Blogs from Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, Africa - page 58

I arrived in Jo'Burg which apparently is the most dangerous city in South Africa, and you could easily see it was. Every home had 10 feet high fences with razor wire along the top and 2-3 guard dogs barking. I had one day there until I would meet Jas and Ryan in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. I spent the first part of the morning in Lion Park where I got to see many lion's of course along with other animals. The highlight of this trip was petting a white lion cub and driving through lion dens. I then went to Monte Casino, which looks like a giant castle from the outside, but the inside is desinged to appear like you are outside in an old aged town. The shops looked like old houses and the ceiling ... read more

Hello everyone. So after surviving horrendously painful trapped wind which I had to endure on the flight and what seemed like a life time waiting around at Dubai airport I have made it to South Africa and it feels like I was meant to come here now. I actually started to feel like a local in Dubai because I was there for so long, I grew my beard, wore a white dressing gown whilst making a miserable looking suppressed female carry my bags 3 paces behind me. As you know I am not an experience traveler and I have seen people sleeping in the strangest positions possible in the airport lounge, and tourists taking pictures of luggage trolley’s and the like or old middle aged white men with young Malaysian women. I bought some new socks ... read more

Johannesburg take... five? Twenty-five percent of South Africa’s Police Force is illiterate and as luck would have it, one of them pulled us over with an over-inflated sense of importance. “Can I see your license?” Derick pulls out his license. “You cannot drive this truck, wrong license,” he says. Incensed, Derick took a deep breath and asked why. After all for over three years now, Drifters have issued him this license to drive their trucks without problems. “Because sis truck is modified, it seyz that you cannot drive sis truck,” the spherical man says, rocking back on his heels and pointing to the back of the license. “It says up to 16 tonnes. This is a max 13tonne truck, its been modified to 10.” “You cannot drive this truck,” he insisted pointing to the trucks capacity ... read more

After a very long flight we finally arrived in Jo burg. We are staying at Lucia's and are beeing put up quite well. today we went to a flea market and then had dinner at the keg. Tommorrow we are going for breakfast and then the casino. we are here until wednesday then are going to drakensburg and stayning in our own cottage very posh. pictures will follow later on.... read more

Being in South Africa, I couldn't leave before getting to see some game! The nearest game park was a couple of hours away. So I went via Sun city to the Pilanesberg National Park, where they have tourist type safari's setup. Being one of the premier game-spotting locations in africa, they boast the ability to see what's called the Big 5 game - Rhino, Buffalo, Elephant, Lion & Leopard. So we set off to the game park on a open truck! Apparently windows take away from the whole experience... Who am I to question the experts!? After trekking round for a bit, we spotted a rhino in the middle of the road! Rhino never quite entered into my top 10 as a road hazard, but there it was stopping traffic! We also saw some bubbles in ... read more