brrrr - it is f*ing cold in switzerland ! i am back in cheese&chocolat country since friday the 11th and i am still struggeling with the adaption! far too much people, far too much noise, far too cold - but it is nice to chat with friends where you do not have to explain yourself... the plain in joburg left 2h too late, therefore i missed the connecting flight to berne so i had to fly to geneva and then with the train to biel. i finally arrived after a 23h travel. my sister fetched me from the train station and [View Full Entry]

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After leaving the Swazi border, I drive north to the town of Nelspruit, from where I start a 4-day tour of one of Africa's best-known game reserves - Kruger. The size of Kruger Park is difficult to comprehend... 350 kilometres from north to south, covering an area of nearly 2 million hectares. It was established in 1898 as the Sabie National Park by Paul Kruger, and now comprises the park itself, along with a collection of private reserves which together form the larger Kruger eco-system. My safari experience at Kruger will be split between the main park and the Guernsey Private [View Full Entry]

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Hi there, Just returned from 6 days in Kruger. Easy drive down from Jo'burg in the Nissan 4.2 patrol (petrol gulping monster). Two nights at Biyamiti Bush camp and 4 at Lower Sabie. The Biyamti river was dry (only really flows in the rainy months), so the Animals had moved off to more permanent water. Dissapointing game viewing in the area, very dry. Headed off towards crocodile bridge for morning game drive, and then onto the bird hide at Nthandanyathi, and the pan at Nhlanganzwani (say that after 3 beers:). Crocodile bridge has a very active pride of lions. Two monster [View Full Entry]

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Well guys, this is pretty much it as far as the blogging goes, as I don't think that there will be another oppurtunity to come to an internet cafe again before the grand return home (which is going to be on the 11th as planned) Great news. I have FINALLY seen Mufasa! Although he was really more of a teenage Simba with Nala next to him, so I feel I may have stumbled upon a 'can you feel the love tonight' moment... in Kruger National Park. We spent last weekend at the 'Bush Fire Festival' in Swaziland which was absolutely incredible, [View Full Entry]

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Howzit guys Sorry I haven't been on for so long... it's been absolutely hectic down here. I can now add to my list of animals that I've seen... two families of wild elephants (the mother of one group charging at our van and throwing stones at us with her trunk. Now THAT was scary!) and two white rhino's, who were far, far bigger than I had ever imagined rhino's to be! Since I last updates we've also done alot more work at the orphanage, and the bamboo fence is almost finished. My vegetable patch is looking good as well! We've just [View Full Entry]

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Hello Everyone; Here are our last stops for South Africa. Kruger National Park, here we spent 4 nights all at different camps throughout the park. The park is almost 500 miles long and over 300 miles wide so you have to do alot of driving to see animals, but it was so neat. The first night we tent camped at the main camp, we went on a night safari drive with a guide and I got to see some animals I've been wanting to see and hadn't yet. Besides lots of other big game we saw African Eagle Owls, Bushbabies, and [View Full Entry]

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Very exciting actually arriving at the Punda Maria Gates in the northern most part of the Kruger - we’re here! AND just a minute down the road was the first elephant standing side on in a most photogenic pose - wow was it as easy as this? First night in first camp in bed at about 8.30 and up early with great expectations - at this stage it was still taking us nearly 2 hours to decamp so it was still 8am before we hit the road and of course the night-prowlers and hunters had already disappeared as it gets [View Full Entry]

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Well, I have very little time to write this, and far too much to write as it has been so long since I wrote the last one. So I'll just list and waffle! Enjoy.... Hectic, howzit, izit, lush, genius and fo sho are now the staple basis for my vocabulary. Thats right. I now partake in slang. I feel that I may have trumped you all for the first ever driving lesson - basically driving a 4x4 up an almost verticle river bank, along a river bed past a giraffe, having a Dukes of Hazard moment over a bump in the [View Full Entry]

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Ok, witch doctor aside, many awesome things have been going down in the Southern hemisphere. I have been on a microlight aircraft flight (basically a go-kart on a kite) over both the Kwa Madwala reserve and Kruger Park, including the 'Crocodile river". It was seriously good, and I managed to get a birds eye view of a herd of elephants, Impala, a Giraffe, many groups of Hippo's and a MASSIVE Crocodile. It was seriously big. I have a picture to prove this. I also had to drive it for a while myself, so the fact that I am now writing this [View Full Entry]

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Ok. I have 15 minutes to write this - FIRST TIME IN AN INTERNET CAFE!!! So cool. Well I've arrived with no problems (apart from hacing to repack all my stuff in the Heathrow carpark after my suitcase splitting!) and did not sleep at all on the plane, so right now I am certainly verging on the delirious. I'm most prbably casting a very bad first impression as a result! I'm starting to feel like I'm actually IN South Africa now, after having driven from the airport for about an hour. It really is incredible, and yet not quite what I [View Full Entry]

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