Chris Prinsloo se Kaokoveld Trip

[cprinsloo]

Wie kom Jun/Jul saam Kaokoland toe? :D :D

[SuidWes]

Jaco, maak dit Aug 09 en ek in. maar net vir die

Niel dis reg, sal Jul 09 werk?

Wie kom Jun/Jul saam Kaokoland toe?

Chris, vertel ons meer :)

[cprinsloo]

Opry Epupa valle toe oor die Khowareb Schulcht, dan Van Zyls pas, op in die Marienfluss tot by Camp Synchro, af tot by Rooidrom, in Khumib rivier, dan Hoarisib rivier tot by Puros, dan Amspoort in die Hoanib rivier, Sesfontein, Warmquelle of Ondogo, Palmwag, Abu-Huab, White-Lady lodge, Spitzkoppe, Hentiesbaai, Swakop, dan huis toe.

Dis 'n harde toer, baie klippe, sand, sinkplaat, mens moet selfversorgend wees met water en brandstof en kos. Sal sien of my planne werk........

CP

[Niel]

Ek sal jou PM

[SuidWes]

Ek het klaar

Hoe lank het mens nodig

[ThysdJ]

Chris daai klink na 'n baie lekker toer. Ek is volgende jaar in die mark vir so iets... maar van oos na wes, dan suid.. Ons sal uit die Caprivi uitkom...

[cprinsloo]

Yes manne.

Hierdie is 'n 3 weke trippie. Enige iets korters soek jy vir moeilikheid want dan is dit jaag en kamp, en as jy begin jaag gaan jy jou voertuig breek, en daar is nie garages nie. Op overland.co.za is daar heelwat trip verslae van die ouens wat dit al gedoen het.

Die legendariese Van Zylspas is daar om gery te word, verder is dit woestyn en droeë riviere. Daar is sover ek verstaan omtrent in al die riviere olifante (willes wat moerig kan raak), en ook leeus (mens sien hulle nie sommer nie). Ek herhaal dat jy baie goed voorberei moet wees. Daai wereld chou voertuie en vriendskappe.

Daar is sprake dat mens in die toekoms hierdie trip net saam met gerigistreerde gidse sal kan doen, willie eers weet wat dit gaan kos nie.

Soek vir "Skeleton Coast" deur John Marsh op die web, dis 'n reddingstog wat in die tweede wereld oorlog daar gedoen is vir die oorlewendes van die Dunedin Star. Sal 'n foto of twee soek om op te sit.

CP

(Dalk 'n ander thread begin?)

[cprinsloo]

http://rapidttp.co.za/skeleton/

Uittreksel uit die boek, dis hoe dit 60 jaar terug was. Daar is darem nou al 'n paar paaie........

SKELETON COAST
by John H Marsh

CHAPTER 1
THE COAST OF LONELINESS
MARINERS call it "Skeleton Coast" and dread it. Treasure seekers know it as "The Coast of Diamonds and Death". Maps mark it merely as the Kaokoveld, which, freely translated, is Herero for "Coast of Loneliness".
Look at the map of Africa. In the lower left hand comer is South-West Africa. There in the north west of this territory, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean and on the north by the Portuguese colony of Angola, is the Kaokoveld. Our story centres there.
The Kaokoveld extends for about 500 miles north-and-south and 100 to 200 miles into the interior. It is a little smaller than England, Scotland, and Wales combined. If your map is a good one it will be plastered with place-names. Most of them begin with "O" and they include tonguetwisters like Okamborombonga and Omurorauozonju. But do not be deceived by the multitude of names. They mean nothing.You cannot book your seat to Omahama or Otjobuku. No-one will take you there nor will you find anyone or anything there except sand. The names are merely descriptive ones given by the natives-Hereros, Bushmen, Hottentos and Klip Kaffirs-to particular mountains, water-holes, and sand dunes. How they got on to the map nobody knows. All that can be said for certain is that they are more likely to be wrongly marked on your map, than rightly. Europeans have not been to most of those parts.
The Kaokoveld is almost uninhabited. The reason is simple-most of it cannot be inhabited. Apart from the fact that the greater portion, including the entire coastal belt, has for years now been a closed area to which the Government prohibits entry except by permit, the country is so dry and sandy that only the hardiest and those who ask the least from life, can exist there. A few natives alone qualify. Much of the time they live upon wild animals, lizards, roots and berries. They only live in the Kaokoveld because they or their forebears had to flee from more hospitable territory when warrior tribes, or the white men, came to take it.
So there are no towns in the Kaokoveld. Here and there, sometimes hundreds of miles apart, are tiny native settlements, a lonely trader's store, or a two-man police post. There are no roads or railways, no flowing rivers. In the interior there are barren mountains, thorn bushes, and thick, dry grass where the hardier wild animals abound, out of reach of civilisation. They include elephant, lion, and buck. Along the coast are only sand dunes, salt pans, and desert. There is no sign of vegetation for hundreds of miles. Apart from a few jackals, hyenas and an occasional lion nothing moves in this vast waste of sand and silence...............................................
...................................Nature plays weird tricks, too, along the shore. Here and there are wide rivers, with steep banks, that wind from far inland through the sand dunes down to the sea, though few people have ever seen water in them. Years sometimes pass without rain falling. Then, almost without waring, the rain comes down in torrents, the rivers fill, and the water rushes headlong down to the sea, tearing away drifts and banks and flooding the countryside. Almost as suddenly as it came, the water disappears. If you knew where to dig you might find the river then, carrying on far below its bed. Here and there it comes to the surface to run in its normal channel for a short distance, then to dive underground again.

[cprinsloo]

So 'n foudie of twee...

[Spartan]

Nee magtig man stop dit nou, jy maak dit baie moeilik om jou te like met al die temtasies

[JohanM]

Ek sal graag wil saam kom, maar soek nog eers n sponsor om saam te ry vir die petrol!!

[Scorpion]

Jinne, maar nou praat jy mos my taal! Ek dink ek moet beitjie ernstig met SWAMBO moet geseld diè naweek...