Botswana in August

IhanvanVuuren · Post by **IhanvanVuuren** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 12:31 pm

Me and my father want to visit Botswana in August.

We want to Visit Kubu Island, then Elephant Sands, Kasane, and from there Moremi. Will we be able to drive with a Fortuner towing a Explorer, and a Hilux with a Xt140 Trailer.

Will we be able to drive directly from kasane to Maun with the caravan and trailer,how does that road look.

Thunder02 · Post by **Thunder02** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 2:46 pm

IhanvanVuuren wrote:Me and my father want to visit Botswana in August.

We want to Visit Kubu Island, then Elephant Sands, Kasane, and from there Moremi. Will we be able to drive with a Fortuner towing a Explorer, and a Hilux with a Xt140 Trailer.

Will we be able to drive directly from kasane to Maun with the caravan and trailer,how does that road look.

Hi, that time of the year you will have no problems, well before the rain season. The only piece of tar is through Chobe national park, thereafter it is sand tracks. Please make sure of booking.

Post by **Haboob** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 3:07 pm

You should have no problems. From Savuti there is the Sand Ridge Road and the Marsh road leading towards Maun. The Sand ridge road has thick sand at times. The Marsh road is only wet with black cotten mud during the wet period. We were however confronted with a deep river crossing on this route, which had drowned a new Vigo the day before we got there. We were three vehicle in the convoy, which made it through by pushing a bow wave in front of the vehicle and keeping a constant speed (L2 @ 2 000 rpm). This river crossing is mostly used by trucks as far as we could judge by the tracks.

Racing snake · Post by **Racing snake** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 1:32 pm

You should have no problems in August. Correct tyre pressures on cars and trailers should do it. The river crossing before Kwaai can vary. Take the short detour and avoid the crossing on the main road. In November last year it was dry. Bookings are essential. August is high season in that part of the world.

zepplin · Post by **zepplin** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 4:05 pm

The road south from Ngoma was ok up to as far as Mabele (IIRC) then it's a twee spoor with fairly long stretches of thick/very thick sand almost all the way to Savuti.
Towing is going to suck juice BIG time.......make sure you have enough fuel!!!!!!

warthog · Post by **warthog** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 2:09 pm

No problem.

We did it July 2015- convoy of 11 vehicles- all towing. Khubu, Moremi, Kwai, Chobe, Kwando, Drotsky's, Deception Camp in Central Kalahari.

No problems. Easy does it in the sand- don't hurry... And ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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