Greetings We don’t usually blog just one event but the day we went cage diving with GREAT WHITE SHARKS was so amazing it deserves a blog to itself The day started early in Hermanus at 6am we were heading 30km’s down the coast to the shark capital of the world Gansbaai. We met up with the captain and the shark wranglers, had a quick safety talk which basically consisted of if you stick any limbs out of the cage you will get them bitten off and we were all set. The boat was a specially designed boat that allows you to [View Full Entry]

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The first of our discovering South Africa series where we pose certain truths·myths that exist out there. The answer: Not for us. But we have only seen a very small and exclusive part of it. I would say it is generally safe but you just need to be very careful. We made it safely to the hotel, I am writing at 2:30AM local time as we are both reasonably wide awake, but having missed an entire night's worth of sleep, we are still a bit tired. There is a 7 hour time difference, so this means that when we "wake up" [View Full Entry]

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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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Forty percent of the world’s gold formed in the Witwatersrand reef, a stretch of barren, sulfur-capped hills separating the open air townships from the glittering skyscrapers of Johannesburg. Low-lying hills surround the city, and form the boundaries of what was once a lake basin, into which were carried the immeasurable gold deposits by rivers to the north. That gold built the Republic of South Africa, and each hilltop seems to buttress the very sky, as finely-shaven as if every last fleck of gold was accounted for and plucked like the violet flowers adorning the hills, highways, and ev [View Full Entry]

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Hola! This happened back in the beginning of November but I havent had access to the internet so I am adding entrys now... So the last thing i did in Storms River was going on that horse ride. It was good fun apart from when the horses escaped...but luckily we found them again a bit further up the road. I then tried to get myself to Durban as qhick and cheaply as possible..it proved pretty tough. After many phone calls and dramas I managed to get a ride by two dutch girls to Port Elizabeth. We had a pizza (a very [View Full Entry]

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On our first full day on safari, we were told to be ready at 5:30 a.m. for our morning game drive. We thought that we misunderstood what the guide had said, so we repeated the time and made sure that we were hearing things properly. We asked, "isn't that a bit early?" We generally wake up at the crack of dawn when we're in the states, but we were on vacation and vacations are meant for rest and relaxation. We thought that we could control the schedule and go on leisurely game drives through the park. That obviously wasn't going to [View Full Entry]

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So we have arrived back into civilisation! We hit South Africa and the difference was noticeable within 1km of the border from Maputo, Mozambique. Immediately the roads were perfect tar, all the land was agricultural and mass farmed, rather than one woman with a pick axe there were tractors and rows upon rows of lush green crops, everything that you would expect from organised commercial farming. No more buying veggies from the side of the road or picking through mouldy veg and fat with a little bit of meat on in the supermarkets, there was now everything that you could wish [View Full Entry]

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So we left Hermanus on Saturday morning but first things first and we had wanted to visit the craft market and finish off some of present shopping since the end of the trip is getting nearer. Presents bought and a picnic lunch purchased from Woolworths we jumped in the car and headed for Greyton. The drive was a straightforward one but did afford us some beautiful views. Just outside of the town we passed a small creek and Paula thought she spotted an otter causing an emergency stop and a U-turn however whatever it had been that she had seen it [View Full Entry]

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Check out www.paswnamibia.org for what I have been doing for the last three weeks. [View Full Entry]

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I am back from my great South African Game Reserve adventure, and adventure it was! Carolyn and I left for the game reserve mid day last Sunday and drove three hours up north in the pouring rain. We reached the reserve in the late afternoon and as soon as we entered the first set of gates we were stopped by two huge elephants. They were on either side of the rd, but soon one decided to join the other. This was fantastic because there was nothing between us and the elephants which are absolutely enormous. But this soon started to [View Full Entry]

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