“Married in the north of England, Jack and Jude rebuilt a derelict VW Van then drove this rattletrap south through the Sahara, Central Africa, Congo, East Africa until finally reaching Johannesburg in South Africa. A journey taking 15 months.”
From 1968 – ’69 African Honeymoon, posted by JackandJude Binder on 6/15/2011 (54 items)
- Not our wedding – but a couple weeks before at our friend’s wedding
- This VW van was picked up abandon in a Scottish field and rebuilt. Our honeymoon vehi…
- This was our route Wars in the Sudan and Nigeria gave us only one choice We had to ge…
- Metal worker in the old Casbah of Fez
- In Salah at the start of the Sahara
- El Golea in Algeria – Gateway to Sahara
- Success crossing the Atlas Mountains – the desert awaits
- Life is tough in the desert
- We found the many miles of desert country to have great beauty
- Beauty and contrast
- Slowly the sand became more prevalent
- Until we became bogged in soft sand – the first of many times
- A nomad at the start of the Sahara
- In Tamanrasset, Jude got her first camel ride This was the frontier border of Algeria…
- See the strips of ply, we jacked her up onto those then rolled her to firm sand where…
- The first outpost in Niger – Agadez Here a helpful French mechanic let use his tools …
- Plaited hair on the girls No roof rack anymore
- The local African butcher shop, all cuts one price!
- The market in Fort Lamy plenty of sun dried fish and little else
- The holes are created when dried on sticks
- Entering the Congo That ferry leaked as if a sieve And the gun toting military wanted…
- Our poor wagon was falling to bits and the Congo mud tracks became its last battle
- More of the same
- This colony of ants was shifting larvae across our track, soldier ants interlocked al…
- Elephant walk in Uganda, and see how the little one is kept protected
- From the Congo, a major transformation entering Uganda and finding lush grasslands
- Mt Kenya just before the final ascent
- Coming down from Mt Kenya, still well above the tree line
- The top of Mt Kenya the second highest in Africa at 17,057 feet Jude and I with three…
- Lake Nakuru in the Rift Valley Kenya, a soda lake home to literally millions of pink …
- Storks at lake Nakuru
- In those days we used a Canon SLR with a 300mm telephoto and shoot Ektachrome 64
- Everywhere at lake Nakuru were massive flocks of birds. Today man has encroached upon…
- Flamingos in flight
- Grainy but some idea of the divers birdlife
- Red rump and mottled body – amazing creature
- Giraffes around the rim of Ngorongoro Crater
- Black with beasts for as far as the eye can see on the Serengeti Plains
- Wildebeest
- “Hello,” he seems to be calling
- My best Lion shoot – Came around a grass hill and there he was sizing me up!
- Hyena pups outside their den
- This is the end of its road – and Jude’s wondering what to do with all our stuff.
- Its dirty work crossing Africa – Would love to be that skinny again!!
- Digging out and not the first time
- A bridge we crossed three times! Refused entry by white Rhodesia for lack of funds Bu…
- Victoria Falls in full flood. We had to camp alongside this for a month while obtaini…
- In Johannesburg, the mines held dance competitions between the various tribes
- Apartheid – One of the reasons we left South Africa
- Young married couple on their way to Australia after earning their passage money in S…
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