And welcome to Philism 4 Wheels Best Practices. These are tips and tricks that we've picked up in three years travelling in southern and east Africa. We did a trip up to Ethiopia and back from Cape Town and these are some of the smaller and bigger things that we've learned on the road. So I hope you can learn something and it'll make your travel more fun and the impact on people around you better. So let's jump right in. The first tip that I would suggest is pick your vehicle carefully. Look at the countries you're going to or the continent you're going to and pick a vehicle that's quite commonly available. We drive it here to Hilux and we've been so grateful that this is the vehicle with picked through many events. We got stuck in Marien Fluss up in Northern Namibia and the only reason that we could get out of trouble is because it's a very common vehicle and there was some corrects around that we could take some part off and that made it so much easier for us to pay the vehicle and we could drive it out and that's the most important tip for travelling in southern and east Africa. I'm starting to get the wheel nut groove so my tip for today is use your course jack to gently loosen your wheel nuts. In this way you get some extra torque or leverage without just blindly eating it with a hammer. I think it looks like a charm and it listens to the chances of breaking another start. Yes. And now it's just repeat the same process and when you're okay don't leave any mess. Even the white gold your toilet paper pick it up throw it in the fire don't leave any mess in the nice places that you kept. That's my tip for today. Karin's best practice for when you are driving a tour road with a lot of bottles. When the road gets wider don't assume it's because it's getting better. Rather than seeing this a early warning system that the road is shut. So best practice for the day regarding roadblocks. Always have the lever fighters. Always take your head off. If you have wind losses take your sunglasses off. Yeah and but also put the musical for the sweets away and always be strictly. Do you smile and have a lot of time. Yes patience. Hello how are you today? Yes. Oh I'm fine. Just like that. Yes have a nice day. And I have too much paperwork and then you will not settle the problem that takes a driver's current having with the officials at the roadblock. In Sanjima. Then lots of models. If you are leaving your vehicle in a tropical climate especially there's a lot please make sure there's lots of it as well. Because everything that could there is no other. Leather shoes. Clothes. Anything that was really enclosed. That's all with the lot. Best practice. Number. Okay so for the past two weeks we've been implementing a new base practice and basically out one way we would rather buy vegetables or fruit from the locals. No one need the ladies next to the road rather than buying it from spar jacuz. I actually found the stuff to be fresh especially maratumata and then also we've started to rather camp at community campsites. Prefer that to a large. Not at least the long queue at the vanitare. You find the vanitare to do the new ones. Base practice number three. All under the heading of dust. Try to be dust. The door but down here. Clean out your own in there domestic goddess. Open the door. Close the door. Dust off. This will prevent all of this dust from getting out and getting out. Now don't get to get a bus dust of the turn tape pulled into the house dust situation because you can keep your busy for hours. Hours. Just necessary parts to be able to enter your house and not by the dirty. So today we are going to share our oldest base practice. We actually learned this from friends of ours. I think I named some idren in the weeds. I think a burn that I bought along. A new pack like this is a normal wine cooler and all you do is you put a little bit of water in it. Then squish off some liquid and then you can wash your hands in it. Or you can put a lot in it. But we mostly use it to wash our hands. What we do is or we use to just hang it here. And then you just wash your hands if you want to get into the cold even. Unfortunately, I have enough but hours. But you are still fully functional. Not only will you have clean hands but you also use it to sidewood. So you don't have to pack water from the tap. If 10 times a day to wash your hands but you can just hang it here. And voila! Base practice. Base practice falls shopping when you get into a new country. First thing is she has made her last to find the best shopping place. And then try and buy only one of any new products so that you can first try it. We've made the mistake of buying a few things that we thought was great and then it turned out not so nice. And if you turn a new product or a new fruit of vegetable like the mushrooms in Angola. See how the locals cook it and prepare it before you buy it because otherwise you might get weevils like we did in our mushrooms. And today's top travel tip while overlanding is now you've bought some sunblock or you've bought some cream or you've bought some sticky sweets. And it's been sitting in the hot car and the sweets are all autousticulated. The cream is running too much so my tip for today is you stick it in your e-con or you put it in your cup holder in front of your e-con and let it cool down. And then you can use your cream or you can have your sticky sweet like a fizzor. Fizzor is one of our favourite sweets that we could find in East and southern Africa while traveling. Thanks for that fizzor you brought us lots of joy when we couldn't find other affordable sweets. Best practice coming from me learning because I messed up and we are currently for Jesus in Mombasa. So what was our best practice from the last few weeks really? Oh worst mistake but now a good best practice that we have implemented is that I must be must be busy check just check out flatty flat departure times any important jobs and documents. Yeah just important days and documents that you don't want to change because yeah it's an ace that our time of arrival in Daris Alam was about 20 miles 9 and he thought we leaving to Bostani from Joburth and then we arrived two hours off to the flight in sort of the hours before. We had to reschedule and then because of that. Of course it cost us money. We had to come like leaving a hurry to get to the border at Kenya so it made our trip to the border quite stressful just but no. It's a necessary situation. So we all make mistakes but just double check that. We welcome about a third of the time on the road. With world camping we mean staying where there are no facilities on public travel land to even at abandoned campsites. We find a lot of these on the app called iOverland. By keeping to a few rules it's something everyone can do. We always ask for mission if we can. We always keep the place very clean and we always start outside the roads and towns and we always leave the place cleaner than we found it. The more your wild camp the easier you will find doing it. Just be respectful of local laws and customs. And please come back because we'll be sharing more videos on our channel. But that's a story for another time so please remember to like, subscribe and hit the bell icon so you won't miss out on future adventures. Thank you for our patrons for making these videos possible.