well friends,
i'm back.. did i make you wait long enough..? If yes, it's the price you paid for reading a quality blog series..
The author had fancied his chances to travel the Amazon from its source to the sea when he was a year before he finished high school.
His family had moved to South Africa and he was attending the Afrikaans Boys High School in Pretoria, in the transvaal, the northernmost of the country's four provinces.
In the north-western part of the Transvaal runs one of the largest rivers of the subcontinent, the mighty Limpopo, forming borders with Botswana and Zimbabwe before enteing the lowlands of Mozambique. Perhaps because of his frustration at being unable to go to the Amazon, the author started to focus on this new river and he came up with the idea of exploring the Limpopo from the headwaters to the sea.
Thus it was a sort of warm-up project for Odendaal!! And in the next series I will tell you that how with one of his daring friends he set out on an adventure to conquer the hostile Limpopo and what price they had to pay..
