Blogs from South Africa, Africa - page 644

Well im back here in die bos. Its good to be back.Now its time to get back to work.Have to save up enough for my next trip, probably England.But im in no rush. Having a good time here with my family and friends. Still missing everyone in Oz.Thanx for all the emails.Sorry im so quiet, connections are not always that good and many times i just hve a short time. I would like to inform you that i did get a job as restaurant manager which I am thrilled about. Very nice little place so Ill try and post some fotos of it soon.... read more

Sorry the late listing. I have had no access to the net and in fact I am not even sure if this listing will show as the net access I am using is some old-fashion thing called "dilup" apparently! Anyway, I flew rather uneventfully home with my recently injured (possibly broken metatarsal) foot and passed through Joburg in my shortest ever visit to South Africa. One thing worth of note is that Joburg International has, as well as the normal international duty-free and obligatory African curio shops, a small place (turn left after passport control) where you can get a 20 or 30-minute chair massage! I highly recommend this as a way to kill half an hour and prepare for your long haul flight back to London! (Just dont trust the women who work there to ... read more

Its been quite a crazy and busy past month or so, so I apologize that I haven’t updated this in a while, but frankly, I had better things to be doing! Mid-June kicked it all off, with my parents and sister arriving and meeting me at the Durban airport. It was so awesome to see them, and such a mind trip as well, having part of my life in the states visiting me over here. It was also my first time as tour guide of durban, for which I was terribly underqualified, but luckily my parents couldn’t really tell that I was leading them in circles half the time. Experience is quite the teacher however, and I’ve now mastered the streets of Durban like no other. (Yet another in the inexhaustable list of reasons why the ... read more

Cape Agulhas - the ends of the earth ! Or, perhaps, the most Southern Point in Africa - and where the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean meet. Bump down a dusty track to a sign which proclaims in large letters the offical point where the hydrologists decided is the official point where the oceans meet. I suspect that the point is entirely arbitrary - but don't tell the hydrologists or I'll get angry letters. There's not much to see from there but endless sea - but the crashing waves are dramatic and there's something erie about the whole area. We decided to challenge our car, and took it up a fairly off road trail to look at the pensinsula from on high. You can see a shot of our car here - it's a brand ... read more

The title pretty much sums up our animal experiences in our second trip to Kruger. Our own excursions into the Park were based near one of the southern camps around Skukuza and this time with the professional, we were further north near Orphen. Whilst we had the advantage of an open game viewer rather than a Renault Clio, if the animals aren't nearby you are going to see them....and most of the big cats remained as elusive as a South African policeman when you need one. There are therefore no lion piccies to add to this page, the leopards were probably hiding up a tree laughing as we went past and the only major sighting success was a very distant cheetah. The elephants were in abundance, as were the giraffes, zebras, wilderbeest and the ever present ... read more