Excellent VeeR, what vehicle were you in? The modern Toyota I have reserved for September I feel may not be suitable for game drives & I'd be better with a Land Rover.

Hey Nico!.....Decisions! Decisions!

Kipper -

At Duba Plains we used two vehicles. The newer vehicle didn't have a canopy and I was frying on the afternoon drives, so we used it for our private drives in the mornings and shared with a great couple in the afternoons. Our first evening drive was private, in the newer vehicle which sat lower than the older ones - I had a problem with the watercrossings in the dark as the vehicle was awash and I never felt so utterly alone.(read that - in a total panic) No problem the next evening in the higher vehicle and more people around. Both vehicles were Land Rovers.

we have had a similar discussion before.

View [URL=http://www.bushdrums.com/forum/showthread.php?id=185]Landrover or Landcruiser[/URL]

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It's the Toyota Hilux from Britz, Landcruiser would be fine but the new double cab Hilux seems to have very small windows, tried one a couple of weeks back.

Thanks for that VeeR - I had trouble down loading them but managed to view them.
2000 photos to go through - that is a lot; looks like he spent more time looking through the camera hole than the window of the car.

Land cruisers are great cars - and perhaps the best to use in Africa as spares are cheaper and eaier to find. The good old Japanes... however I am still very much attahced to the classic Land Rover; great for massaging kidneys and crushing them but they are Numero Uno - I hope now that they are owned by an Indian company; the classical LR image will not change.

Forget the windows Kipper - you should be sitting on the bonet like to good old days with John Wayne and Harry Kruger in the 1960's film Hatari - filmed in Tanzania.

Any of you ever see that film?

Landrover owned by an indian company??

As far as I know Rover was bought by BMW