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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
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
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
Trip Safety, Uncategorized

Health on the Road

It’s especially important that you take your own health seriously when you are a long way from home in countries that have no National Health service, no Ambulance service, and…

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September 26, 2019
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
Travel, Trip Safety

Free Spirit article in Travel Africa 92

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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May 14, 2021
Covid 19 Africa travel updates

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

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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August 25, 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
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
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
Trip Safety

Why travel rescue is better than travel insurance!

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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July 6, 2020
Travel

Why self drive?

Why you should consider taking a self-drive safari for your next visit to Africa and start to enjoy the real rewards of the bush When I first went to Africa…

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October 1, 2019
Travel

Is Botswana a viable self drive destination?

Article in Travel Africa Magazine by Charles Norwood Botswana is an adventurous and challenging driving destination so be prepared for the conditions. The roads vary from sealed tarmac with some…

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April 23, 2017
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

    How to Spend your safari budget wisely

    August 2, 2017 / No Comments

    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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    Charles Norwood
  • Trip Safety

    10 Ways to Stay Safer

    July 25, 2017 / No Comments

    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…

    Read More
    Charles Norwood
  • Travel

    Is Botswana a viable self drive destination?

    April 23, 2017 / No Comments

    Article in Travel Africa Magazine by Charles Norwood Botswana is an adventurous and challenging driving destination so be prepared for the conditions. The roads vary from sealed tarmac with some…

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    Charles Norwood
  • Travel

    Botswana self drive tips

    March 20, 2017 / No Comments

    Travel Africa Magazine

    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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    Charles Norwood
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