Border Control - Martins Drift

We left Kharma Rhino Sanctuary at 7:45 and it was a good job we did. Our first stop was a Spar Supermarket to stock up in meat before heading back into South Africa.
After that it was an another 90 minutes to get to the Botswana/ South Africa border crossing at Martins Drift and it was total chaos. The queues of Lorry’s started 4km back and we followed a coal truck passing all of them. We didn’t have a clue where to go until suddenly the border of Botswana popped up and a lorry diver directed us which route to take. After customs it was over a single lane bridge and into South Africa and it was total gridlock.
The lorry’s were stacked 3 deep and queued as far as we could see and Ellie got out and walked down to see where we should be and a nice customs official told us to drive down the outgoing road passed the queue of lorry’s and then park up at incoming customs. All in all it took us 40 minutes which was good for a first time chaos crossing.Read more