# Travel Diaries: African Safari (Part B)

An episode of [The Howie Games](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1146329262), 3 May 2026, 26 min.

Audio: https://enrichment.soundstack.com/4vjqq8/episode.flightcast.com/eo6hc266djuvbhysapbc970u.mp3

A different kind of Howie Games episode. An honest, straight-up travel diary through South Africa and the wild landscapes of Namibia, packed with stories, lessons, travel hacks, and a few hard-earned mistakes along the way. From planning the trip to navigating a place of real consequence, it’s all laid bare. How to fly, where to stay, what to see... with some VERY special guests, this one’s as personal as it gets... and at its core, it’s about inspiring you to get out there and try something a little different. Let me know what you think! Peace and love, and happy and safe travels! *** Follow the Howie Games on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehowiegamespod/ Follow the Howie Games on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thehowiegames See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:02] A listener production.
[0:12] Welcome to the Howie Games Safari Diaries, a new podcast where I'm taking you off the beaten track to some of my favourite, not-so-typical travel destinations and giving you some tips and tricks to help you get there yourself.
[0:25] This is part two of our family trip to Southern Africa.
[0:28] Now, if you've missed part one, don't worry, go back and check it out in the Howie Games feed.
[0:32] But now let's get stuck in a part two and we'll pick things up in Namibia, where we're lost in Namibia.
[0:43] This is tip number 12.
[0:45] A GPS will only get you so far.
[0:48] Hello.
[0:50] How are you?
[0:51] So you're going to get lost.
[0:53] The only questions are how many times you get lost, how badly you get lost, and what consequences you will be facing when you are lost.
[1:01] As soon as you lose reception, phone reception, out in the back of nowhere, which happens frequently, you will lose your GPS reception, and then things start to get a little bit dicey.
[1:12] There is another gate for a tuning gate.
[1:16] Okay.
[1:16] You know, in tuning gate?
[1:17] No, I've never been here before.
[1:18] Okay, only driver.
[1:20] Yep.
[1:20] Turn left, now to the rear vehicle.
[1:22] You see that gate there?
[1:23] Yep.
[1:24] You must enter the gate.
[1:25] Yep.
[1:25] Follow this driver until here, and we go straight and find the engine gate.
[1:29] Okay, in Chile Gate.
[1:31] Yeah.
[1:31] Okay, thanks, mate.
[1:32] Tip 13, either buy an old school, really, really detailed road map, a physical map that you open up, or take photos on your phone at every turn you have to take, which I found works really well until it doesn't.
[1:48] Right, that's all you have to do from here, Mako.
[1:51] According to the map, continue straight down the main road for 12.8km until you reach the base of a cell phone tower.
[1:58] Okay, thanks, mate.
[2:00] So maybe just check your distances.
[2:03] Okay, how far to the cell phone tower?
[2:05] 12.8km.
[2:05] Okay.
[2:06] And it's not like you're getting lost down a highway or taken the wrong exit on an LA freeway.
[2:13] You're on a track.
[2:14] It's getting smaller and smaller and smaller and...
[2:18] You are very lost.
[2:19] And all of a sudden, and it literally happens like that, you're surrounded by 30 elephants who are huge, huge when they're about a metre from your car and eyeing you off.
[2:29] And if you get a flat tyre on this goat track of a road, what are you going to do then?
[2:34] You can't ask the elephants, Oi, oi, out of the way, I've got to change a tyre.
[2:38] And then you get out of the car and the elephants are at a distance.
[2:42] How do you know if there's a bloody lion prowling about hiding under a bush?
[2:45] So it gets very, very tense very, very quickly.
[2:48] And there is no real solution here.
[2:49] I have no solution for you in this situation unless you are saved by another human.
[2:54] I just want to ask, which property are you heading to?
[2:56] A human who you could literally hug at this stage of the day.
[3:00] When we came through the first gate, the first checkpoint, he said, take the first left.
[3:04] And I said, that road there, yeah?
[3:05] Yeah, that was the first left down there.
[3:07] But somewhere opposite, I don't know where.
[3:09] But I'll show you now how we're going to drive.
[3:10] We're going to drive back the way you came now.
[3:12] But just keep on until we get to Encheny Gate.
[3:14] What was your name?
[3:15] Jacques.
[3:16] Jacques, I'm Mark.
[3:17] Good man, Jacques.
[3:17] Pleasure to meet you.
[3:18] We were in the middle of our own unguided safari there, brother.
[3:21] You would have got it stuck somewhere.
[3:22] Correct.
[3:23] I don't know how far you would have gotten, but yeah, no, definitely would have gotten.
[3:26] So we just follow you?
[3:27] Just follow me until I get to the next security gate, but I'll get out again and I'll just say this is the gate and you can... You're a ripper, Jack.
[3:33] Thanks, mate.
[3:34] All right.
[3:35] Again, Africa.
[3:38] A place of consequence.
[3:39] And then just keep on watching the road signs until you see the next one that tells you maybe go left or maybe go right.
[3:45] Okay.
[3:45] And we'll follow those instructions.
[3:47] And we'll steer clear of those herds of elephants this time, so we'll be all right.
[3:51] Good man, Jacques.
[3:53] All right, well, enjoy it.
[3:54] Appreciate your help, brother.
[3:55] At least you've got a story to tell.
[3:56] Yeah, I know.
[3:57] It's an interesting one.
[3:59] Sorry.
[3:59] The bloody Australian tourists in the middle of nowhere.
[4:03] Good on you, mate.
[4:04] Driving and then just watching the tourists in the bush.
[4:08] Good on you, mate.
[4:09] Thanks, Charles.
[4:10] Appreciate it.
[4:11] Cheers, Jack.
[4:12] Enjoy your stay.
[4:12] Thanks, mate.
[4:13] Bye-bye.
[4:15] Well, thank goodness that that bloke turned up because we were ending up on some self-drive safari and hit a herd of elephants.
[4:23] And just when you think you've got Africa sorted out, you really, really don't.
[4:29] So we were meant to turn left onto the gravel road, heading to our accommodation inside a park, which is what we did, but apparently not the right left.
[4:38] And we were surrounded by a macko.
[4:40] A lot of elephants.
[4:43] Like, a lot of elephants.
[4:44] How big are they?
[4:45] They're huge.
[4:48] They're right next to us, yeah?
[4:50] Oh, there they are.
[4:50] So we've taken a wrong turn somewhere.
[4:52] If they just jump, are they just going to jump?
[4:55] So that's the type of adventure you could probably do without, but this part of the world has plenty of adventures you do want to get stuck into.
[5:04] Tip 14, don't hold back, get stuck in.
[5:09] How are you?
[5:09] Nesta?
[5:10] I'm Mark.
[5:17] You can book any tour online in advance.
[5:19] Howie's tours would recommend going to Swakopmund.
[5:22] So get your pen out here, S-W-A-K-O-P-M-U-N-D, Swakopmund.
[5:28] It's on the west coast of Namibia, right on the Atlantic Ocean.
[5:31] It's like the Queenstown, New Zealand version of Namibia, Adventure Central.
[5:36] Where are we heading to?
[5:36] I've got no idea.
[5:38] Out into the desert?
[5:39] Yes.
[5:39] Okay.
[5:40] Are you confident about driving it?
[5:41] No.
[5:42] Okay.
[5:42] I'll follow you.
[5:43] So the best adventures we got involved in, quad biking out into the desert with Namibia Desert Explorers.
[5:50] Squad goals achieved.
[5:52] The kids and E are fagging out through the Namibian Desert on their quad bikes with massive, massive smiles on their faces.
[6:02] Mako just wants to go faster and faster.
[6:06] How are you fanging it?
[6:08] Huh?
[6:08] What was it like?
[6:09] Good.
[6:09] I just like wait for Skye to get in front.
[6:12] Yep.
[6:13] And then I go, and go full speed.
[6:15] Yeah.
[6:17] It's top speed's 48.
[6:19] Is it?
[6:19] Yeah.
[6:19] How good is it?
[6:21] Tip 15.
[6:22] So one of the most amazing sights, if you do get yourself to Namibia, is down at a place called Sosafly.
[6:30] It's a hell mission to get here.
[6:31] It's about a five-hour drive from the coast of Swakamun, but the roads are... Well, sorry about the puffing.
[6:38] I'm going up the side of a sand dune, which I'll get to.
[6:40] The roads are pretty rough, and there's no petrol stations for 300, 400 kilometres.
[6:45] You're on the gravel, and you're just concerned as you go that if you get a flat tyre, there's no one around to help.
[6:52] And then when you get to the park...
[6:55] It's just an endless sea of sand dunes.
[6:57] Some of the most spectacular scenery you could see anywhere in the world.
[7:01] But the last 4K drive into the place they call Big Daddy is just like a big sand pit.
[7:08] And dudes are getting bogged all over the place.
[7:10] So if you do get here, just channel Oscar Piastri.
[7:16] Put it in four-wheel drive and go as fast as you can.
[7:18] to get through.
[7:20] And then you're faced with Big Daddy, which is where I'm about a quarter of the way up at the moment.
[7:24] I don't know how high it is, but it's thick, thick, thick red sand.
[7:29] The kids are near in front of me.
[7:31] I think it's probably going to take an hour and a half to get to the top.
[7:36] But as you look out, it's just stunning.
[7:39] It's just red sand dunes as far as the eye can see.
[7:44] It is 100% worth the effort to come here and the stress with the driving.
[7:49] because it's a landscape that'll be burning your memory forever.
[7:51] You'll never forget it.
[7:52] Mako, he looks like he's running out of puff.
[7:56] How are you travelling, little man?
[7:58] Yeah, pretty good.
[7:59] What, what are you... My shoes off.
[8:01] And then what happened?
[8:02] And then my feet got really hot.
[8:04] It was a bit of a mistake.
[8:06] So what have you done now?
[8:07] Just got the socks on.
[8:08] Right.
[8:08] How are you feeling about the steepness of this dune?
[8:15] Tip 16, a really important one.
[8:18] Take four times, four times as much water on this little expedition as you reckon you will need because in winter, it is 28 degrees, summer, 40 degrees plus.
[8:28] Also, go early.
[8:30] Go early as you can.
[8:31] We stayed out in the desert near the National Park, like way, way out in the desert at a place called Desert Hills Glamping.
[8:38] Stars at night like you have never seen before and if you don't want to climb the dunes,
[8:44] well, you can fly over them.
[8:46] So, what's going to happen next is I'm going to assign a driver and a vehicle that's going to be taking you to the takeoff site.
[8:52] Hot air ballooning.
[8:54] A first for us.
[8:55] We are using very high-powered fans to start with recall the cold inflation.
[8:59] These fans can suck in your hair, they can suck in scarves, they can project stones in your direction.
[9:04] So you want to stay on the good side of those cones until you see that the balloon is upright.
[9:09] Over the Namib Desert.
[9:11] We're standing out in the middle of the Namibian desert and the sun is just coming up over the dunes.
[9:19] And that roaring you can hear is the hot air filling the balloon, which is freaking massive.
[9:26] And if all goes to plan, it's just going to fly us over the sand dunes.
[9:32] Super cool.
[9:34] You can sort this trip out with the legends at Namib Sky.
[9:37] Free fall is quite noisy with the wind and whatever.
[9:40] So if we can talk to each other in free fall, you won't hear nothing.
[9:43] Right.
[9:44] So that's why the tapping is.
[9:47] If you feel that tap on the leg, it just means, come on, you want your legs a little bit better.
[9:51] Keep it forward.
[9:52] How are you feeling about this?
[9:54] Ah, good.
[9:55] I'm pretty excited.
[9:56] A bit of a random moment.
[9:59] I didn't know I was going to be skydiving this morning.
[10:01] Yeah, pretty excited.
[10:02] Well, I think it's just the lack of knowing that this is what the day would entail.
[10:09] Let's give it a go.
[10:10] Not what you're expecting at breakfast?
[10:11] No.
[10:12] No.
[10:13] So the randomness of Africa.
[10:15] In 1996, I was travelling with a Dutch bloke called Bass and we ended up in Swakopun, Namibia and met two chaps, one by the name of Craig and his brother by the name of Shane.
[10:26] Shane.
[10:27] And these gentlemen looked after us.
[10:28] They took us skydiving.
[10:30] They took us shark fishing.
[10:31] We ran the bar for them, serving Jägermeisters one night on a very, very loose evening.
[10:36] I'm at breakfast this morning, Swakamun, and who do I see but Craig, which is quite extraordinary, mate.
[10:43] Yeah, after so many years, you don't expect to see each other again.
[10:46] And you remembered.
[10:47] I mean, wow, that's good going.
[10:48] Well, I remember how well you and your brother looked after me and Bass.
[10:52] You showed us around.
[10:53] You took us shark fishing.
[10:54] You showed us everything.
[10:55] That was a compliment because my whole family was there today, and they said, like, wow, if people remember you, you must have done something right.
[10:59] So proud moment.
[11:01] Well, and then you said to me at breakfast, will you explain what you kindly offered at breakfast this morning?
[11:07] Well, when I was taking to my wife, and she said, it's amazing that you remember for so long.
[11:11] So that's why I started up.
[11:12] If your wife hasn't done it, she's got to do it.
[11:14] She's got to have that experience in Stockholm.
[11:17] So, yeah, I went up to you and I said, guys, do you want to go skydiving?
[11:20] Let's make this whole little memorable one.
[11:22] My wife, Erica, looked unsure but said yes, but my 13-year-old son, Mac...
[11:27] He couldn't have been quicker to put his hand up, could he, Craig?
[11:30] His hand was first, yeah.
[11:31] Pick me, pick me.
[11:32] Well, mate, I appreciate it.
[11:33] I look forward to seeing the experience.
[11:35] Good on you, mate.
[11:35] Yeah, hope they have a good time.
[11:36] They will.
[11:37] Let's get them in the plane.
[11:38] Perfect.
[11:39] And if you ever come to Namibia and you want to go skydiving, you need to come and see... Craig.
[11:44] At Ground Rush Adventures.
[11:45] Ground Rush Adventures.
[11:46] He will look after you.
[12:04] It was far easier when I was younger.
[12:06] Here comes Mac, aged, jumped out of a plane aged 13.
[12:09] What was it like, mate?
[12:10] It was really good.
[12:11] It felt really weird when we were free-falling.
[12:14] It was pretty scary, but it was really fun.
[12:17] Well done, mate.
[12:18] How was that, guys?
[12:19] Oh, it was amazing.
[12:20] It's like, I can't even really explain it.
[12:24] My brain was saying no, but everything else was saying yes.
[12:28] It actually felt...
[12:30] And the free fall was great, but then the floating and the turning and apparently my landing was perfection.
[12:37] Do not go anywhere as we are about to see and hear the big five.
[12:44] Right in front of us now is a leopard.
[12:51] Hope you're enjoying the Howie Games Safari Diaries.
[12:54] Now let's get back on the plane and head to the safari capital of South Africa.
[12:59] Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Hoodspread Eastgate Airport.
[13:03] Hoodspread.
[13:04] Again, spelling for those following along at home, H-O-E-D-S-P-R-U-I-T. Hoodspread.
[13:11] Pardon my pronunciation.
[13:12] I heard a few versions of this.
[13:13] It's a small town in north-eastern Africa, often referred to as the safari capital of South Africa.
[13:20] Like you can't sneak into them.
[13:22] They will hear you before you get there and they will kill you and eat you.
[13:27] Right.
[13:29] And you know, they know that the Australian, they taste it.
[13:33] Go for them.
[13:35] Especially when they're lost.
[13:36] Yeah.
[13:37] So if they're sleeping and like a spring box walks by, will they get up and...
[13:41] Probably.
[13:42] That's a good opportunity.
[13:43] You know, with the lions, they're opportunistic.
[13:45] Okay.
[13:46] If opportunity arises, they take it.
[13:48] Tip 17, one we always try to abide by.
[13:52] Save the best part of your trip, the best accommodation, the best experience till last.
[13:58] So you go out in style.
[14:00] So, yeah, I just want to remind you the rules.
[14:03] We don't stand up or remain seated.
[14:05] We keep our arms and legs in the car.
[14:08] So you'll see when I'm driving, there might be some branches.
[14:11] Don't touch them.
[14:12] Some of them have thorns.
[14:14] So if we are in sighting, we keep our voices low.
[14:17] We don't shout the animals.
[14:19] But if you have questions, you're welcome to ask anything.
[14:22] Anything that you want to know about, please ask.
[14:29] Yeah, up to 1,200 kilograms.
[14:33] Do lions try and get elephants?
[14:38] They can try the baby.
[14:40] They can try the baby, but, you know, babies are always with the adults.
[14:44] Yeah.
[14:45] So they can take chances.
[14:46] Like, if they see one that is isolated itself from the herd, they might maybe try to corner that one.
[14:53] So what do they normally hunt for?
[14:56] They hunt anything small.
[14:58] Impalas, I would say they mainly hunt impalas.
[15:01] If they kill the cubs, do they eat them?
[15:04] No, not really.
[15:06] They just kill them and leave them.
[15:08] So the big African experience, the real mind blower, is being driven on safari.
[15:15] The way it works, you book a lodge, typically within private parks.
[15:19] We chose this trip, the Classerie Private Nature Reserve.
[15:22] That is K-L-A-S-E-R-I-E, the Classerie Private Nature Reserve.
[15:28] These reserves are not like a little farm.
[15:30] Classerie is 60,000 hectares.
[15:34] Included in the price is everything, a sunrise and sunset safari drive,
[15:37] every day, maybe five or six hours in total across morning and evening.
[15:42] So if all of them don't have it, it's 50-50.
[15:44] If they fight, they will fight, all of them without home, so it's still 50-50.
[15:51] You know, if we get stuck, the driver doesn't push, huh?
[15:54] Ah, who pushes?
[15:55] The kids.
[15:56] The kids.
[15:57] I'm paying the bill.
[15:59] My wife's paying the bill so the kids are pushing.
[16:01] Especially the little skinny girl in the back there, especially Scott.
[16:07] Free meals a day is included and accommodation.
[16:09] Now, Africa does top end like few places Ian and I have been.
[16:14] In fact, better than anywhere we've been.
[16:16] Those that have maybe dominated the crypto markets or owned some oil wells, you could spend $25,000 Australian dollars a night per couple easily.
[16:25] That is without the kids.
[16:26] This means apparently you go full luxury whilst following the great herd migrations in eastern Africa.
[16:36] Today is my dream come true because I get to show you the natural phenomenon of the great migration of the Maasai Mara.
[16:45] So for that real big crypto style coin where the animals end up each evening is where you end up.
[16:52] Picture this five star dining and seven star temporary accommodation in the bush amongst the herds.
[16:59] Mountain gorilla treks Uganda and Rwanda are.
[17:01] top shelf places, same dollars.
[17:04] But unfortunately, the Howies did not get in early on Bitcoin.
[17:08] So this trip, our big splurge was the Classery Drift Misava Camp, M-I-S-A-V-A, the Misava Camp.
[17:15] And it was phenomenal.
[17:16] Jump on the Google machine, check out the Riverview Suites.
[17:21] If you are looking at them, yeah, they are beyond beautiful.
[17:25] But for me, the accommodation and the food at these places is amazing, but it's the safaris that will be with you forever.
[17:32] So the difference between a self-drive safari and when you are taken on safari is what you can hear now.
[17:41] way off the beaten track.
[17:43] So when you're driving yourself, you have to stick to the road.
[17:45] Our man Kutso has left the road and he's just bashing through the bush in the Land Cruiser because he thinks he's seen a leopard.
[17:56] But he's, like, way off the bush.
[18:01] As you can hear.
[18:03] But right in front of us is a leopard.
[18:18] Right in front of us now is a leopard, which you would never see if you were driving yourself ever.
[18:25] So the guides throughout private parks keep in touch with each other via two-way radios.
[18:31] This means, as opposed to when you're rolling solo by yourself, these crew can help each other with sightings and result they know exactly where to drive to.
[18:45] Oh, so now we're looking right at the leopard.
[18:48] Like the leopard's a metre away.
[18:50] A metre and a half away.
[18:53] It is one of the more extraordinary things you've ever seen.
[18:56] He's just staring at us.
[18:59] And all of a sudden the truck feels a touch insignificant, to be honest.
[19:04] What can you see, Mako?
[19:12] Add the good intel to the tracking skills of your guide, which you will shake your head at as they read the bush like a kid's book.
[19:19] That means it's just the two females that left the calves and they went...
[19:24] to hunt.
[19:25] So if you look at this trek, it looks similar to a leopard trek.
[19:29] Combine that and a fella with the skill and humour of Kutso, who we were blessed to have guide us through classroom.
[19:35] For mine, Kutso, he's the Roger Federer of safari guides, next level the great man.
[19:41] So combine all that, guides like Kutso can take you into experiences you and your family will never, ever forget.
[19:53] That's the noise of the lion about 20 metres away.
[19:56] Just sort of ticking over, I guess.
[20:00] Oh, he's just... You heard the lion there and he's just stood up again and he's just walking.
[20:13] Oh, he's just walking straight past us.
[20:18] Oh, that's a lion.
[20:34] shivers down your spine.
[20:36] It's this stuff, these experiences, that will connect you and your family for years to come.
[20:42] Remember the day as you're having dinner, remember the day when that little baby elephant nearly took a wrong turn in South Africa with old mate Kutso?
[20:47] Oh, there goes the baby, Skyezie.
[20:52] Watch out for the lions, mate.
[20:54] I think they've seen the lions, eh?
[21:01] 20 elephants were rolling up the path with a baby and then they saw the lion and it stayed right.
[21:06] That would be an elephant company.
[21:08] And there's another one.
[21:08] And if the elephants were detecting the baby, they would charge the lions?
[21:12] Yes.
[21:13] They would kill them.
[21:13] Yeah.
[21:14] They would kill the lion.
[21:15] Yeah.
[21:16] If the elephant or if the lion tried to confront the elephant, the elephant will kill the lion.
[21:21] Yeah, OK.
[21:22] Tip 18, obscure and very, very random.
[21:26] So anything with thorns, they like it.
[21:29] It's highly nutritious.
[21:31] So elephants like to gobble up thorns.
[21:34] So never in your hire car run over elephant poo because thorns equals flat tyres.
[21:41] Who knew?
[21:42] Fun fact.
[21:43] And the hyena just smells the kill?
[21:45] They smell the kill.
[21:46] They've got a very good sense of smell.
[21:49] They can smell the carcass in about four kilometres.
[21:52] Four kilometres away?
[21:54] Yeah.
[21:54] There's one for you.
[21:55] I bet you didn't know that.
[21:56] How about this one?
[21:57] So in a decent meal, they can take 20 to 25% of their body weight.
[22:03] Of their body weight?
[22:04] Yes.
[22:04] And what would a lion like that one weigh?
[22:06] So I think this one is maybe 110 kilograms.
[22:12] So he's eating 25 kilos of meat?
[22:13] Yes, yes.
[22:14] Whoa!
[22:15] Yeah.
[22:15] That's a lot of steak.
[22:16] The last time I saw him, his belly was like big, big, big, big.
[22:21] So they eat too much and it lasts them for quite long.
[22:25] Is there much malaria here or not?
[22:27] We used to, but like now, no.
[22:30] It's winter now.
[22:31] Yeah.
[22:32] So, you know, all mosquitoes are hiding.
[22:34] Yeah.
[22:34] So they are active in our summer.
[22:38] We, you know, at the moment, like since the last two, three years, we didn't have a big problem with malaria.
[22:43] Tip 19, and I probably should have mentioned this earlier, like maybe even at the start, go see your travel doctor before you go.
[22:50] They all make sure any vaccinations you need are up to date and you should always, always ask plenty of questions about malaria as you do not want to get malaria.
[23:01] I was near Victoria Falls when I got it.
[23:04] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[23:05] And I just thought I had the flu and then I got really, really, really sick.
[23:09] Got worse.
[23:10] Yeah, really, really bad.
[23:14] So there you have it, a few thoughts and a few tips based on quite a few trips to Southern Africa.
[23:19] I've enjoyed the process.
[23:20] The boys have done a bit of work on it as well.
[23:22] It took a fair bit of work.
[23:23] But like any new idea, who knows what you, the most important people in the audience, will think about all this.
[23:28] Drop me a DM on the gram at MarkHoward03.
[23:31] What, if anything, have you liked about this travel podcast type of thingy?
[23:34] What you didn't rate?
[23:35] Any suggestions as to how it could be done differently?
[23:38] And we'll weigh out whether this concept is worth pursuing or not.
[23:42] Independent travel will be undoubtedly more challenging than booking a tour, and it isn't for everybody.
[23:49] Maybe you've heard this, and it's fired your imagination, and you're going to go and give it a crack.
[23:53] Nice.
[23:54] Maybe you've thought, jeez, I'd love to go and see some of that stuff.
[23:57] but it would be better and safer on a tour in my mind, or be more comfortable with the help of a fantastic, knowledgeable travel agent.
[24:03] Again, equally nice.
[24:04] Do it.
[24:05] All of what you've heard is just our experiences.
[24:08] It is not, this is a disclaimer part, it is not a guarantee, just a rough pathway.
[24:14] What I will guarantee though, if you do go and visit this part of the world, you will have an experience that you will never, ever forget.
[24:22] We put lots of details in the show notes about where we stayed, tours we booked, et cetera, so you can see all that in the show notes.
[24:28] As a little tempter, a little thought provoker, the next 50-over Cricket World Cup is scheduled to be played in South Africa and Namibia in October and November 2027.
[24:42] Yes, so that's the way.
[24:43] You go and watch the cricket.
[24:44] You take your family on safari.
[24:45] You've got everything covered.
[24:47] Finally, I'll leave you with some drums from up in northern Namibia.
[24:54] And one of my favourite quotes.
[24:56] No, not that's what I'm talking about from the great Shane Crawford, but from Robert Louis Stevenson.
[25:00] I travel not to go anywhere but to go.
[25:03] I travel for travel's sake.
[25:05] The great affair is to move.
[25:08] Peace and love.
[25:10] Oh, my goodness.
[25:10] Have a look at that line.
[25:12] He's going to go in front of us.
[25:21] Good spotting by you.
[25:23] Thank you.
[25:25] That's a serious line.
[25:26] I bet she just ran straight in front of her.
[25:30] That's so cool.
[25:32] Wow.

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