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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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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Right guys, you have to seriously get your thinking/planning caps on right now - we have only 2 months to plan my wedding! (Groom yet to be found...) Yes that's right, according to the oh so wise witch doctor, in just TWO MONTHS I am going to get married to a 'good' but obviously fast moving young man, I will get pregnant almost straight away, and said baby will be a girl. As a result both Boy Boy and John (two of the rangers) have suggested that I marry them so that I can stay in Africa :) Also, apparently I [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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Hey peeps. Ok - I only have 7 minutes to write this one, so here goes... Since we arrived I have... Been on one bush walk (which involved scrambling up some nillion year old boulders, kind of like pride rock!) Been on two game drives - SERIOUSLY COOL Seen - Giraffes, Warthogs, Impala, Kudu's, Elephants, Rhino's, Crocodiles, Lizards, Snakes, Hyena's, Cheeta's, Leapords, a Lioness, Hippo's and Vultures - phew! Involved in these sightings have been... Hand feeding an elephant, kissing a hippo, sucking and spitting DRIED Impala poo (it's a distance based game, don't ask!) and stroking a rh [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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WARNING This entire blog is likely to be waffle. As yet I have nothing to write about (unless you want to hear about my new embroidery project) and so I am just practising with this newfangled communication technique. IT WILL (hopefully) GET BETTER as I actually set off... It is the last day of June 2009, and my last day as a solely European traveller! Tomorrow, the first day of July I strap on my intrepid boots (figuratively speaking of course) and head off to SOUTH AFRICA. Although any who are reading this will know this fact already and are probably [View Full Entry]

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