Ball of Gold | Botswana Okavango Delta & Namibia Travel | XOVERLAND AFRICA S6 EP3 

Thanks for joining us for this special episode!

Definitely not a challenge for the faint hearted! Awesome to be able to do it with such a great group of folks! Definitely a bucket list experience. Can’t wait for the next episodes!

That airdown shot that switches to selecting 4wd and showing the tire rolling before you tackle a new trail was just perfect

I love the respect they show for their dad.

Woooow!! Wonderful.. Always warms my heart when Americans or Europeans who come to Africa with their CNN view of Africa realize the truth is actually the opposite. As a motswana this videos make me even prouder to call this part of the world HOME.. Thanks a lot for the great job u r doing showcasing the best of Africa to the world ❤️❤️

You know its funny, at one point someone said "we had a 12hr day today, it was fun". I think when you are overlanding, your days are 24hr days. You get to appreciate life.

Simply Enthralling,Out of Africa,Only in Africa,This is Africa.”Africa Amazes.Wilkomen Africa much love from Kenya❤

Awesome. Great to see the Roam Hilux in the convoy. Been looking forward to this.

Great to see RoamOverlanding on your episode...

14:52 wonderful video. Thank you for taking Botswana to the World. Africans are good people and very hospitable. Okavango is paradise. Hope to see you again. Peace…

*You know, NORMALLY, when I see advertising for random videos on my RU-vid feed, I skip over them as they are, USUALLY, random videos where the MAIN GOAL is too sell you something... BUT this time it was this video & I love off-roading & ESPECIALLY overland experiences & expeditions like this one. I am enjoying the episode so far, you got a new subscriber & supporter! Thanks for the videos!*

South Africa checking in 🇿🇦

My heart bounced with awe and joy when I saw @roamoverlanding joining the convoy!!!! There could never be a better guy worth the space... Grateful for yet another incredible episode guys!

Another great episode but I would have much preferred it if you guys had stuck with Chris...

Once you enter Namibia, you will never want leave.

I've been following you guys' journey guys for the past three years and am happy you came to see Namibia 🇳🇦 land of the brave and I know for sure you guys had an overlanding trip of a lifetime in our beautiful country do come back... sometime soon I will be on my overlanding trip around the world too

Awesome 3 episodes it's been thus far, nice to see our local boys being included 🇿🇦😎🤙 Thanks for the share .......

Once again you guys are knocking it out of the park! You have no idea how much I enjoy living vicariously through your adventures! Keep on keeping on!

Great episode! The meet-on-road welcome for Adrian Roam's Hilux was truly remarkable. The episode beautifully showcased the Okavango Delta in a uniquely captivating manner. Keep up the fantastic work!

These episodes are nothing short of amazing! The storytelling, the technical breakdown and the videography are all absolutely incredible! 🙌👏 Great work! Hope the rest of your trip is awesome! 🤙

You guys are a great sport. Loved how you embraced my home and seen the hospitality that we all collectively have inherently "UBUNTU". I am also pleased that you are showing Africa as it is, which is different from what the Naysayers portray us as. It broke my heart that a 13-year-old had a notion that Africa is bad and dark but there is a glimmer of hope that he first hand experienced it to change the narrative, however, there are many young ones out there globally who have not had the experience that changes that narrative but such videos do that well. Glad to hear you guys using our colloquial terms like "Braais, Sharp Sharp etc". Totally loved this journey with you guys and next time, just cater a few days more for the Port Process as there is at times unnecessary "Red Tape". But that is what we call "African Time", and after all... TIA(This is Africa) :)

My grandfather has shared many stories of living in Africa, it's great to be able to see his stories coming to life through your journey. Thank you for sharing!

Adrian from roam overloading is the best- you guys can not go wrong- griffith from SA

I wasn’t expecting Roam overlanding joining you guys… great addition.

Such a great journey with so well prepared plan by so friendly people. Looking forward for any new vids! Wish you all guys be happy at the moment while you are on your way! With love from Russia, Saint-Petersburg! Every one of you are awesome!

So good to see the team settling in and so proud to see Adrian join you all. Sad to see Dr John leave though😥

The technical breakdown toward the middle of the video explaining why the vehicles were chosen and showing the flashbacks to earlier episodes along with the gear helps the audience build a connection to these vehicles. Love it

I am really liking this series, since I am a South African living in the United States. I braai or make potjiekos with pap just about every weekend. Trying to get my kids to learn Afrikaans. I bet y'all are having a blast. Enjoy the African adventure. What an awesome crew!

You have delivered once again something so spectacular that I can’t wait until the next episode. Thank you!🇨🇦

I miss the classic sound of XO, when Woodrowgerber did all the music. Still, I'm really enjoying this series!

Welcome to the XO Crew to Adrienne!!

An incredible video! The scenery and wildlife were spectacular. I also enjoyed the technical section where you went over the systems on the vehicles. Very interesting! An amazing amount of planning and detail went into outfitting the trucks. Looking forward to the next episode!

Note to self when we go to South America next year during their summer: Make sure I can take a can of R-134a just in case. I love Adrienne's Hilux. Truck matches him and the good hearted man he is.

This is the Southern Africa expedition. Doing the eastern African expedition featuring Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya would be amazing also.

I'm so excited to see you folks still going at this. I started watching back when your 4th ever episode dropped before you were driving the old land cruiser. You have inspired me to consume most of my home state from the coast to the desert to the deep forest. Thank you for continuing to inspire

The logistics must be exciting and a nightmare! But when it all falls into place, the reward is breathtaking. Thanks for taking us along with you. Cheers Ricnard from Australia

Amazing. The story telling just keeps getting better and better. XO has come a long way since season 1 !!

Awesome video as always XO Crew. Every episode of the Africa Series has been so epic one after a another. And I've heard that Namibia is so awesome and so amazing can't wait until the next episode. Thanks for letting us ride along with y'all on y'all's adventures.

Oh wow! So good to see Adrian on here, fantastic surprise. Such a Legend! Huge fan of his content

I’ve lived in shout africa until i was 14 when immigrated to canada i miss shout Africa i miss all the hunting trips and fishing its so boring in canada as soon as I’m 18 I definitely wanna buy a house their for vacation trips

I need to get myself a new and larger head as my smile is just to big for this one. Watching you all dancing was amazing and the tour is really picking up now. Sad to see Dr John go but welcome to a new face and a man with an air fryer 😃👍😎

Amazing content!! It's almost like we're travelling with you guys!! Thanks a lot for sharing this!

Wow! What an expedition. Africa is amazing.

This is by far the best series, the truck graphics fits perfectly with the scenes

TIA . Welcome and I hope you’ll make it all the way to Morocco 🇲🇦 my home country, greetings from South Carolina 🇺🇸

I would love to join for an entire expedition, but a few days would be enough to hang with the greatest group of people roaming the world. Keep the content coming.

Incredible experience watching it will visit africa one day with my own vehicle ❤ more love to you guys for making us experience it virtually!

Another awesome episode. Thanks for sharing this amazing adventure.

Expedition Overland x Roam in my own country Namibia. I am glad i am alive to see it.

I have been watching you guys since you started this channel. Never in my wildest dreams did ever think you guys would come to our country (Botswana) My mind is blown and i am thankful to you guys for showcasing our beautiful wilderness and wild animals to your international following. I really wanted to meet you guys but unfortunately i am caught up right now. I stay in the capital city Gaborone but i got a ranch that side in the Okavango Delta. Next time yall come through let me know and we will host yall. If you guys need anything or come across any problems that side while you are there now, let mw know. My people will help you. Thanks again for coming through.

Am a kenyan, i like overland videos and travel documentaries.Your videos are top quality and kudos

Southern Africa is so unique, the people are only as beautiful as the landscapes. Botswana has such a unique beat, it is the heart of Africa in my opinion..the essence of Botswana, her people, her wildlife, her unique landscapes grip your heart forever!

So cool, been following Roam for a few years now. Suddenly he appears on EO, awesome =)

Watching from the Matobo Hills in Zimbabwe and completely enthralled by this series.

It's happened a few times, and it's still cool! When Tubers I follow from around the globe end up meeting. The world is not that big for sure. 😊

Can your dream get any better. The spirits of the universe are with you. And I am loving your videos more than you can imagine. Thank you

Very inspirational what you all do. Thanks for the joy, you guys bring to all of us who want to see the world. Greetings from Orlando, FL.

I hope the western world can see how loving n kind African is.....Thank you Xoverland. Am🇿🇦😊

So glad you get to tell the rest of the world that African is not a deep dark hole..rock on team ❤ from zimbabwe

this is one of the most beautiful episode i have seen in the series. You guys are awesome , I was excited when i heard youre doing Africa . wow

We went (more than once) to the Okavango (Moremi) in the ‘60s. My dad’s first trip was featured in a magazine in SA ~1966. My 1st trip, we (dad, his wife & us 4 kids) drove in a Triumph 2000 station wagon from Jo’burg to Maun. In Maun, we hired a 4cyl SWB Landrover, with a 44gallon drum of petrol in the back & all our gear in teh back and on teh roof rack. Horribly underpowered in the thick sand a mud Next trip my dad had purchased a 1952 4cyl SWB diesel Landrover. Same story, 44 gallon drum of fuel in the back plus all our camping gear and food. Still underpowered. My last trip was ~1973. Was just my dad and myself. Dad had a 6cyl 3L Jeep Gladiator (more power but still no jerry cans). We went up to the Okavango, then on to Chobe up to Kasane on to Victoria Falls and back down to Jo'burg via Wankie. Proper adventure without the mod cons like air compressors, maxtrax, winches, GPS ..........etc etc (and jerry cans). Those were the days of proper adventure, charged by a lioness, chased by hippos while collecting water.......etc. We’d set up camp and 4 kids all under the age of 15 (1st trip) would be free to wander around and do our own thing. It is amazing that nothing serious happened to one of us. We’d have a local guide from Maun (no proper roads then)who carried a rifle & he camped with us. These days it is a hell of a lot easier. I lived in OZ in the early 2000s and had a 200 series Landcruiser (V8 diesel) fully modded for offroad work. We did about 30,000km of travel in it including crossing the Simpson desert pulling a camper trailer (and it rained, for the first time in 15 years, for the whole trip ). Not knocking what you guys do but, it is a lot easier these days & I’ve done it both ways. I just wish we’d had digital cameras and drones back in those days to capture it all.

It was honestly hard to see Dr. Jon head home. I have had to take some time away from the adventure life over the past few months, but you guys are making it hard for me to stay away. LOL. Another phenomenal episode.

😀excellent another episode . EPIC,Justin Stark Cape Town

The smiles! Incredible experience for the boys.

Hi Guys, just discovered your channel today. Have been binging it. You guys are the best. ❤️❤️. Love from Canada 🇨🇦 🇨🇦🇨🇦🍁🍁🍁

Loving this series. I've done a lot of these tracks solo in my Prado 90 with a chart and Google maps downloaded offline 😅😅😅😬 Been lost and stuck quite a few times in the Okavango and had to self recover. 😊

another great video... the hippo and elephant shots in the beginning were awesome. The arrangement scene in RIVER CAMP perfectly choreographed and executed. The music that plays in the background while explaining about the rigs just lit 🔥. The Roam overlanding entry with walkie-talkie intro.. a well written scene and the last one...that shot in sand with Sequoia and tundra was lovely 😍. A big shout out to camera folks and editor 👏.

All I can say is: ""welcome to Nam"". I look forward to your next episode(s) and hope you enjoyed it here.

I'm always excited to watch every episode of your expedition because you have such an awesome rig and very experience overlander.Hoping to watch another episode soon.

So wholesome and purely AMAZING! I can only dream of doing this one day.

Really enjoying the series.... However, one point: No cocunut palms to be found in that part of the world.... The palm tree in question was a fan palm, Hypnaena petersiana, that has large nuts as a fruit that are irresistable to elephants. Coconut palms are a tropical coastal and island species never found naturally far inland in places such as the Okavango Delta. In fact in Southern Africa one would have to go to the Mozanmbique and far northern KwaZulu-Natal coastline to find any naturally-occurring coconut palms.... Extra point: the only other species of palm to be found in the Okavango Delta is the wild date palm, Phoenix reclinate, which is also a culinary delicacy for elephants....

Just waooooooooooooooo Goosebumps you guys are having great time in Africa can't wait for Ep 4 hoping next time to see u in Tanzania TIA💪

It's great to see Adriaan. Now I get to see why he paused his content for a while to join the American legends in TIA.

What a beautiful country! You have shown a side I haven’t seen. Thank you!!

TIA is the another best journey & adventure you Guys ever made,so inspired 😎🥳 Go further and Go a new incredible adventure again Guys 🙂 Hope you all can visit Indonesia in next journey 😉

Loving every one of this series. We overland in a Landrover Defender. Thanks for loving Southern Africa and capturing the essence of the bush. Ps toasting Marshmallows on the fire did not originate in the USA😜. Most likely in Egypt , where they were first made.

Exclusively i am very impresssed at how much work XOverland Expedition has put through this tour of botswana and namibia. I would be very much understanding if that company could establish its subsidary in namibia perhaps buy a concession anywhere in southern africa so it can adapt some of its resources to uplifting Africans who appreciate and have interest to know how to Overland whether white or black . i am not a racial person because life itself is not. Many thanks to Clay Croft and his Family while Comrade Dr John had to fly out to be other places hope see him again. So all is all settle in XOverland welcome to Africa.

Really enjoying the series, thanks for all the great narrating and video footage. Hoped you would see a bit more of South Africa but will continue to watch with anticipation for the road ahead.

Another awesome video….cant wait for the next

Another brilliant video. Keep on going team ❤🎉❤

Just discovered this channel and I love it very much. I am also glad it was a family trip which most of us don't get to do. I hope to overland like you one day and who knows maybe just join you on an adventure.

Another great quality of video filmed.

This series is so incredible!

That looks like quite the experience. I'm looking forward to seeing more of Namibia.

Absolutely loving these episodes!!! Thank youuuuuu guys 🔥🔥🔥🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

Each video of yours is better and better. It's amazing to see that part of the world and not only just the animals, the people and culture is great. "Where do these songs come from?" - "From History." I dont know why but that gave me chills. Sad to see Dr. John leave, I laughed when he started piecing that giraffe skeleton together. Great video and looking forward to the next one ! Cheers from New Brunswick, CAN.

You won't find those aircon refrigerant cans in the auto part stores. There are usually welders on the side of the road, they may sometimes offer a freon refill service. My first time seeing the small freon cans was after moving to the States.

Always greatly enjoyable to watch your stuff.

As a South African i enjoy watching u guys explore africa and how much appreciation you have for Africa and its wildlife. We can not wait to see your next episode and hope it will encourage more americans to come visit our region.Yes it is tough to travel in Africa but always worthwhile. I am sure after a few months you will be longing to come back and i am sure we will be seeing you sometime shortly, as there is so much more to see. Thanks for a great series of videos and for the good work you guys are doing.

I enjoyed that! Thankyou! Cannot wait for the next episode ❤

Masterful story telling, thank you.

This series is making me so incredibly nostalgic to be back there again myself.

Another amazing episode, having done a similar experience camping in the delta, you captured it perfectly 👏🏼

Fantastic work!👍

Yes! Love these episodes! May you and your team have a good safe rest of your trip!

Looking forward to see the team traversing Kenya.

Incredible adventure...wow....

Love , love , love, these folks. True adventurers and super nice.

This is where the next chapter starts, you in my country now, can’t wait your thoughts.

Namibia and 3 spare tyres, I hope Namibia treats you well because it can eat tyres for breakfast