STORIES FROM THE ROAD
Trip reports, gear reviews, and travel stories from the team and our community.
campfire-stories
People often ask us what the toughest part of overlanding is. They expect us to talk about deep sand, difficult recoveries or challenging border…
27 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
Some photographs tell a story all on their own. This is one of them. It was taken during one of the wettest tours we've…
27 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
People often ask us if we have a mechanic travelling with us. We smile. Because on a Waypoint Adventures tour, mechanic is almost never…
27 Jun 2026
news-and-updates
It is with great excitement that we announce the launch of the Waypoint Adventures Monthly Newsletter . Every month we'll gather around the virtual…
27 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
We have a claim to fame. Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok... they all owe us money. Why? Because we're convinced we invented emojis. Not the…
27 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
People often ask us what makes a Waypoint Adventures tour different. The answer isn't the vehicles. It isn't the destinations. It isn't even Africa.…
27 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
One of the questions we get asked most often is, "Where did the name Waypoint Adventures come from?" The answer goes back many years,…
27 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
On 1 June 2026, I began a new adventure of my own when I joined the Waypoint Adventures team. It was a big career…
27 Jun 2026
travel-tips
Part 1: Electrical Systems & Engine Bay One of the questions we're asked most often around the campfire is: "How do you prepare your…
27 Jun 2026
guides-and-tips
Wheels, Brakes & Wheel Bearings If there's one area we see neglected time and time again, it's the wheels. Before every major overland trip,…
27 Jun 2026
travel-tips
Drivetrain – Don't Ignore the Prop Shafts It may seem like a small component, but your prop shafts are critical to keeping your vehicle…
27 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
Campfire Stories #2 Some people earn a nickname. Others simply live up to it. Jock has long been known as “Jock the Rock,” and…
25 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
Seventy-three days in. One night left. The fire was the same. Everything else had changed.
19 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
A guest who never spoke at dinners surprised us all on the second-last night with one of the best stories of the trip.
19 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
It is faded, it is patched, the zip sticks. Rolien refuses to retire it. There is a reason.
19 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
In the beginning, we borrowed a caravan from a family friend and spent our December holidays in crowded caravan parks. Money was tight and…
19 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
The two hours after a thunderstorm passes through a camp. Light comes back different. Everything is washed.
19 Jun 2026
travel-tips
A series of wide landscapes with a single grey shape in the frame. Not the close-ups everyone shoots.
19 Jun 2026
travel-tips
A monochrome series shot on a single trip across Zambia. Slow film. Slow drive. Slower thinking.
19 Jun 2026
travel-tips
A small obsession that took two years to come together — front doors, side doors, painted doors, hand-carved doors.
19 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
The fruit, the vegetables, the small towers of charcoal — all set up before the first traffic of the day arrives.
19 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
A series shot in roadside workshops across five countries. Mostly hands. Mostly grease. All skill.
19 Jun 2026
travel-tips
Yes, you probably need one. No, not the size your mate told you. Here is how to think about it.
19 Jun 2026
travel-tips
A basic packing checklist for the road There is no single perfect packing list for overlanding. Every route is different. Every vehicle is different.
19 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
Apps are wrong half the time. The sky, the wind and the locals are right almost all the time.
19 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
A survival guide in five honest steps. Step five works. Steps one to four do not.
19 Jun 2026
travel-tips
Groenboontjiebredie in the RoadChef
19 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
You can save weeks of stress by picking the right order. Here's the rough cheat sheet.
19 Jun 2026
travel-tips
Drone shots of bush camps at last light. Small dots of orange in big quiet land.
19 Jun 2026
travel-tips
A solar setup that earns its place pays you back in silence.
19 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
There is a tipping point on every long trip where the tin opener becomes your closest friend.
19 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
What works, what doesn't, and why we still carry a hundred US dollars in cash even when the card "works".
19 Jun 2026
travel-tips
The Campfire Ziplock Bread
19 Jun 2026
travel-tips
Other people's overland builds. Every one different. Every one tells a story.
19 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
After hundreds of camp roasts, we have opinions. Strong ones. Probably wrong ones.
19 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
The things you reach for in seconds. They should never live anywhere else.
19 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
Strangers quietly become lifelong friends
19 Jun 2026
travel-tips
One flat is bad luck. Two flats in remote Africa is a survival problem. We don't take the chance anymore.
19 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
Eight people. One twelve-volt port. The truck became a polite battlefield.
19 Jun 2026
travel-tips
Less the bustle, more the close-up. The hands, the produce, the small still moments inside a busy place.
19 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
Some people swear by hiking boots. Others wear expensive outdoor shoes with names I can't even pronounce. Me? You'll usually find me in a…
19 Jun 2026
news-and-updates
It coughed once, cut out, and never started again. By dinner we were laughing about it.
19 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
We have run both. They are both good. The decision usually comes down to one factor.
19 Jun 2026
travel-tips
They are fine. They are great, actually. Here is what to know before the first one stops you in your tracks.
19 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
Branded stations in main towns. Always. The fuel in the small villages is often suspect.
19 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
A first-time guest, a chair tipped back to fifty degrees, and a sky none of us had seen before.
19 Jun 2026
travel-tips
A small collection of portraits — always with permission, always with a parent nearby — from the last hour of light.
19 Jun 2026
travel-tips
For thirty-six hours nobody had a single bar of reception. We thought we would lose our minds. We almost lost our card game champion…
19 Jun 2026
travel-tips
A night beside the water, a fire full of stories, and the kind of silence only Africa can give you.
19 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
Twelve photographs, in sequence, from a single morning. The truck that wouldn't start. The team that figured it out.
19 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
A portrait series from our 2026 Tanzania expedition. Always with permission. Always with names.
19 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
A year of sunsets, one frame each, from twelve different camps. The colours change. The feeling does not.
19 Jun 2026
travel-tips
The list we hand new guides on day one. Nothing fancy. Everything tested in real recoveries.
19 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
Old Faithful served us for fifteen years. Then she retired. Baraka is what came next, and the thinking behind every choice.
19 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
Most of these aren't in the brochure. All of them will make your trip — and everyone else's — better.
19 Jun 2026
travel-tips
The paperwork you hope you never need. One of the most valuable items you can pack doesn't take up any space in your vehicle.…
19 Jun 2026
travel-tips
Prepared, Not Paranoid One of the questions we're asked most often is: "What happens if I get sick in the middle of nowhere?" The…
19 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
Someone — and we will not name names — set the camp oven to the wrong heat. The result is now legend.
19 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
A confession from the people who tell you what to pack: we still bring too much. Every single time.
19 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
For seven nights in a row, the same rat. Same time. Same plate. Same look of pure, smug disrespect.
19 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
On a dusty Tuesday in northern Mozambique, an old man invited us into his courtyard. We came in for water. We stayed for three…
19 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
No tent. No fire. Just six bedrolls in a circle and a sky so heavy with stars it felt like it was leaning down…
19 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
A photo collection of the moments where water shaped the trip — Victoria Falls in flood, the Okavango at dawn, a desert spring nobody…
19 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
A year of portrait photography from camps, villages, fuel stops and trail crossings. Everyone gave permission. Everyone has a name.
19 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
Twenty years of overlanding and we have changed our mind on this exactly three times. Here is where we landed.
19 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
Three broken springs, two failed shocks and one trip we almost cancelled. Everything we know about suspension started here.
19 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
A hot mug at first light is half the reason we do this. Here is how to make it properly without ever owning a…
19 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
Forty-three border crossings later, here is everything we wish someone had told us before our first one.
19 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
After fifteen years of guiding, we have identified roughly eight types of traveller. You are one of them. Yes you are.
19 Jun 2026
keeping-it-real
Camp briefing covered hyenas. Camp briefing did not cover the leopard that was clearly standing next to the chairs.
19 Jun 2026
campfire-stories
A flat tyre on a dirt road in northern Malawi. No spare. A long walk ahead. And then a stranger on a bicycle.
19 Jun 2026
travel-tips
It was two in the morning. We heard them before we saw them. Eight of us in the tents. Three of them outside.
19 Jun 2026
