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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…

A finely balanced portrait

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…

The Replica bronze Largaar at Blood River

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…

Look behind you

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…

Dinner time

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 …

Chris Catches Supper/breakfast/dinner Etc

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 …

Elephant Interrupts Janets Reading

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…

Vic Falls From Zambian Side

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…

Chris umpiring a grudge India Parkistan match

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 …

Bilene Beach

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…