Blogs from Eastern Cape, South Africa, Africa - page 8

Finally arrived to my home for the upcoming module. The room is very simple but new and clean. On the other hand shower is not working, no wifi and no mirror (a bit dissapointing for the girls). They say that everything should be fixed by the end of next week but in Africa it means much more time so we will see how it works.... read more

The two weeks we spent in Addo Elephant Park were a nice change of pace from Kruger. Instead of waking at 4am to get ready in the dark to go game driving, we spent time and energy rigging up towels and blankets at the windows every night in order to allow the kids to sleep in as long as possible. Instead of eating dry cereal in the car, we'd have toast, coffee, and cereal with milk on the verandah. So civilized! (Ok, not really with a two and four year old!) Most of the time we were staying in a "forest cabin", which is pretty funny as there's nothing resembling a forest here! It was a forest cabin, though, in that it was a cute fake wood log cabin with a built-in bench table and small ... read more

Geo: -33.562, 26.6418We will be doing 4 drives in total. On our second drive we had a great experience with elephants. The majority of the group came up and walked right past our vehicle walking within a few feet of us. They didn't even notice us. We then found the lions. Two males. They were just lazing around being cats. Got some nice photos of one of them. The other wasn't in a good spot. I had better eyes than the guide on this one. I found them both first. Wifi is not great. Slow and kicking me off but I keep trying to keep you up to date with what we see. Hope you are enjoying them. Sharon's now happy that we saw the cats in the wild.... read more

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Im Addo Elephant Park Die Self-Driving-Safari mit unserem Hop-on-hop-off-Guide Simni war wohl das aufregendste in unserem Urlaub bisher. Wir haben uns erhofft endlich ein paar Elefanten zu sehen aber unsere Erwartungen wurden weit übertroffen: wir haben nicht einen Elefanten gesehen sondern 59 (Nicolas hat alle gezählt), Größe und kleine, Männlein und Weiblein, manche waren zum angreifen nahe. Das war wirklich beeindruckend! Als Bonus haben wir dann auch die Löwen auf dem Silbertablett serviert bekommen: nicht mal 20 m von uns entfernt, nutzten sie den Schatten der Büsche um ihr Mittagsschläfchen zu halten und selbst dabei sehen sie noch sehr, sehr imposant und beeindruckend mächtig aus! Viele andere Tiere kreuzten auch noch unsere Wege: Warzenschweine, Zebras, Kudus, Kuhantilopen, ein Erdmännchen, Büffeln,... Wir hatten wirklich großes Glück, so viele Tiere aus so geringer Entf... read more