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Travel Africa: Cool Land Rover Gear You Can’t Live Without

Dec 30, 2016 · by Russ · In: Land Rover, Living in a Landy, Nikela Blog Tagged: #NikelaAfrica, GEAR, OUTFITTING, Overlanding, RUSS, South Africa, Travel Africa

Posts of kitting our Travel Africa overland vehicle started Our African Retirement Estate on Wheels, then Land Rover TD5 Right Vehicle? followed by 5 Essential Vehicle Modifications and now Cool Gear. Storing and Preparing Food Hooray, if you travel Africa you won’t have to forage or survive on crackers and tuna fish! Depending on locality and the right storage options, you can pretty much eat normally. It’s amazing at the creative ideas people have come up with to satisfy needs in small spaces. Our setup includes an incredible 90Lt fridge, side wing window shelves for cooking/cleaning/recovery/camping paraphernalia, Landy items, and drawers…

5 Essential Land Rover Modifications to Travel Africa

Nov 21, 2016 · by Russ · In: #NikelaAfrica, Land Rover, Living in a Landy, Nikela Blog Tagged: Defender Modifications, Land Rover Defenderr, Overlanding, RUSS, Traveling Africa, VEHICLE MODIFICATIONS

Your Land Rover modifications depend on how much stuff you need for your choice of African Travel. Basically your travel plans, comfort needs, off road expectations, and of course your budget determine the modifications. Some people shell out tons of money for a frame up rebuild; $150,00 plus. Others add a few extras on old stock vehicles; $12,000 – $30,000 including the vehicle. Whatever you do, here are the essential modifications. Hopefully I can get into the details later. Patience! Long Range Tanks for Water and Fuel Expanding the volume of your life line fluids is the most important Land Rover…

A few impressions of Zimbabwe by two overlanders

Nov 8, 2016 · by Wildlife Margrit · In: #NikelaAfrica, Ride along, wildlife conservation Tagged: #NikelaAfrica, Overlanding, Travel Africa, Zimbabwe

Each country is different. Each has it goods and its bads. Here are a few snippets of these overlanders’ experiences. Sun baked, waiting for the summer rain. A few trees have braved leafing out, the rest of the landscape remains multiple shades of winter brown. It’s the beginning of November 2016. The locals say, “it’s hot, very hot.” People speak good English and are very friendly, even the bureaucrats. A worker at the border post calls Zimbabwe, “The safe haven of Africa, with no guns.” The heavy security gates and razor wire fences so prevalent in South Africa are absent….

Second Wind – Iconic Adventure in our Land Rover

Oct 10, 2015 · by Russ · In: Living in a Landy, Second Wind, South African Tour, wildlife conservation Tagged: #LuvWildlife, #NikelaAfrica, Land Rover, Overlander, Overlanding, RUSS, Second Wind, wildlife

Overlanding Africa in our old Land Rover is like driving a Harley-Davidson without the roar. The unexpected benefit of buying an old Land Rover to travel Africa is its iconic nature. We thought it would be more African and thus nostalgic, but we had no idea. People walk up to us in parking lots, seek us out in public places, wave and hoot at us on the road, or just give a starry eyed look as we pass by. Like any classic it must bring back memories of times past and experiences real or coveted. Best I can tell it…

Second Wind – Overlanding’s Impact on Overlanders

Mar 1, 2015 · by Russ · In: Africa Wildlife Conservation Tour 2014, Nikela Blog, Second Wind Tagged: Overlander, Overlanding, RUSS, Second Wind

Russ discusses Overlanding’s impact on Overlanders and how it changes lives. This impact was first noticed in an attitude shift of a younger couple who began their journey in Cape Town South Africa. Like most of us newbies they started out with a conquering excitement as they designed and built their vehicle, aggressively planned their trip and put out a detailed blog to keep the world informed of their discoveries and achievements. As the trip progressed their attitude seemed to soften and their posts came less often. I took it as boredom or maybe the trip was a disappointment. But…