So is it hard to navigate around Africa? In my (albeit ignorant) mind, I'm picturing a handful of asphalt roads, and a few signs here and there, poor maps, and that's it!
So what do you guys drive now if not the Polo? And how close to a major city are you?
Oh, navigating is easy. There are so few main roads that you can't screw up too badly. Zambia has four. Great north, south, east, and west. Finding places off the beaten track is also easy, because usually, there's only one road that gets you there, and it's named by destination. ("Luangwa road" goes to the luangwa, etc) the conditions of the roads are another story altogether. We did have a GPS, however, the maps ended at the Tanzanian border.
We now have two cars, a Volvo s40 and a Mitsubishi outlander. They're good enough for what we need to do. The polo was fixed, despite being totaled, and lived another two years or so before dying for real.
We're actually really in the suburbs. Our nature reserve is about a half hour drive from the malls in the outskirts of Johannesburg. Best of both, really!
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So is it hard to navigate around Africa? In my (albeit ignorant) mind, I'm picturing a handful of asphalt roads, and a few signs here and there, poor maps, and that's it!
So what do you guys drive now if not the Polo? And how close to a major city are you?
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We now have two cars, a Volvo s40 and a Mitsubishi outlander. They're good enough for what we need to do. The polo was fixed, despite being totaled, and lived another two years or so before dying for real.
We're actually really in the suburbs. Our nature reserve is about a half hour drive from the malls in the outskirts of Johannesburg. Best of both, really!
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I have to admit, reading your adventures all the way over in New Zealand, it's a completely different world and different way of doing things.
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