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A NASTY AVOIDED

On a recent four-week safari starting in Durban, and heading through Botswana’s and Zimbabwe main parks, SA4x4 reader and regular contributor Zac Graham and his travelling companions encountered only two nasty incidents of theft: both of them in South Africa. This is an extract from Zac’s story…

“I met Peter and Lyn a day before we started the trip. Lyn had been in South Africa for a few weeks and had persuaded Peter to fly out from Perth to join her on a month-long safari. Our mutual friend, Joan, had suggested that Lyn ask me for advice on travelling in Botswana, and so she’d phoned me. The upshot of our conversation was that I would rent them my fully equipped Pajero and would introduce them to the vehicle… and off they’d go. It was while Peter and I were anchoring the newly-acquired rooftop-tent and awning, that Lyn said, “Don’t you want to come along, Zac?”

“I’d come along at the drop of a hat.”

“Where’s a hat?”

So I passed her my hat, and she dropped it.

The first full day was easy; around