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Lydenburg Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Lydenburg, South Africa
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And Relax... maybe
This is a top pick! ... and have finished removing a fenceline between Lower Horse Tree and 4x4 which is great. I had a small success in that I finally got a South African number after many a week trying to simply get a sim card and then having many an issue with a new law about ...
Onto the Next Phase
This is a top pick! So I've left Enkosini and am currently in Lydenburg awaiting my departure to Makalali in Hoedspruit. It's worked out well in that one of the staff is heading back from Jo'Burg so has offered to pick me up saving me 2 days and a fair whack of money in ...
Building Bridges
This is a top pick! Sightings: kudu, red hartebeest, warthog, Lourie (bird), flying termites, frogs Today the big plan was to fox Mitch's Bridge. We were due to leave at 0700 but didn't get into the bakkie until somewhere around 0730. (This is apparently a regular ...
Up and Down and Up and Down... and an Ice-pack
This is a top pick! So typing is a little hard today as my hand is 3 times the size it normally should be but I'll keep going anyway... Sightings: 7 warthog, 3 baboon troops, 4 red hartebeest (and one calf), malachite kingfisher, franklins, mini quail-chickens and their ...
Birthdays are Supposed to Be Good Days
This is a top pick! [some comments removed] But in terms of stuff I’ve been doing aside from that, yesterday, R and I went to Zebra Plains to try to spot the zebra and giraffe. There are concerns the herd of 8 has lost one of the zebra because in the last week, ...
Finding New Roads
This is a top pick! ... until it was finally decided to get Ch, who would know all. (This guy really does and, aside from being very much 'old’ South Africa (if you get what I mean) he is such a nice guy, and he really tries to teach you stuff rather than just doing it.) ...
A Day Off In 'Busy' Lydenburg
This is a top pick! ... café that there’s no way I would have found without someone knowing it even existed… back alleys are not my thing in South Africa, haha. But, my gosh, it’s so cheap. R45 (about $7.50) for 75min. We drove back with K’s Mum, Ca, ...
First Aid and The Honey Badger
This is a top pick! ... an inventory for a Blue Box of random goodies that we found the other day. I noted things like Omo, Sunlight (an South African brand of wonder soap/ laundry product), lollies, canned beef, canned pilchards, toothpaste, tea, coffee, milk, methol scented ...
A Bloody War and a Sickly Season
This is a top pick! ... today I was the only ranger and therefore head ranger at Enkosini. [some comments removed] F left this morning in the bakkie to Lydenburg. I saw him off, and packed our stuff in to go to/ list to come back from town, then headed off to do the few ...
Mama Never Said There'd Be Days Like This
This is a top pick! Sightings: Baboons, 8 Red Hartebeest (and 2 calves), Skinks, Unknown Lizard, Leopard (and cub) Tracks, Jackel Tracks, Duiker Tracks, 1 Vervet Monkey (in the wild - not the ones being cared for at the Volunteer House!) Yesterday was probably the best day ...
Feelin' Hot Hot Hot
This is a top pick! [some comments removed] Meanwhile, I’ve been doing more orientation and trying to learn the roads (even more important now!). I got to see some more of the animals – even a few of the smaller being caterpillars of all shapes and sizes, ...
New Years Ranger Style
This is a top pick! ... just gets better, after a really nice New Years celebration I wake up this morning to realise I may have left my iPod in Lydenburg. I hope that it's still at the Lydenburg Guesthouse Manor or else I’m fairly sure I’ll be iPod-less for the next ...
An Update and a Visit to Kruger
This is a top pick! Well, so much has happened I've been quite bad at updating anything lately. Last week we headed to Kruger for 3 days which was nice. A chance to see some big animals other than the odd antelope of ostrich is always welcome in my books. We were really ...
Getting Charged by a Warthog Named Rusty
This is a top pick! Yesterday the plan was to walk out to the rock paintings and then on to North Gate for a boundary check. It was all simple enough so at the usual start time of 0800 we set off down to the cliffs were the paintings are. Rusty was hanging around as usual. ...
Lazy Days
This is a top pick! ... at are the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (which is the place I forgot the name of but was recommended to me), going up to West Africa for a trip (but visas may be the issue in that one), I’ve asked about the logistics of doing a FGASA course ...
Second Time Lucky
This is a top pick! And a short update - I'm back to wanting to leave again. I'm not going to Kruger (for perfectly legitimate reasons of which I don't have any issue with but I was looking forward to going), I've ended up going head to head with M who was probably the ...
No Fishing, Breaks Causing Breaks & Safe Entries
This is a top pick! ... is put on my face to join the one writhing in pain. 25 Jan 10 - Sightings: nil Monday - town trip day. A had to head into Lydenburg in order to get his burns checked out and I had to join him to get my wrist and elbow checked. We had a full bakkie on the ...
Considerations
This is a top pick! ... of goings on but at the same time I'm still half-half about staying or going. Today we woke up to meet the bakkies going into Lydenburg to do all the shopping, etc for everyone. I had my fingers crossed my laundry and ipod would return to me. There was a ...
The Rain Gods and the Shower Gods in Cahoots
This is a top pick! Sightings: 8 Warthog (and 6 piglets), 2 kudu, 4 Red Hartebeest, a lizard, guinea fowl, monkey tracks, reedbuck tracks Everyone did come back wet the other day, it meant that I had to go down to the stream to get the pump too which I'm never doing by ...
A Little Slice of Luxury
This is a top pick! I admit it. I'm to blame. 3 out of 3 times in coming to South Africa there has been insane fog. I took the shuttle today from Jo’burg Airport to Lydenburg (which on a side note I discovered is pronounced LIE-den-burg not LID-en-burg or LEE-den-burg ...
More Hitting the Proverbial
This is a top pick! Sightings: 6 Red Hartebeest, 3 kudu, the weird bird, 1 chameleon, [some comments removed] Yesterday was all about F heading up to Sakabosch to deliver some things to the workers now living there. He came back from that saying that [some comments ...
Animals Abound
This is a top pick! Sightings: 8 impala, 1 dung beetle, 1 kudu, baboons, 2 guinea fowl, 1 grey duiker, a rainbow coloured bird, a king fisher and the usual weavers and other bird that made nests by my cabin, and the big gecko by the toilet (who now moved to the firewood ...
Day 1 and Straight Into It
This is a top pick! So I've arrived at Enkosini and finished my first day of work. I’ve had a nice shower to get rid of all the dust I’ve collected driving behind C all day. Yesterday, the other volunteer and myself met up for breakfast then did a little ...
Simon on a High
This is a top pick! Just a short entry - today is cleaning stations day and preparations for new people coming. 1 new volunteer (who's been here before) and the 2 new co-ordinators. I'm enjoying a fanta and we're scraping together the remnants of what little food is left in ...
A Bakkie, A Cliff and a Hill You Can't Get Up
This is a top pick! Sightings: Ostrich, Chameleon, Red Hartebeest, Baboon, Vervets (who given I'm on 'older' vervet monkey feeding duty I don't think I need to mention sightings of them anymore...) Today I was just showing the new Co-ordinators around the place. Something ...
Mlilwane Wildlife Sanctuary
Making an early start we drove from Kruger to Swaziland. As we drove along we spotted giraffes, impalas, warthogs, crocodiles and other game but no lions. Although we altered our route to once again pass by areas where lions had been spotted, they ...
Hippo in the garden!!
... gorgeous and overlook the mountains. After getting our stuff in we went and sat by the river and watched the hippo play, we've been told not to walk about at night as they come up on the lawns to graze..ha ha!! Well another amazing day in South ...
Moving to the wedding hotel
We all drive across from Johannesburg to the wedding hotel which is near Lydenburg. Link to hotel website We will probably have hired a car by this point. Matt will lend P a mountain bike, and M and N will either borrow or hire bikes too and we will go ...
Lydenburg, the scenery starts from here!
The famous LongTom pass lies ahead. The place where the Boers chased the Brittish over the mountains and captured the deadly canon - Long Tom, all during the Boer war. ...
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