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Deserts & Gameparks (Part 2)
Continuing on from my last blog, Deserts & Gameparks – part 1 (for those that missed it!) I had just left Botswana with the group and have now entered Namibia. And our first stop was to stay at a campsite right on the edge of the Okavango River, which feeds in to the Okavango Delta. Where rather than a pool, you can jump in to a caged ‘pool’ in the river to cool off, while being kept safe from crocodiles and hippos! The views from this campsite are just incredible, and if there is availability you can always upgrade to one of their tree houses, which are just lovely!
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Deserts & Gameparks (part 1)
I have recently returned from my Deserts & Gameparks trip, and just had to share my fantastic experience, of travelling from Victoria Falls to Cape Town. For this first blog I will just cover Zimbabwe and Botswana, with Namibia and South Africa to follow.
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Thank you for an epically awesome trip
Having just completed the 2014-2015 Trans Africa trip with Oasis Overland I’d like to say a big THANK YOU for an epically awesome trip! I’d like to give special individual thanks to the following people.
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How has technology changed overland travel?
When Oasis Overland began operating nearly twenty years ago, the world was a very different place. E-mail was in its infancy, websites were text-heavy and not laden with flash graphics and video clips, and the concept of a ‘smartphone’ was still little more than an idea being bandied about the offices of Apple in California.
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Trans Africa part 1 Gibraltar & Morocco
Here is the latest blog from our Tour Leader Joe, currently leading the 39-week Trans-Africa Expedition. It’s not too late to join him on his way back up from Cape Town, departing 9 April 2015, there are a few spots still available.
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Piranhas & Parrots in the Brazilian Pantanal
Earlier this year I travelled to Brazil and to the vast wetland area known as the Pantanal. I knew you could look for wildlife here but I didn’t realise how much I would see, it was fantastic!
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Katie's Kyrgyzstan trip (part 1)
It has been nearly 3 months since returning from my trip to Kyrgyzstan, and I still get excited any time that I get the opportunity to talk to anyone about it, and I now have an opportunity to share this experience with anyone that is interested! One of the first things I get asked when telling my friends or anyone about this trip is, so where is Kyrgyzstan?
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Katie's Kyrgyzstan trip (part 2)
…continued on from Katie’s Kyrgyzstan Trip (part 1) The day after our fun in Jeti Orguz, a few of us opted to watch an eagle display, where the trainer introduced us to his 4 times eagle champion – Tamara.
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The "Trans Africa" from Ishi (our Tour Leader)
Thinking of joining us on an epic journey from the UK to Gibraltar and then down into Morocco and the less explored regions of West Africa? 39 weeks later ending the tour in Cairo, via CapeTown. Check out our Trans Africa expedition.
Below is what our wonderful tour leader Ishi (currently in Nigeria) has to say about it so far. You can also view her blog ZebraPartyPants online and keep up to date with her journey.
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Trans Africa expedition on its way
At around 5.30 pm on a typically dark, cold and wet evening in early winter, a yellow truck pulled out of an unassuming workshop in Somerset, south-west England, turned right, and rolled off along an abandoned minor country road into the night. A few days later, but this time against a backdrop of a solemn grey cloudy sky, another repeated the trick. This was hardly a grand depart, by any stretch: there was no fanfare, in fact there weren’t even any travellers on board yet, and it the trucks weren’t so incongruous in rural Britain, no-one would probably have even noticed them.
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Trek Morocco - Nomad migration Tour
Jackie, from our UK office, has just returned from our 11 day Berber Migration Tour in Morocco. Travelling by foot across the Atlas mountains for 6 days with a Berber family, as they moved their goats, sheep, mules, donkeys and camels from winter to summer pastures and camping out under the stars this is certainly a trip to treasure.
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Books to read before your Africa Overland Trip
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Family adventure tours to Morocco & Egypt
Family Adventure Tours to Morocco
The sights, sounds and smells of Morocco make it a fantastic family destination. Explore the ancient medina of Marrakech filled with snake charmers, magic carpets and spices brought by camel trains, drive through the astonishing landscape of the Atlas Mountains and ride camels in the Sahara Desert before spending the night at a traditional Berber camp. These trips have been planned to be suitable for younger members of the family and include shorter drive times.
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Visiting Machu Picchu - How to get there!?
If you have ever thought about visiting the incredible site of Machu Picchu in your future travels and want to go there via the well-known ‘Classic’ Inca Trail, here is our advice based on what is happening so far in 2014.
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Sudan - one of Dominic's highlights of the Trans Africa Expedition
Sitting here in the shade of Truck into the third day of sweating out Wadi Halfa’s +40oC desert heat waiting for the ferry to Aswan, lets us reflect on Sudan. We’ll focus on the fact that despite having been on the road for 9 months and one day, we can still be victims of newbie surprise. One, Sudan is a “Dry” country and two, it can rain in the desert. To explain lets go back to the 29th of July and the leaving of Ethiopia.
