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  • Planning
    • When to Go
      • Low Season is best
    • Where to go
      • Namibia Planning
    • Vehicles
    • Routes and Itineraries
    • Flights
    • Consultation
  • Pre-Departure
    • Essentials to Pack
    • Immunisation
    • Travel Rescue
    • Training
  • On Your Journey
    • Borders and Red Tape
    • Health on the Road
    • Camping in Comfort
    • Catering & Shopping
    • Bush Communications
    • Your Bush Lavatory!
  • Resources
    • Botswana Reports
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    • Tanzania Reports
    • Zambia Reports
    • Zimbabwe Reports
  • About
    • Tjaart Smuts
    • Paul Marsh
    • Charles Norwood
  • Contact us
Covid 19 Africa travel updates

Zambia update C19

Paul Barnes reports from Zambia   Tourists are now entering Zambia again. It is a requirement that they have a COVID negative test certificate no older than four days prior…

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August 4, 2020
Travel

How to Spend your safari budget wisely

The game viewing experiences at a waterhole are often the same whether you are paying £500 a night staying in lodge or £25 a night staying in a campsite and…

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August 2, 2017
Travel Destinations

Why Tanzania is a tough self drive destination

Self drivers in Tanzania struggle with finding decent vehicles, making National Parks bookings and the high prices everywhere. Whilst there are the traditional car hire companies out of the main…

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August 20, 2019
Travel

Botswana self drive tips

Is Botswana a viable self-drive destination…  Botswana is an adventurous and challenging driving destination so be prepared for the conditions. The roads vary from sealed tarmac with some pot holes…

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March 20, 2017
Travel Insurance & Rescue

Travel Rescue is a better bet, article in Travel Africa 93

Don’t you just hate paying for travel insurance? I would rather spend the money on a flight over the Okavango Delta or splashing out on the honeymoon suite at Cottars…

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August 8, 2021
Bush Camping

Camping in Comfort

Self drive safaris are very tiring especially in the hotter times of the year and if you are camping. Heat, dust, rain, and mud combine to sap your strength and…

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December 31, 2019
Wild Animal Encounters

Animal Tails, the tuskless elephants of Ruaha

When I was a small child my Mother mistakenly took me to the cinema to watch what she thought was a child-friendly film about elephants. It was, in fact, a…

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September 4, 2020
Bush Camping

Catering & Shopping

Nowadays most African towns have good quality supermarkets where all your food shopping can be done. In some countries the bottle shop is separate so you may have to shop…

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January 7, 2020
Trip Safety

10 Ways to Stay Safer

As Andrew Pierre White succinctly put it on a safety video about driving the roads of Africa, the easiest way to stay safe is to …. Slow Down! This simple…

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July 25, 2017
About SDSR

Self Drive Safari Resource

Self Drive Safari Resource is a free content web site that offers, information, planning, inspiration and on the ground knowledge to fully independent travellers that are driving themselves on safari…

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October 26, 2019
When to travel

Low Season is best

Why Travel in the Low Season? Firstly its a better experience The “low” season is simply travelling when other people don’t which can be for many reasons. It might be…

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December 29, 2019
Pre-Departure

Essentials to Pack

The leatherman is my single most useful and versatile piece of kit – just remember not to put it your hand luggage. As someone who only packs at the last…

read more
January 2, 2020
Trip Planning

Why you need to be thinking about Safari Drive for your next safari

The travel industry is currently going through meltdown and coming through this is going to take time and patience. We will all be rethinking about how we travel and the…

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August 10, 2020
Trip Safety

Article in Land Rover Owner

Baring the soul in a high profile magazine was a little daunting. This is tough reading for anyone that loves Land Rovers and at the time accounted for many years…

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July 15, 2020
  • Travel Insurance & Rescue

    Travel Rescue is a better bet, article in Travel Africa 93

    August 8, 2021 /

    Don’t you just hate paying for travel insurance? I would rather spend the money on a flight over the Okavango Delta or splashing out on the honeymoon suite at Cottars…

    Read More
    Charles Norwood
  • Travel,  Trip Safety

    Free Spirit article in Travel Africa 92

    May 14, 2021 /

    When you have to explain to someone who has never been to Africa what you do and why driving your own vehicle on safari is the best experience and it’s…

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    Charles Norwood
  • Wild Animal Encounters

    Animal Tails, the tuskless elephants of Ruaha

    September 4, 2020 /

    When I was a small child my Mother mistakenly took me to the cinema to watch what she thought was a child-friendly film about elephants. It was, in fact, a…

    Read More
    Meregan Norwood
  • Covid 19 Africa travel updates

    Whats has been happening in the Serengeti these past few months?

    August 25, 2020 /

    Its easy to forget that the world has not stopped turning, the sun still rises over the Serengeti Plains, the Zambezi is still pounding through its gorges creating wild spray…

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    Charles Norwood
  • Trip Planning

    Why you need to be thinking about Safari Drive for your next safari

    August 10, 2020 /

    The travel industry is currently going through meltdown and coming through this is going to take time and patience. We will all be rethinking about how we travel and the…

    Read More
    Charles Norwood
  • Covid 19 Africa travel updates

    Zambia update C19

    August 4, 2020 /

    Paul Barnes reports from Zambia   Tourists are now entering Zambia again. It is a requirement that they have a COVID negative test certificate no older than four days prior…

    Read More
    Charles Norwood
  • Trip Safety

    Article in Land Rover Owner

    July 15, 2020 /

    Baring the soul in a high profile magazine was a little daunting. This is tough reading for anyone that loves Land Rovers and at the time accounted for many years…

    Read More
    Charles Norwood
  • Trip Safety

    Why travel rescue is better than travel insurance!

    July 6, 2020 /

    When you have a serious problem overseas; the medical emergency, the car accident, the crashing fall off a mountain bike, the mistimed landing on your paraglider, the rockfall, or the…

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    Charles Norwood
  • Bush Camping

    Catering & Shopping

    January 7, 2020 /

    Nowadays most African towns have good quality supermarkets where all your food shopping can be done. In some countries the bottle shop is separate so you may have to shop…

    Read More
    Meregan Norwood
  • Pre-Departure

    Essentials to Pack

    January 2, 2020 /

    The leatherman is my single most useful and versatile piece of kit – just remember not to put it your hand luggage. As someone who only packs at the last…

    Read More
    Meregan Norwood
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