Archive of BMW Motorrad Club Cape (2006 - 2019)

Every year I do a solo trip. In 2008, I went around South Africa in 8 days, covering 6992 km's, and never get to submit a trip report. This year, I wanted to go around Lake Malawi, but my family protested so hard that I reduced my trip and ended up doing it as far as the South of Zambia. I started of with Day one on Friday the 18th of September at only about 10:30, because everything that was left for the last minute started to eat my time. I was heading for either Bushwhacked on the banks of the Orange River at Vioolsdrift or the Farm of Hans Eberhard in the Karasburg District, depending on what time I get to Vioolsdrift. Gideon van den Heever told me about the Martini Henry Barrels that is drilled into the rocks about 30 Km’s before Springbok, and I stopped to have a look, because it has an interesting story to it. Apparently, the Barrels where drilled into the rock face during the Anglo Boer war, by British Soldiers that confiscated these rifles from the Boers to prevent them from using it again.