Blogs from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Africa

We were glad to see farm land in South Africa once we left Swaziland and from what we had heard the KwaZulu-Natal area of South Africa is for some reason one of the more unexplored areas in the country. This was great news for us and the National Parks were once again our first intention. Hluhluwe and iMfolzi Game Reserves are very close to Swaziland and made a good base to spend our first couple of days in the area. We didn’t have a clue that these national parks will be one of the highlights of South Africa trip which have fantastic landscape, plenty of animals, great climate and just few kilometers away from the sea side. If you wish to escape from the touristic national parks like Kruger NP and you have to line up ... read more

Hi, here we are again, we are now at Tugela mouth resort up in Zulu land, a neat little park but very little lawn and a lot of sand, but we can live with that after Nam. We met up with a couple that we had met in Mosselbay and it was a nice surprise, I also managed to track down a old friend of mine from 20 years ago when i had a busness in Richards bay and it was nice to see him again, he now owns a major big yaght witch he has sailed all over the world, we are going up to stay in R/ Bay for a month when we leave here so i will be putting on my best charm and see if we can get to go sailing with ... read more

Day 0: Final day of packing. Really in countdown mode now (panic mode is probably a better description!). Depart 23 April at 10.25pm from Jhb to Doha and then on to Athens. We Arrive Athens 1pm on 24th and rush to bus station to try and make 2.30 bus to Messolonghi, where our friends Lynne and Jerry will be waiting to collect us and take us back to their hillside home in Panagula on mainland Greece. We are looking forward to a relaxing few days in the mountains before we head to the boatyard to begin the hard slog to get Xinran ready for the summer. Greece here we come! 😃... read more

2 1/2 weeks south africa trip with sacha. starting and finishing at babsi's and siggi's place in pretoria.... read more

WE are SOOOO loving this trip- hope you are too thru the pictures! Continuing down the “Wild Coast” as they call it, we drove through an area called the Transkei (pronounced “sky”) This is an area inhabited by traditional Xhosa Africans. There are no whites at all, and there are traditional houses dotted ALL over the beautiful rolling hills. We had been warned NOT to drive thru this area by people in Canada, but on further investigation over here, heard it was no problem to do the drive in the daylight hours. So we did. We had absolutely no problems- with many friendly waves from the locals- we even stopped at a mall- where we were the token white people. Again- everyone was super friendly. We spent one night in Port St. Johns, which was off ... read more