Importing a Land Rover

[luangwablondes]

Surprising postings here.

Just how many of us have tooled around in a landy in Africa?

http://www.freewebs.com/luangwablondes/index.htm

[Jim-ME]

I was in South Africa in 1974 collecting insects and reptiles for a professor at the University of Connecticut who was trying to prove the theory of transcontinental drift. We found 7 new species of Hemiptera which are small seed eating insects while there. I loved the country and if I hadn't been engaged to a wonderful woman I would have stayed. I hope to go back some day especially to the Indian market in Durban. I had 4 pet tourtises(sp?) which are still alive and well at UConn. Those were one of the very best times of my life.

[luangwablondes]

If you like Africa

Came across this great trip report and all its photos in Angola. And I thought the toughest and biggest challenge to overland Africa was in a Series Landy. You got to admire these South Africans.

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=269251

[jp-]

Excellent link Luangwa!

By the way, you have a nice site too. I need the answers to the quiz though. Also, I couldn't find what a luangwablond is, can you help? Google couldn't.

[luangwablondes]

Bushwalks

Thank you. Just a lot of information I picked up over time.

www.Tracks4Africa.com does digital mapping. In Google Earth, there is a feature layer generated by T4A that has all the roads and tracks (often remote tracks) recorded at this point. I am a contributor to T4A and what they call the Zambia Destination Holder. So all the information one needs to travel on road and offroad in Zambia is vested right there. The safari operators, accomodation owners and tour operators that have seen it have said it is the best thing out there and the most current. How about that, better then the guide books.

I managed a bush camp in North Luangwa National Park for a season and had a great time. Remote, few people, and lots of 4x4 territory. Loved that croc infested water crossing. The stories. Not really a place for 1st time visitors to Africa.

To help you out on that--Send your best guesses to luangwablondes at juno dot com

The website has been up 2 weeks and got sooooooooooo busy, had to register luangwablondes.

Currently http://www.freewebs.com/luangwablondes/index.htm

soon to be www.luangwablondes.com

[Leslie]

One of my friends here at work, his daughter was going on a year-long missions trip to Africa, to Francistown. He bought her a Garmin, and wanted me to show her how to use it, and to find some maps for her.

I downloaded the info from Tracks4Africa and loaded it into her Etrex and showed her how to use it, and off she went. Said it did great. Had one hiccup while there, she emailed him, I replied back to her, and to more problems after that.


It saved her once, actually. Her driver took her and a couple of the others out to a particular place, then when it was time to leave, he started off in a wrong direction, towards nowhere. She had the unit running, realized he wastaking them off to nowhere, made him stop, made him go back out the way they came, and all was well. But, they didn't use that driver anymore.

It may have been innocent, but, it may have been into an ambush, that was their suspicion. Anyway.....

[casey]

wheelman... or possible buyer.

I'm in Chilean Patagonia now, and considering buying a landie down here to drive home(Oregon), but I would rather wait until I'm farther north(maybe Ecuador, Costa Rica, etc.). Maybe we can make our interests work together, either I could drive yours to the states for you or possibly purchase it. Nothing specific in mind, just sounds like we might each be in a position to help the other get what they're after. PM me if interested.