Traveling Africa Archives - Nikela: Helping People Saving Wildlife

Preparing to Overland Africa to save wildlife from South Africa to Ethiopia and back

Jul 17, 2018 · by Wildlife Margrit · In: #NikelaAfrica, Land Rover, Living in a Landy, Nikela Blog Tagged: 2018-2019, Land Rover, South Africa to Ethiopia, Traveling Africa

Today we begin our eight month journey. We fly from Dallas Texas in the USA to Doha Qatar in the Middle East on to Johannesburg, South Africa. The entire journey will take about 30 hours. This is about preparing to overland Africa 2018-2019. Why do we do this? In our small way we’re about helping people saving wildlife. Preparing to overland Africa to save wildlife in our old Land Rover requires a few things: Like securing a carnet de passage for border crossings (sort of a vehicle passport), a Comesa (third party auto insurance), updated vehicle registration, buying hard to…

VIDEOS: Wild Places in Africa you might never see like this

Dec 28, 2016 · by Wildlife Margrit · In: #NikelaAfrica Tagged: #NikelaAfrica, traveling, Traveling Africa, video, wild places

Enjoy our Wild Places Playlist right here “Thanks, I’d never see these places otherwise.” Comments like this one from Susan keeps me pulling out the camera even when we are in a pickle. Like Russ did when the elephants trapped us at the waterhole in Majeti Game Reserve in Malawi. Or I did when we hit that ‘mystery’ rock in the Ngorongoro Crater Reserve in Tanzania. In our quest to find small deserving wildlife projects, our travels bring us face to face with the most surprising wild places in Africa. We capture many of these as best we can with our little…

Over sixty: Weighing the risks of traveling Africa in a Land Rover

Nov 23, 2016 · by Wildlife Margrit · In: #NikelaAfrica, Land Rover, Living in a Landy, Nikela Blog Tagged: Chimbe village, Lake Malawi, Land Rover, Landy, Living in a Land Rover, Monkey Bay, Over 60, Traveling Africa

Traveling Africa over sixty has its challenges that’s for sure, but then so does sitting on the couch watching too much TV. “Are you alright?” His voice rings out in the still of the morning. “I’m okay,” I respond picking myself off the rock and straightening my back. I’d lost my footing and landed right on my tail bone. Surprisingly it hurts less than I expected. Are there risks of traveling Africa over sixty? As we continue down the rocky hill above our camp I realize how often Russ and I ask that question now a days. When I see…

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…

Land Rover Defender – Our African Retirement Estate on Wheels

Sep 28, 2016 · by Russ · In: #NikelaAfrica, Land Rover, Living in a Landy Tagged: Defender TD5, Land Rover Defender, Landy, Personal Discovery, RUSS, Saving Wildlife, Second Wind, Traveling Africa, Vehicle

Confidence in the bush with “all” the comforts of home. Let us show you how this Land Rover Defender became our home while traveling Africa searching for people saving wildlife. I first pictured OVERLANDING in Africa as driving our old 2001 Land Rover Defender through deep sand or muddy impossible Jungle from the Sahara to the Cape. Actually, Margrit and I spend 80% of our time on tar or gravel. Traveling to magnificent places and meeting people who save wildlife throughout Southern and Eastern Africa. But there are still a lot of raw places left. So we prepared for hard core!…