I once drowned a standard brand-new Volkswagen Touareg in Botswana’s world-famous Okavango Delta swamps. I was trying to follow my guide, who was in a Land Cruiser. Little did I know then that the air intake on the VW sits just below the headlights. You really need to know your stuff here as what may be a dry and dusty track today, could be a hippo and croc infested swamp tomorrow.
I have done many solo Botswana trips to desolate places such as the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. For this trip I had decided to hook up with an old friend and 4x4 guide, Bernie Williams, who drives a well-kitted 2014 single cab 79 Series Toyota Land Cruiser V6. We were being hosted by MegaXplore, the travel and adventure arm of South Africa’s 4x4 Mega World stores and the African importers of ARB products.
Three mates and I had flown in from the United Kingdom (which I now call home) for the trip and I had arranged two Land Rovers
