Where is Bhanga Nek exactly? Well it’s definitely not a easy place to find. Basically if you head north along the coast towards the Mozambique border there are a series of estuarine lakes, which form part of the Greater St. Lucia Wetlands Park. Bhanga Nek is the spit of land which separates the sea from the lakes. It’s a very out of the way place with access from Manguzi settlement down a series of seriously rough roads which turn into deep sandy tracks. It’s only accessible by 4WD vehicles and you can see why. It takes low range with diff lock [View Full Entry]

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01.10.2007 - 22.45 - unsere Reise startet mit einem 10-stuendigen Flug nach Johannesburg und dann weiter nach Durban. Es ist 14.00 Uhr wir sind muede und muessen noch unser Mietauto abholen. Leider ist es noch nicht bereit, sodass wir zuerst mal warten muessen. Irgendwann kommt es dann, ein Pick-Up mit 4x4, wie gebucht. Schliesslich wollen wir in den Busch, da brauchts ein richtiges Auto. Doch die Reifen sind schon so abgenutzt, dass wir vermutlich nicht weit kommen wuerden. Im Depot hat's noch einen Anderen mit guten Reifen - das dauert aber nochmals 1 Stunde. Bei diesem Wagen funktioniert da [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everybody! Just wanted to let you know that I am safe and healthy in St. Lucia South Africa. Sorry about not emailing or updating- It has been super busy with no internet access and non-stop traveling. Let me give you an update: I think I last emailed from Maun... or was it Jo'burg???? Well... I am going to say it was Jo'burg... So I survived my two nights in Jo'burg. The first night we stayed in Mufasa Backpackers on the outskirts of town- nothing too exciting to tell you about. The next morning Marnie and I went with Sarah and [View Full Entry]

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St Lucia We left Swaziland for St. Lucia and made sure we stuck to the main roads, although we had a much busier border crossing with big queues. St. Lucia town is a little strip of restaurants, shops and hotels. We checked into our flat and met Debbie the crazy dog lover who works in the Stokkiesdraai office. We opened our apartment to find it could sleep 6 and had a lovely view of the wetlands. Debbie warned us not to venture too far down our garden in the evening, just in case we bumped into any crocs or hippos lurking [View Full Entry]

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The past 3 days (after leaving Kruger on 21 April) were spent relaxing in beautiful St. Lucia on the Elephant Coast (South Africa's NE coast to the layman). Driving from Kruger to St. Lucia was quite the experience--lots and lots of sugarcane fields, people walking, hitching, and selling pineapples, eucalyptus syrup, and avocados (which apparently grow like weeds), cattle, goats and sheep grazing right alongside (and crossing) the roads (another reason not to drive at night), the mainstreets of run-down, mostly black cities with their markets selling anything and everything, and the occasiona [View Full Entry]

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Alright then…next chapter. I left Jo-Berg on the morning of February 12th on the Baz bus and headed to Swaziland. I met Kelly on the Baz bus on the way there and she just so happened to be staying at the same hostel as I was. We got there around 6:30pm checked in and I pretty much just sat around and waited for dinner. Dinner was great, I think it was chilli over sugar beans….I really had no idea what they were but did manage to figure it out a bit later. After eating a bit of mouldy cake for [View Full Entry]

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I've been on safari and I'm still buzzing from it despite having been up since 4.30 this morning!! I want to be a ranger even more now I've seen so many big game animals in the wild! Another one of my dreams came true when 5 minutes after entering the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park we drove past a White Rhino munching on the grass right by the side of the road. One of the main reasons I came to South Africa was to see these amazing prehistoric looking creatures, I'm absolutely fascinated by them for some reason! Before we'd even stopped for breakfast [View Full Entry]

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St lucia is an beautiful small place just under Swaziland (my next stop). Everything is on one street and you can walk that street in 10 mins. Which is cool as i cant get lost. There is a nice beach here but could not find anywhere to hire surfboards! At night HIPPOS walk the street so you have keep an eye out for them. The night before I left St Lucia the Hippos came within 30 metres of the hostal, which was fun! Went down to the croc farm to have alook at what was going on down there and i [View Full Entry]

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The final destination of our great road trip was the Sodwana Bay Nature Reserve. Apart from being a stunningly beautiful dense forest, just off the coast lies a series of coral reefs which make the bay one of the world's top 5 dive sites. We had booked our dives with Coral Divers, a beautiful dive lodge in the National Park. Since the 3 of us were doing our dive course, we had an included tent accommodation . These were pretty decent army-style tents under a tin roof with proper mattresses inside. The cost of the same accommodation for the other 3 [View Full Entry]

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We left the beautiful Kosi Forest Lodge with reluctance, but knew that after 50Km of driving, we would be at our next destination, Kosi Bay Lodge, where we would be spending two nights in a self-catering chalet. We were welcomed by the manager of Kosi Bay Lodge, Charl, after our heavy 4 x 4 expedition to reach this lodge. Luckily we were in a car fit for the task, for those individuals in non- 4x4 vehicles, I advise that you arrange transport from the lodge itself. Our chalet was quite a lot larger than the previous accommodation we had experienced, due [View Full Entry]

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