Adventure Afrika

Letter to the Editor

Grahame McLeod writes:

I read the Overlanding Tips article in Issue 14 of your magazine with interest and would like to make some comments that might be useful to travellers. For entry into Zimbabwe, it may be mandatory to have a long red rectangular strip along the rear of the vehicle or tow bar. Also, when crossing borders, remember what side of the road to drive on! For Kenya, Uganda and most SADC countries, drive on the left side as in South Africa. The two exceptions are Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Here, like the rest of

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