has become more than a name. I find it ever so cool to see Victoria drive without her hands on the wheel, she's a brave girl. I doubt you could let a Defender steer itself like that, at least in my exoeriance it does'nt work. Take care and have it good friends. Chris.

We were at Savuti in 2013 and had water in the channel

Report their licence plates to the rental company and to the game rangers at the gate

Most cars have fake synthetic learher nowadays. And personally I do not find it particularly appealing... beauty is something more about the lines, the space, the order, the simplicty... and not so much about having leather, gold and diamonds on it. A 2006 Grand Vitara is an example of a good design. Most leather SUVs today are not, including newer versions of the same Vitara. I hate these ridiculous screens... less is more.

The rear seats suggest to be for the leggless among us, although they will have a hard time finding the doorhandles way up there. 🍹🤢 😉

Such a cool experience 🥰 that leopard 🐆🤩 and the baby mongeese 😍😍😍

From a maintenance point of view and in the engine area, the Puma is really the utmost worst..

No selectable assist levels makes these horrible to use , they just try to make you go 15mph . also the throttle is not legal yet

Got a heart for this but not the price

My sister and I made it through IKEA in twenty minutes. We realized it was not really for us, so we just kept following the arrows from beginning to end. We ended up purchasing a cuter outdoor furniture set at Home Goods.

You showed magnificent restraint! I see self drive foreign tourists going off road and I'll stop them and KAK them out from a dizzy height and then report them. NO, sorry, I dont tolerate assholes spoiling it for others. Love that Marsh road along the Mbabe Depression, awesome sightings. There was water at Savuti Camp in '22.

Those cheetah 🐆🤩🥰🙏🏼🐆

Deze fiets heeft een gashendel. Daarvoor het je een rijbewijs nodig in Nederland.

That's a good demonstration of the water-tightness of the awning, but of course you never want that much water to build up, there. Why do I never see the awning set up at 3/4 or 2/3 or 1/2 height? Seems to me you'd want that option for heavy rain, to keep from creating a lake up there. The only concession to that I've seen in all the photos and videos is running an anchor line from the middle of the far edge of the awning down to the ground, to create a spillway. But the poles at the corners are always at full extension. I would think that a cowboy in foul weather would want his brim pulled low. I wonder if the tight zipper is a result of pulling something too tight, somewhere else on the tent. Like maybe you should zip that door closed before anchoring one or more of the corners... Just a thought. I'm not even sure he had any stakes in the ground when he was showing the tight zipper. But thinking about the mechanics of setup, you kind of can't zip it closed until the tent's stood up and the hinges in the walls are locked in place. It may just be a design flaw that doesn't cause a problem, because they make a good zipper! Just in my experience, whenever I had something like that crop up, it was a user error on my part. But maybe it's just a smidge off in the cutting or stitching of the fabric that got past quality control. LOL! I'll see myself out!

I NEED ONE OF THOSE, HOW DO I ORDER TO GET ONE TO CAPE TOWN SOUTH AFRICA ?

I just went there today

Wow, just wow. What a fantastic adventure, such a beautiful place. Thank you guys for sharing this one I absolutely loved it. Those boats on the water, how tranquil was that. Keep on going. 😊