Janet meets Moby Dick
At last the rain has cleared and we spent a couple of days kayaking down a gentlish river in the Wilderness National Park. This was to prepare us for the sea kayaking we were about to do in…
26th Nov 2008 - South Africa - hits: 29
Down The Wild Coast
Our drive down the Wild Coast of South Africa was pretty miserable weather wise although we did see a number of rugged coastlines. Trouble is rugged coastlines tend to be rather unattractive…
19th Nov 2008 - South Africa - hits: 86
The Battlefields of KwaZuluNatal
The next phase of our journey through South Africa was to visit some of the many battlefields which have taken place here during the Boer War, the Anglo Zulu war and the Afrikaans v Zulu war. To…
4th Nov 2008 - South Africa - hits: 75
More Game Stories
A temporary respite from the Game Park occurred when we decided to visit Swaziland, and travel south through this land locked home of the Zulu’s. The respite lasted exactly 4 hours as we pulled…
17th Oct 2008 - Swaziland - hits: 97
Nearly There
STUCK IN THE KRUGER For over 17 months apart from occasional bouts of loose motion syndrome, we have avoided all that Africa could throw at us. Malaria, Sleeping sickness, Beri Beri, and …
1st Oct 2008 - South Africa - hits: 132
From Mocambique To South Africa
We had heard such wonderful stories about the Mozambique Coast and the plentiful and delicious seafood, that we continued down the coast to a place called Vilanculos. If you can imagine …
16th Sep 2008 - Mozambique - hits: 147
More Game Reserves
ZAMBIA Everyone raves about the South Luangwa National Park, as the best animal viewing experience in Africa. So we headed from the civilisation of the Golf Club to the town of Chipata which…
9th Aug 2008 - Zambia - hits: 239
To The Victoria Falls And Back
The official game drives in the park were not hugely successful, but our close encounters at the camp site were to continue. This time Janet decided to have a couple of hours reading by the…
9th Aug 2008 - Zambia - hits: 113
Malawi
We continue travelling down the side of Lake Malawi which incidentally has waves you could surf on, looking for our Utopian Camp Site where we can spend a week or so. So far there is always …
2nd Aug 2008 - Malawi - hits: 172
Into Mozambique
One of the things that troubled us somewhat about coming in to Mozambique was the paucity of information which we could get hold of about routes, safety, quality of roads, diesel and…
2nd Aug 2008 - Mozambique - hits: 86