Mkuze, South Africa Travel Blogs

King prawn hunt
Jun 8, 2006 (13 photos)

Click here for all St. Lucia photos Up nice and early to go and see an Indian Ocean sunrise. Very nice in the misty beach with the fishermen Silhouetted along the shoreline. Later we did a really good boat trip out on the St. Lucia estuary ...

Peed on by a serval cat at Emdoneni
Jun 5, 2006 (4 photos)

... Town, but passable. We then continued up the N2 through lots of eucalyptus plantations to Isinkwe, a place rated the best backpackers in South Africa by Lonely Planet. We saw Red Duiker on the way up the driveway, surely a good sign. I have to say it ...

Lost in False Bay
Jun 7, 2006 (3 photos)

Click here for all St. Lucia photos Said goodbye to Max, the friendly Jack Russell and headed off to False Bay to see if we could be more successful with the hiking. The first trail we started on was the Dugandlovu Trail. No maps, no trail ...

Dumazulu village and misinformation
Jun 6, 2006 (6 photos)

Click here for all St. Lucia photos We decided to head out to Fanie's Island in St. Lucia to do a hike. Spotted a few nice looking crested guinea fowl on the way out of the driveway. These guys look like they have mohicans - very nice looking. ...

Cape Vidal, back on safari
Jun 9, 2006 (5 photos)

Click here for all St. Lucia photos Back on safari, well sort of, we drove through the Tewati Wilderness area up to Cape Vidal. Although lots of big game had been reintroduced here, we did not see much. We did however see lots of female kudu, ...

Exploring Imfolozi without a 4x4!
Dec 16, 2005 (17 photos)

... . True. True) How many did you score? Please see the pics for a more accurate summary of my foray to the south. Imfolozi really is stunning, and all the better that parts of it are inaccessible to humans. Wilderness never really sounded so good.

No wildlife in St. Lucia!
Dec 17, 2005 (12 photos)

... I can go back on the other side of the swamp? I'm sure I saw a track. Let's get out of here. So I carefully drive south, watching for the turn off for the 20km swamp drive. There it is. OK. I approach the dirt track with care. Two concrete lines have ...

Why is it so COLD?
Jul 1, 2008

Why is it so COLD? We have been freezing for what seems like forever. We wear jumpers and hats and scarves during the day, jumpers and hats and scarves during the night. I haven't seen my feet for weeks, as they've had layers of wool to keep them on ...

Fig Walk
Aug 26, 2007

Lots of bridges and figs makes me happy. Kind of like Indiana Jones but with more elephant poo. Only one puncture on the way home and life is good.

Journey to the Centre of Africa
Dec 13, 2005 (19 photos)

Somewhere between heartbreak and happiness lies the centre of Africa, and I was on my way back. But this time I was alone and approaching from a different side. (For my first visit see the entry on 24th June 2005) There are two routes to Mtubatuba from ...

Mseleni, week 2!
Sep 8, 2006

hey life is gooooooood here guys, its been a great week with a great breakfast to round it off. at 7am (med students, doctors & family) we drove down to lake Sibhaya (you can find it on google earth) with food, stove, coffee, banana bread n all sorts of ...

Mseleni, Mozambique, Mabibi...
Sep 22, 2006 (4 photos)

... night at a bar jst along from our hostel & fell asleep to the sounds of waves crashing... It was strange being in Africa with people who looked and spoke Portugese & funny to hear everyone saying Ciao again. South African's seem to be Afrikaans, European ...

Last few weeks of Mseleni Paradise
Nov 7, 2006 (10 photos)

... 8 month old child. It had literally turned the child to mush. I don't know but I'm guessing the mother died too. South Africa, a third world country masquerading as first-world... but the same could be said of the U.S, especially looking at what came to ...

Safari day one
Nov 7, 2009 (5 photos)

... . It was amazing! So real quick description of the camp.. it is in the middle of a game reserve so like basically the Africa you think of with wild animals and such and I saw more bugs than i ever knew existed and creepy crawlies like scorpions... yeah ...

St. Lucia -- Wetlands
Apr 29, 2009 (16 photos)

I just love doing this trip with an engineer. The 'Menubesprechung' is over and a 'poetjie' has been decided on...Gerds (who is joining us for three days on this leg of the trip) and I are just returning from the 'larder' with all the veg and other ...

Safari day 3
Nov 9, 2009

... stuff but it was a really great time even though we didn't get to sleep much . It was so beautiful to see the wild animals of Africa and just God's glory proclaimed through creation. I had so much fun with my new friends here and I will try to put up some ...

Safari day two
Nov 8, 2009 (15 photos)

... because they wouldn't get their lazy butts out of the water :( Did you know though that hippos are the number one animal killer in Africa?? Yeah! you would think it would be lion or something... but nope if is a hippo!  I would also like to add that ...

Mseleni
Sep 1, 2006 (3 photos)

Sanibonani guys! Ok, so a lot has happened in the last week - i've traveled a few hundred miles north-east & landed in Maputuland! To be more precise: Mseleni, Sibhaya 600 miles North of Durban. The journey over from Cape Town was great, i took the ...

Tiger Fish!!!!
Mar 10, 2007 (6 photos)

... which is the lodge i am staying it, the driveway is a dirt road and it is another 6.5 miles down this road to the lodge, Africa is BIG!  I cant even begin to describe the scenery, you just have to see if for yourself in the pictures, and they are an ...

Kruger National Park!
Apr 9, 2004 (3 photos)

... away - in an OPEN jeep! Truly wondrous. And yesterday I made it into Swaziland - a tiny kingdom completely surrounded by South Africa. The scenery here is purely spectacular - truly magical, much like a fantasy land straight out of the Hobbit/Lord of ...

Coral Divers
Mar 3, 2006

... here, the price we were given was R1800 about 180GBP which was fairly cheap considering this was 'the best waters in South Africa, where the tropical meets the subtropical, where both warm and cold water sealife could survive, a plethora of marine ...

Sodwana National Park
Nov 30, 2006 (11 photos)

... of the Indian Ocean. Sodwana is a scuba diving mecca, and we stayed at a great diving lodge, and made friends with some great South African divers, and their German friend. We roared around for a few hours on quad bikes, and I got to learn to drive ...

No witty title yet. Suggestions welcome....
May 20, 2006

I'll write this entry up when I can find some more time in my busy schedule (ha!). For now just enjoy the photos, if I've bothered to add any on to this entry....

The planets align for a 50 year high
Mar 19, 2007 (5 photos)

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Hippos in the High Street....
May 17, 2006 (4 photos)

I'll write this entry up when I can find some more time in my busy schedule (ha!). For now just enjoy the photos, if I've bothered to add any on to this entry....

Initiations and cheese sauce - have YOU voted yet?
Mar 20, 2007 (35 photos)

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Sodwana Bay
Oct 5, 2006

We stayed here in a lovely chalet in the coastal forest. There were plenty of animals around including a cheeky monkey who came into our chalet and stole our bread! This place is really isolated and so was very relaxing. We went for walks on the beach ...

Money equals fish
Mar 3, 2007

'Tarik asked me to give you this.' said Matt as he handed me a wad of cash. '500 Rand, minus commission.' Brilliant. He'd remembered. We had booked the course and I was keen to get the PADI manual. Adventure Mania had been recommended by a couple of ...

I saw two fish!
Nov 4, 2006

"I saw two fish!" I yelped, clearing the water from my mouth, and trying to stand up on the razor sharp rocks. Everyone just smiled. I must've looked like and idiot. I had a mask and a snorkel sticking out from my face, a bathing suit and a smile that ...

No witty title yet....
May 19, 2006

I'll write this entry up when I can find some more time in my busy schedule (ha!). For now just enjoy the photos, if I've bothered to add any on to this entry....