Red Sands Country Lodge

I was woken at 5:10am by car doors closing. Normally I’d have been annoyed by this but today I was grateful. I wanted to be up and out of here by 6:30am if possible.
I opened the caravan door and the middle of the campsite had a lake in it. People were up tipping water off of the awnings and tents so I was glad we’d put ours away.
I got the chairs out the back of the car where we had stowed them to keep dry and then made coffees.
After coffee we efficiently put everything away and even in the wet sand we could push the caravan 90° to be able to hook it up to the car, then at 6:20am we left Kgalagadi.
Upington was our next destination and we got there at 9:20am after a 100 mile journey and our first stop was 4x4 mega world for some spare guy lined and pegs. Then we went to Midas, which is go to place for car stuff and got some new car seat organisers and various other bits. Then we went to the safari centre where we had a new awning rail fitted on the outside of the trailer for our new awning and picked up some new led lights. Then we went to the mall to get food shopping for 4 days.
Our next stop was red sands country lodge, a place we had seen many times on YouTube and it took us nearly 4 hours to reach it on a journey of 264km. Even Ellie had a sleep on the way.
We got to the lodge at 3:30pm, checked in where we were greeted with an iced roobois tea and alpacas roaming free. Ellie was in her element.
We found our camp, quickly pitched up and then sorted our shopping out. 30 minutes after setting up we decided to put the storm tarpaulin on just incase as it was thundering. Then it was time to relax.
At 6pm we had tea of chicken salad and then it was time to get cleaned up un the shower before bed.Läs mer