Blogs from Hoedspruit, Limpopo, South Africa, Africa - page 5

Hi all, OK, so I guess I'd better tell you a little about the volunteer work we're doing and the lectures - this week has been more ordered and we've got down to more of a work pattern as a lot of people left this week so they were fitting all the trips in last week! The usual pattern of the day is to get up and do a couple of hours work from 7.30am. We've been helping to collect sand to help Uncle Tinus build his house (he lives at the camp and I actually have his roundowel now and he's sleeping in the house - feel bad kicking an 82 year old out!), been filling the eroded ground up with leaves, twigs etc. to help build it up to the level of the rest ... read more

We went on Thursday evening at about 4pm to see Jessica the Hippo, who is a human friendly Hippo. This is because when she was born there was a big flood and when she was only a couple of hours old she was swept away from her mother and the people who look after here found her on their doorstep the next morning. So they took her in and have looked after her ever since. They have the river just outside their house and Jessica is not caged in she is free to leave if she likes but she likes living there. She does get spoilt though, she gets feed and gets here own mattress too sleep on!! So when we arrived we were shown the house where we would stay for the night a ... read more

Our big posh Game drive. We were given the option of doing a proper game drive around the Baule game reserve and it only cost us 100R each which isn't bad for 5 hours driving and stop for alcholic drinks and nibbles! So we had 2 very funny guys pick us up and off we went. They did a short drive round and then they had heard of a lion kill that was 2 days old, it was a giraffe and the lions were still around feeding on it. So off we went to have a look, how amazing we were able to see some lions with full belly's just lying down and relaxing and we got to park up next to some feeding on the kill!!!!! We stayed and watched them for about 2 hours ... read more

Our group trip Panorama and Kruger trip- Tuesday 22nd July - Wednesday 23rd July. On the Tuesday 22nd July we set off on our 2 day trip organised with the people we are staying with. It was an all girls trip there was Laura, Movian, Tee and myself. We did the Panorama Drive first and Kruger will be tomorrow. We saw the Blyde and Treur Rivers and saw where they met. One is calm and other one a little bit rougher. We did the portholes which where so amazing, the size and just the views that you got from them was amazing.This is also where the 2 rivers meet one another. We went to look at 3 rondavals which is 3 mountains thta look just like rondavals, the surrounding view was also amazing. Gods window, where ... read more

Ok let me explain that. Slept in my bed the first night, second night was in the bush ( no pun intended) third night was on the look out tower, forth was in my bed, fifth was in town after a night out, sixth was on the look out tower. So much was happened in the past week i'm starting to find it hard to remember what days i've done what. Had a great night in town on friday evening. went for a meal in the Sleepers Restuarant in town and had Ostrich kababs and were very nice. Then a group of us then went to an opening of a new cocoktail bar in the town and were entertained by a great new singer who is very big in south Africa. Then of to the local ... read more