While army style tents are available many will have chosen to spend the night under the stars with the night sky as their roof. The day normally begins at 6am which is dawn in the African tropics. Coffee will already be brewing on the fire which leaps into life from the few remaining embers of the previous night. Breakfast is cereal and toast and maybe pancakes if you are eating on the road.
The road trips are great fun. Huge distances are sometimes covered in a single day. Truck games become the stuff of legends – Hakki Sac, Cheat and of course, Mafia. The views and sights are amazing and vary depending on your itinerary. Perhaps you have stopped for a wee stop, girls on the left, boys on the right and are hit by the mirage you see when on the long straight roads of Namibia. Or maybe you are on the dusty roads en route to the Makghadighadi Pans in Botswana or the deep red winter dirt tracks in Zimbabwe. Lunch is a pit stop by the side of the road and normally combines sandwiches and fruit with a spectacular view.
If you arrive at your destination early enough it maybe an activity is lined up – a sunset river safari, viewing the Victoria Falls, skydiving over the Namib desert. Perhaps you are here for two or three days and have lots of amazing activities lined up.
Everyone takes responsibility for setting up their own tent if not sleeping under the stars. The group on kitchen duty gets to work while another group has general chores including cleaning the truck. You might have time for a shower – if there’s hot water – and to put your trousers and long sleeves on. Don’t forget to spray your tent too. Dinner time is a time to reflect on the day, to eat a sumptuous meal, that may have even been made in a underground oven with wood coals and to enjoy the camaraderie of your friends. The camp site may have a bar with cold beer and a pool table. Or you maybe somewhere such as the Okavango Delta in a bush camp, listening to the sounds of the African night and starring at the sky waiting for your own shooting star.
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