Campsite & travel security

[JohanM]

I have read on other forums about some travellers that had some really bad experiences with regards to being robbed in camp whilst asleep, some being robbed in places like Windhoek and others that suffered some serious losses in some of our local camp sites also and some even being shot at and injured.

Now I would like to ask, what measures do you take to be safe when camping out in the wilderness and what should we start to look at as added measurements that is practical???

Do you set up booby traps that wake you up or do you sleep with your one eye open and one ear listening all the time... Lets hear it from our campers..

[Niel]

Ek gebruik n klein wireless PIR vir die bak en kan net so malik buite die tent gebruik word (het n remote).

[Ou vale1]

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Hou sommer ongediertes ook uit ....

[ChrisF]

Outside Upington we stayed on one of the islands.

The owner walked the camp at sunset and asked that we ensure all valuable are "out of sight". Late night "others" walk the camp site and looked for easy pickings ....

[platjan]

My buurman het my die volgende storie vertel: Hulle was by een van die bekende oorde naby Brits gewees vir 'n naweek. Die Saterdagoggend sit hulle buite hul karavaan en kos maak. Hul kampbure kom ingery en begin kamp opslaan. Hulle hak hul karavaan en vertrek. 2 ure later kom daar ander mense aan en begin soek na hul karavaan. Die mense wat opgeslaan het, jong blanke paartjie, het tussen al daardie mense, die karavaan gesteel. Mense kyk nie hoe hul bure in kampplek lyk nie. Ek gebruik nou die volgende as ek my sleepwa afhaak