It begins in Africa... (South Africa actually)
Things are going smoothly. In fact, things are going a little too smoothly and I'm strarting to get suspscious that we are due some serious travel pain sometime soon.
We arrived safely at Jo'burg after the best transit stop-over I've ever had. 6 hours in Singapore was spent relaxing in a pool, playing Xbox and watching premier leagure soccer. Changi Airport is now my favourite place in Singapore (granted, I haven't been anywhere else).
Once in Jo'burg we managed to make it to our hostel without incident and our tour of Jo'burg consisted of one site - Eastgate mall, A.K.A Fountain Gate from Kath and Kim. We even rounded this out with a lovely Latte. Fairly strange experience, however by the end of it we were stocked and ready for Kruger.
Early the next morning we successfully negotiated City Park Bus Station (Jo'burg's number one mugging point) and boarded a bus to Nelspruit where we stayed at the Funky Monkey. Less said about that place the better.
Now to the serious bit - Kruger Park. This place was absolutely amazing. We opted to organise the trip ourselves and hired a car for four days. This ended up being a very economically sound decision. Rather than paying the extortionate $375US each, we got away with $475US TOTAL for the four us. BAM!
Also, my fears that we wouldn't see as much wildelife without a guide were totally missplaced. The only animal we didn't see was a Cheetah, otherwise we saw 4 different Lions, two Leopards, loads of Rhinos, Elephants, Hippos, Giraffes and even some baby Hyenas (which were extremely cute!). Below are some of the pics:
We arrived safely at Jo'burg after the best transit stop-over I've ever had. 6 hours in Singapore was spent relaxing in a pool, playing Xbox and watching premier leagure soccer. Changi Airport is now my favourite place in Singapore (granted, I haven't been anywhere else).
Once in Jo'burg we managed to make it to our hostel without incident and our tour of Jo'burg consisted of one site - Eastgate mall, A.K.A Fountain Gate from Kath and Kim. We even rounded this out with a lovely Latte. Fairly strange experience, however by the end of it we were stocked and ready for Kruger.
Early the next morning we successfully negotiated City Park Bus Station (Jo'burg's number one mugging point) and boarded a bus to Nelspruit where we stayed at the Funky Monkey. Less said about that place the better.
Now to the serious bit - Kruger Park. This place was absolutely amazing. We opted to organise the trip ourselves and hired a car for four days. This ended up being a very economically sound decision. Rather than paying the extortionate $375US each, we got away with $475US TOTAL for the four us. BAM!
Also, my fears that we wouldn't see as much wildelife without a guide were totally missplaced. The only animal we didn't see was a Cheetah, otherwise we saw 4 different Lions, two Leopards, loads of Rhinos, Elephants, Hippos, Giraffes and even some baby Hyenas (which were extremely cute!). Below are some of the pics:
Hyena Family
African Sunset
Elephant
Leopard - thanks to nick for spotting this guy.
So now we are off on the second leg of our journey - Mozambique. It's time to soak up some surf, sand and diving, woohoo!
1 comment:
I'm glad you labeled teh pictures of the animals for us.
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