Not going bore you with the four am wake up or the 7:30 arrival at JFK. Not going to detail the 14 1/2 hour fight to Johannesburg or passport control and customs or the 1.2 hour flight to Port Elizabeth or the bus ride to Kareiga Game Reserve mainly because I cat napped all the way. We arrived in time for lunch, checked in , ate a bite and were off on our first game drive. A note about Kareiga. It is privately owned and has been in operation for about twenty years. Formerly the area, about 22,000 acres was farm and ranch land. The perimeter has been enclosed with an electric fence and the animals are free to roam. There is plenty of grassland for the gnu, waterbuck, bushbuck, eland, wildebeest, ostrich, giraffe and rhino
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