Terrapin Dive platform

Searching for the elusive leopard

---

August 19th 2008
Second full day on safari Another early rise today - only slightly more streamlined than the day before - and off we set into the bush once more. At last the cold weather had gone and though we started bundled up in blankets we ended the safari without them and indeed later on when we arrived back we even removed one of the layers of clothing we were wearing! We got underway having ... read more

Africa » South Africa » Mpumalanga » Kruger National Park

---

After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more