From Cuito to Johannesburg

Driving at twilight is generally hard because visibility is bad. What is even worse, however, is arriving into an unknown, congested dark city at twilight with chaotic motorists, motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians all ducking one another in a constant commotion at noisy high speeds and abrupt stops through roads littered with deep crators for potholes. But if you add, driving a heavy right-hand vehicle on a right-hand road (read the wrong side of the road) with headlights covered in mud and your guide speaking a language you barely understand, then you would be close to what I went through when I drove into the city of Cuito in Angola.

It is day three of a weeklong drive through Angola, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa by the land-based expedition team of the National Geographic that is exploring the upper catchment of the Okavango Delta.