Blogs from South Africa, Africa - page 581

ANIMAL SPOTTINGS Morning Tour:  Hippopotamus (Near waterhole)  Cheetah (In grassy area)  Elephant  Cape Buffalo herd  Southern Giraffes (Mother and baby in the distance)  Burchell’s Zebras  Blue Wildebeest  Warthogs  Impala  Side Striped Jackals  Slender Mongoose  Small Spotted Genet  Barn Owl (Flew out of water tank) Evening Tour:  Hyenas at den with babies  Cape Buffalo  Black Breasted Snake Eagle  Waterbuck  Lesser Bushbaby  Baboons  Warthogs  Slender Mongoose  Bush Buck  Impalas  Scrub Hares ... read more

Yes it is true. First, today we drove to a small village out of Cape Town it took us about 2 1/2 hours. We were really beginning to like Cape town, but there are so many other areas and territory we are covering in South Africa. Our drive was once again, no memorable, we took tons of pics, and little movies. When we got to our small guest house, on cliff st. you can only imagine how set into cliffs, and so beautiful our surroundings are! This place is called whale song lodge, and the reason is because every year the whales ( all different species) make the journey away from Antarctica’s cold water to these warmer waters to mate, from May till Sept. The people here are so used to this that I swear, they ... read more

PHOTOS - Link Day 1 - Cape Town After arriving into Cape Town at around 11pm and having already spent a night in Sydney airport followed by 16 hours on planes, I passed out in my hostel bed in the hope that I might actually wake up in time to meet my group the next day! Luckily, or not, a fire alarm (false one) at 5am was my wake up call and the smell of sick in the room (god knows who'd done it) was enough to get me up! At breakfast I met most of the group, 23 of us, although remembering their names was going to be one of the biggest challenges of the trip. There's a good mix of boys/girls, couples etc which was a relief after having spent most of South America ... read more

Kruger national park is a world famous game reserve, dear reader, and this impressively run park is north east of Jo'Burg. It features a huge variety of wildlife, often at very close quarters. Game spotting is one of the most enjoyable experiences in life, and if our encounters in the park are an accurate guide you won't be disappointed! We spent three days in the Kruger park, which is South Africa's most famous tourist attraction, and we left one of the world's oldest wildlife parks exhilarated by our viewing experiences. There are an incredible number of animals to spot, and it's a wonderful privilege to be in their world as nature intended. To recap from the previous journal, my American friend and I went through the formalities at the border crossing in Swaziland, then headed north ... read more

Today Tommy and I took an all day coastal drive along the peninsula all the way to the cape of good hope. Tommy had a blast driving like he was racing and these twists and turns were all along the cliffs, and severe sharp turns. The views were breathtaking, so we stopped just about every few miles. One view was literally more beautiful then the next, until we got closer to the National Park where the cape point is. Before we reached the park, we stopped in at an ostrich farm.. I insisted since now I think Ostrich is amazing, I had it for dinner last night! It is so lean! So then we reached the park which signs warned us as we entered about not feeding the baboons, and to be aware of the ... read more