Kgalagadi Twee Rivieren

We were up at 6:30am and my back felt much better. After a couple of coffees we packed up and were ready to leave at 8:15am and we popped over to our neighbours Trevor and Linda said goodbye and left.
Our first port if call was Kakamas and being a Saturday it was absolutely heaving. The black social thing to do is meet up around the shops even if they aren’t actually shopping so we drove into the car park over a high kerb for the entrance to the KFC drive through and out the other side and left. There was nowhere to stop so driving along I set the sat nav for our next destination, Upington which was 115 miles away.
It was literally a straight road all the way and we hardly saw any traffic. Arriving at upington it again was heaving and even though I had set the sat nav for chequers which is quite a posh supermarket this particular one was in a predominantly black area. Luckily I had looked at the area yesterday and found a mall and we drove through the sketchy part and to the mall where there was a Spar and a Chequers.
After finding somewhere to park we headed to Spar first which took an hour, then I wanted to go into a bookshop to look for a couple of reference books and then we wanted to get extra shopping in chequers. All in all we spent 2 hours shopping.
Back in the car it was 12:45pm and it was another 130 miles to our camp so we set off and left upington. 20 miles outside upington we came across a sign that said fuel 167km. That was going to be our next fuel station in the town of Askem but we didn’t have enough to get there. At 50 miles to go the fuel light came on and we still had 80 miles to go so we stopped at the side of the road and with surgical precision got the spare Jerry can off and emptied 20 litres into the tank and got going. The road was dead and we saw probably 4 cars and Lorry’s all the way to Askem.
At Askem we refuelled and had just 20 miles left of driving and at 4pm we arrived at Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. This is the real Kalahari.
We stopped at reception to check in then went through the South Africa border post and found our campsite at Twee Rivieren.
We have been here once before and are excited to be back and setting up camp we were joined by a yellow mongoose and some laughing doves that appreciated the shade of our awning.
It took a while to set up and it was so hot we decided to put both the awning sides out to keep the sun off.
Once the camp was pitched it was time to light the Braai and I made burgers again.
After dinner we watched an amazing sunset over the Kalahari excited to see what tomorrow’s first game drive would bring.Read more