Because we haven’t done much today besides lying next to the swimming pool and buying petrol for the trip tomorrow, it’s maybe time to report that we’ve driven around 3900 km now. The road until now was quite good with fewer potholes than expected. Our car, a VW Polo Vivo 1.6 is doing great so far.
In Mozambique there was only a 50km stretch above Vilanculos with quite some potholes, but nothing I had not seen before somewhere in South Africa. In Zimbabwe between the border at Mutare and the Victoria Falls where we are now I have seen maybe only 10 potholes. We saw quite some South Africans with their big 4×4’s, but that’s only necessary if you go deep into the national parks, as those roads are rather terrible. So Mozambique and Zimbabwe can easily be visited with a normal car!
We still have to drive around 6000km, so we’re not in the middle yet. We heard from other travellers that the road we have to do tomorrow between the Kazungula border and Nata is full of potholes. The nice part is that people saw elephants and rhinos next to the ‘highway’.
Now it’s possible that we won’t have internet for a few days.
