Hannie

Basically I wanted to use this page to display the photos and tell you a bit about my time at CROW. I arrived in durban on the17th November from Cape town, and this is where I spent 6 weeks-5 of them volunteering at a wildlife rehabilitation centre for animals in Yellowood Park,Durban. The centre was fantastic-it consisted of a clinic,which housed the office, vet clinic,animal quiet room,baby room for baby birds which was heated,other young birds which were kept in cages before being released to a larger enclosure,and a few monkeys at various times that were badly injured or who had undergone surgery and needed a close eye kept on them. Then the was a Mammal block building, an intensive care building, an aviary -all which consisted of 10 enclosures. A few completely outdoor enclosures. about ... read more

12th September-10th October 2005 (Trekking Annapurna Circuit 16th Sept-4th Oct) Following is a transcription of the diary i kept along the way while hiking Flew out of London on the 11th Sept via Doha (Quatar) and arrived into Kathmandu (Nepal) on the 12th, I was welcomed outside the Kathmandu airport by the friendly locals offers of "you need transport?where you going?where you from?you need a taxi-I give you taxi good price"-the entree' of Nepal! After basically telling them to "go away" in the nicest possible way and that i had transport organised,I looked for my transport and low and behold it was nowhere in site!! After a phone call to the hotel who let me know the hotel bus had just gone & i would have to either wait another hour or so (nepali time) for ... read more