Can you cross Africa in a stock 4x4? — featuring ASPW 4xOverland

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0:29 it's this is camp quazi on the banks of the samb Bey River 40 km I would say west of the town of Livingstone um most luxury lodges and this is a fairly luxury Lodge not I doesn't it doesn't look like really really highend kind of middle um

0:55 normally they don't offer camping this one is does and we're camping and and that's actually quite nice most are too snobby campers no not at our lodge uh they even offer a cup of coffee to the campus that come down to the reception it's quite nice border post

1:21 yesterday my advice to you if you're going through Zambia keep a cool head especially if you're going through one of the larger border posts I thought we were going through one of the small ones kasung goua it is one of the smaller ones but it's one of the hectic ones the ferry Crossing cost 200 Pula

1:39 the uh visas two UK passport visas uh There Was 80 each uh US Dollars um Double Entry visas we were then taken for quite a bit of money for a total of five different forms and these were the forms the Zam be a revenue Authority for temporary importation of the vehicle this is the

2:08 um I think this was a road tax form then there's a carbon tax form uh of course I had to have the vehicle registration then there's a district council tax form and then this one which is the insurance form I actually had to cross the border walk across the border to go and purchase this insurance the total

2:33 cost was I guess about um I haven't actually counted the exact amount about $350 US to get through that border post so an expensive morning but Zambia as you can see is promising to be absolutely beautiful today we're heading up North

2:58 actually Northwest to some Falls that have been um described to me as imagine Victoria Falls without all the tourists and without all the the people trying to sell you curios well those are the Falls that we're going to today but first things first I have to clean up this diesel spill biggest problem of course is to

3:23 sort out the the dieseline problem um I'm going to send Kate in there with this um water doesn't really help it just spreads it around I was I was sleeping and I could smell dieseline the whole night and amongst all the line calls and the hippos which made up for it but I've got to try and get rid of the smell so I

3:46 don't know why these things don't normally leak but this one is leaking so uh my advice carrying fuel steel steel steel steel and if you can't get steel don't carry fuel because the other danger of course with with plastic it can it can rub through maybe on a boat it's okay but I say so now I'm going to

4:04 decant I put on a dirty shirt in case I spill and I'm going to get rid of this diesel right now heading west uh to Theon Falls which are supposed to be spectacular also part of the zambesi and the road is not what I expected now it's so easy to get this

4:30 wrong when estimating times you know you look up yes the road from A to B is tar this road all the way to um lure Plains it's tar but this tar is actually slower than a good gravel road so when calculating times it's actually impossible to know and to and it's wrong

4:55 to assume that a tar Road you will be able to maintain 80 90 or 100 km an hour for the last hour and a half we've probably been averaging about 40 km an hour anyway uh guo Falls is supposed to be the second Victoria Falls and in fact I've even read in lowly planet guide is something like imagine the Victoria

5:18 Falls without all of the uh tourists well I'm looking forward to saying it we're at inona Fall's reception and it has a rather eclectic array of locally acquired ornaments to get to the falls means a walk and it turns out we have our own

5:43 guide well it's uh it's 36° and it looks like it's a bit of a walk and uh the water level looks quite low here as well which is no [Applause] surprise [Applause] as we're getting a bit closer the wow factor

6:08 is getting larger one thing there it's got a long walk take water we didn't take water we weren't told how long the walk was is so uh we didn't take water oh man this is [Music] unbelievable why don't people more people know about

6:35 this like Victoria Falls without the tourists he I read this in the Lonely Planet guide a bigger overstatement I can't imagine andona Falls is about 300 km Upstream from Victoria Falls I'm trying to imagine what these Falls would be like if the water level was even at its normal

7:01 levelon Falls has been formed by the same geological processes as Victoria with cracks in the Bassel being eroded to form the drop their height is only about 10 to 25 M but with a width comparable to Victoria there are in fact seven separate waterfalls definitely worth the walk definitely you're going to need

7:28 water to carry water with you um it's not a particularly long walk but at 30 36° it's quite a long walk worth coming here it's an ideal spot if you're going up to lure Plains from Livingston it's not quite halfway but it's the perfect stop off and an amazing Place back in Camp and it's time to

7:52 break out some mosquito repellent and a new product that I've been asked to test it's called bugger off that's clever bugger off it's a natural um mosquito stuff definitely citronella and it's supposed to ward off mosquitoes however I've got something else that I think we should try uh I got

8:20 you a green one perfect okay perfect these are they're called parakito they are armbands or ankle bands brace I suppose you could use it for anything each pack comes with two citronella cartridges said to ward off biting insects for up to 2 weeks so now I am going to try this and

8:47 I'm going to wear this and see if I can ward off mosquito bites because I got bitten twice yesterday we shall report back later in the Expedition and tell you how well they're working by counting the mosquito bites on various parts of our [Music]

9:16 bodies yesterday was a complete surprise again we have failed to set up the campsite that I really wanted to and that was I wanted a campsite on the banks of the zamb Bey well there she is but campsites quite you know kilometer half a kilometer Inland at the community campsite here no no possibility en

9:40 camping anywhere close to this River this volcanic rock is uh impossible it's difficult enough to walk on let alone to drive on but there she is today we head Northwest further to L PLS one of the the main reasons for this expedition was not just to discover the Wonder and beauty of Zambia but to prove

10:07 once and for all that it's just not necessary to spend lots of money on accessories and kit and that a stock 4x4 is all that is needed for a wonderful 4x4 Bush experience we've equipped this vehicle in a minimalist way just what's necessary and no and in the following episodes you'll be

10:32 finding out how we did it but what an amazing campsite ta