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The best way to see Kruger is to drive round the dirt tracks, river courses and waterholes. Here, you have to look for the animals, they don’t often come to you. Once you get into the rhythm though you start … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2014
The back of the Mercedes 4×4 behind us was a write-off. It had been hit by a truck at about 30mph after the queue of traffic we were in stopped; I stopped; the guy in the Merc behind me stopped; … Continue reading
Heading east from Golden Gate Highlands we passed through an area of many towns with Scottish names – Glencoe, Dundee, Kinross, Aberdeen. I’m not sure of the origin, but there is certainly a similarity in the landscape (and the weather … Continue reading
Absolute bloody lunatic drivers on the big inland loop road from Port St John to Port Edward! Lovely countryside, but we couldn’t see much of it most of the time due to heavy fog and rain. That doesn’t stop the … Continue reading
We left Addo for Graaf Reinet about 350km inland – the first 50 being along the Sundays River valley which is swathed in huge Orange and lemon plantations. Odd that everyone says don’t go near elephants with citrus since they’ll … Continue reading
…Elephants. That’s what Addo National Park is all about. Its made up of over 180,000 hectares across five different biomes: Forest, Albany Thicket, Fynbos, Nama Karoo and Indian Ocean Coastal Belt (including some huge dunes). The high scrub / Thicket … Continue reading
New Year was spent in the Wilderness. Not wandering around, dazed and confused in some ethereal, mystic dream-like state, trying to ‘find ourselves‘. Wilderness is a small coastal town on the Garden Route with a pleasant, quiet campsite on the … Continue reading
Christmas was spent camped at a water-sports resort but, since we’ve not had Internet for a couple of weeks, I’ll back-track a little. We had left the Kalahari (Kgalagadi, as it’s been locally known for many generations) looking for a … Continue reading