I’m Chris, video creator, writer, photographer, outdoor lover and overlanding & road trip fan. After many years in the digital marketing space, I decided that corporate life wasn’t for me, sold my business and adopted a remote working lifestyle. I haven’t regretted it for a single minute. My day job is a digital creator & marketing specialist, helping forward thinking brands, particularly in the real estate, hospitality & tourism space to get the best from their online presence, especially through video.
We visited Ndhula Luxury Tented Lodge, outside the small but artistic town of White River in Mpumalanga, South Africa and spent the time in one of their unique luxury tents. Ndhula, which means giraffe in the local language is located on the 765 hectare Likweti Wildlife Estate. It’s a short drive to the Kruger National Park, so is an ideal base for day trips...
We spent 2 nights glamping at Hluhluwe Bush Camp outside the town of Hluhluwe in northern Kwazulu Natal (KZN) while on a 5500 km road trip, over 14 nights through some of the most spectacular parts of South Africa. Hluhluwe Bush Camp The property, which is a few kilometres outside the town of Hluhluwe, is owned by Peter de Wit and Trienke Lodewijk, a Dutch couple...
A 2000 km round trip, over 7 nights through the beautiful Wild Coast, staying at the Storm’s River Mouth Rest Camp in the Tsitsikamma section of the Garden Route National Park for our first night. Storm’s River Mouth What an awesome place, with log cabins and camp sites right on the ocean, and a must do is a hike to the pedestrian suspension bridge over...
Gamkaskloof, also known as Die Hel, or The Hell is located in a remote valley in the Swartberg mountains in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It was entirely cut off from the outside world until 1962, when the road; actually a steep, windy and sometimes dangerous gravel track, was built. We took a short overland road trip there recently and spent a...
To mark 60 years on the only planet that we have, I’m embarked on an overland adventure through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania and Rwanda. Stopping at 60 unique places, and sharing the adventure in video & photos. But, it’s not only about the adventure, it’s also about putting back and paying it forward. In appreciation...
If you haven’t heard the word “glamping” yet, be prepared to hear it a lot more often in the future, because it’s the latest thing when it comes to camping and overland experiences. This is overlanding in style, and Africamps are the folks who brought the concept of glamping to Africa. 11 Africamps, 5000km, 6 Weeks In early March 2020 we were finalising plans...
For 4 months in 2020 we spent the summer cruising a small part of the 3500 km of the English canals. Living the narrowboat life is a slow one, best enjoyed at a maximum of 4 miles per hour, and the summer of 2020 will always occupy a very special place in my life. Here’s our story. Lockdown Blues Along with the rest of the world, when lockdown arrived in South...
We hadn’t been to the famed Kruger National Park, which was an intolerable state of affairs. Speaking to visitors from overseas, neighbours and friends, I always felt a bit like a fraud. To be writing about travels in Africa, and never having been to probably the most famous game reserve in the country, if not the world, meant that something had to be done. So...
We recently undertook a road trip to The Owl House at Nieu Bethesda, on a sizzling hot day, with the temperature hitting 40 degrees. All in order to see an unusual place. Quirky, different, creative! The Owl House is all of those and more, and so well worth a visit. Watch The Video: You can reach Nieu Bethesda down a good tar road, which turns off the N9 national...
Sossusvlei Road Trip If there’s one place in Namibia that I keep going back to this is it. Sossusvlei has had a special place in my heart, ever since I first read about it in the ’80s and then experienced through the photography of the late Getaway Magazine photographer Patrick Wagner. If ever there was a physical place in the world with a soul...
Southern Namibia and Kolmanskop Namibia is a big country, very big, far bigger than you might imagine, and it has just so much variety, interesting places and even more interesting people. Taking a road trip is my all-time favourite way of seeing the country from up close, getting to meet the people who make it unique and just enjoying the space and solitude. This...
Spice Islands of Zanzibar Beach Holiday The first thing that hits you when emerging from the aircraft door after landing at Abeid Amani Karume International Airport on the outskirts of Zanzibar City is the humidity. Humidity and, after the short walk across the tarmac to the terminal building, chaos. I was going to say “organised chaos”, but it’s...
China For Baby Boomers To be quite honest, visiting China had never crossed my mind until I spent some time chatting to my globe-trotting cousin, Liz Linsell, an avid China fan and solo traveller who runs Forever Young Adventures in China – a tour agency which specialises in taking small groups of travellers to that massive country. Regaling me with tales of...
How to Avoid Getting Robbed at 39,000 Feet Imagine the sinking feeling when you land after a long overnight flight and find that your cash, jewellery, credit cards, iPad, passport even, are missing from your carry-on baggage! You’ll probably keep going back and searching your bag again and again, just in case you missed it the first time, but eventually, the reality...
Glamping at Africamps Oakhurst If you haven’t heard the word “glamping” yet, be prepared to hear it a lot more often in the future, because it’s the latest thing when it comes to camping and outdoor adventure experiences, this is doing camping in style. We spent 2 nights at Africamps latest addition, Oakhurst outside the Garden Route village of Wilderness. So What is...