Day 37: Mudumu NP – Shametu Lodge (Divundu)

At night, an enormous chill rises from the water and lingers until the sun is high enough. Breakfast is leisurely, and the baboons leave us completely alone.

We drive a little further through the park, driving to another viewing platform in the east, but we see primarily antelope and birds. It's still beautiful here nonetheless. Oh yes: we can see a cat track along the pad for several kilometers, probably of a leopard.

What has been bothering us for days is the problem that Becky pulls extremely to the right when engaging 4x4. Since we don't know why this happens, we obviously don't know how bad it is to use the 4x4. Thoughts about it even run through our heads at night, and we try to rule things out or remember when and how something happened.

The day before yesterday, Wolle had the idea of ​​checking the tires. And lo and behold, in Windhoek, they fitted us with a different version of the BF Goodrich AT 265/65 (KO3 instead of KO2) on the front tires without telling us. We measured them: The tires differ in circumference by a more than 4 cm. Hard to believe, considering the manufacturer's identical size specifications (265/65).

Since we need a solution to the problem, and Rundu, with its TrenTyre and Toyota Pupkewitz, is the closest option, we continue driving back west.

We spend the night again in Divundu, where we don't find a campsite on our first attempt.