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Sun City Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Sun City, South Africa
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Splashing around in sunny South Africa
This is a top pick! ... to die for. Reluctantly we decided to stop off for a dip on the way home. What started out as a very wet morning in South Africa, ended up being a day to remember. Please enjoy the photos! (PS. Serendipity Ranch is open for visitors, you can book ...
Moles and Molecular Progress
This is a top pick! ... story begins with an endangered species, the Juliana Golden Mole. A tiny little mole with no eyes that likes sandy soil in South Africa. Unfortunately, they are a secretive bunch, so when the population began to decline a while ago, no one knew why, or ...
Where have all the birds gone?
This is a top pick! ... 'A what?' "Piet mit Frau" 'A 'Piet my wife'?' "Exactly! Mark it down!" OK then. Somebody should have warned me that South African's have strange ways of naming their birds. But after the end of the two hour bird census, I too was able to ...
Confusion at the cricket field
This is a top pick! Playing in the orchestra is fun. I love it. I look forward to it. But occasionally I find it extremely confusing. Like today. We were playing at an Afrikaans festival on stage at a cricket field. It was the final 'pops' concert. (cue television soap ...
My First Game Park
... about taking any compensation from us. More than just the sights, I have really enjoyed getting to know the generous people of South Africa. I hope to be able to post pictures as soon as I can get my internet sorted out with the University, until ...
Return to SA - The Seed is Officially Sown
... right now I’d like to introduce you to the Pilanesburg Game Reserve, a rare jewel in the wildlife treasure chest that is South Africa. What you can find here on any day at any time is, well anything really. Even David Attenborough would be ...
Last gasp africa
... slept well. Well, singapore's next on the list and itsbeen amazing to stay with Marcelle and Ivan as they've been fatastic hosts, and hope that we cn return the favour some day. Africa is slowly fading into the horizon as asia slowly ...
Visitors #2
... We didn't stay the night, just went for the day for a game drive in a different reserve. Madikwe is just over the border in South Africa, so it really didn't take much time at all to drive there and we arrived in the morning. We hung around the lodge ...
Pilanesberg
... a smartest thing on earth to do;-) Instead of driving into the park, we took a normal road around it and went to Sun City, to the nearest Avis dealer. After getting our car replaced, we finally set off for the Pilanesberg safari. Not counting a ...
The Valley of Waves and My Magic Swimmers!
We left Pilansberg on a bit of a high and headed into Sun City for a cool down. The valley of Waves sounded like a hoot and after not much convincing we were making our way over there. For something that is called "The valley of the waves" there ...
PILANESBERG NATIONALPARK
... bishop and so on. Landscape is stunning. This place is absolutely not crowded, saw just a few cars there (you go by your own car through the park....) A PERFECT day for people who love animals, landscapes and wildlife (and a LOT sun and heat, ...
Day 1: Pilanesberg National Park
... . We said our good bye and made our way in into the airport. One thing I must say is that security is so relaxed. Granted, South Africa has no real enemies but still, Justin managed to fly with a Swiss Army Knife (by accident!!!) in his hand luggage. ...
The Warm up
We are back now from our warm up trip to South Africa, and quite stunning it was as well, after a very bouncy 11 hour flight we arrived early morning at Johannesburg airport. Then we stayed at Sun City for 7 nights, what a fun place that is, from the ...
Day 2: Pilanesberg National Park
... around and spied all types. We headed back to the chalet at around midday. We needed to get out of the sun for a bit. Armed with cold water and left overs from dinner. (I swear the ribs I ordered where bigger than mine!) We ate till our ...
day 3: Pilanesberg Nation Park
We decided that instead of just checking out and leaving we would check out and go for one last drive through the park. This turned out to be the best idea. We had yet to see Rhino, giraffe, a big cat of some kind and a decent shot of Hippo's. ...
Pilanesberg
So, the planned trip to Kruger national park (an immense nature reserve, the size of Isreal) got postponed in favor of the closer, not completely booked Pilanesberg nature reserve. Pilanesberg does have much of the game that Kruger has, including ...
Sun City, South Africa - Palace of the Lost City
... out on the internet waves. but more importantly three things to y'all that are wondering about my whereabouts: 1) i'm here in sun city, south africa after 22 hours of flying, 5 hours of airport waiting, and 5 hours of sleeping at a hotel near ...
Trois semaine en Afrique du Sud
... matinée, notre téléphone sonne à 6h. Tout un éveil! Notre guide nous attend dans le foyer afin de nous rendre à Sun City. Nous n'étions pas impressionnés! Il a dû attendre deux heures avant que nous ne soyons prêts. Nous avions 200 kilomètres ...
Sun City is Just OK
... . Sun City is a large resort located just next to a large game reserve. It used to be the only place with gambling in South Africa, they liken it to Las Vegas, I would say more like a cheesy place in Mississippi with gambling that likens itself to Las ...
End of seminar, travel to Pilanesburg Nat Park
... built Sun City was in one of the autonomous homeland kingdoms created by the South African government. They didn't allow gambling in South Africa, but it could happen in the homelands (sort of like the Native American reservation casinos in the US). There ...
Suncity, the Lost Palace
Staying at The Lost Palace at Sun City South Africa has always been of my list of things to do in my life before I die.. and here I am staying here for 2 nights. We arrived just after 2pm our bags removed from car and valet parked. We stayed in room 244. ...
The Palace & Pilansburg National Park.
... , water skiing, ball rooms, bowls green and the list goes on. It even has an artificial wave that can be surfed on!!. Next door to Sun City is the Pilanesberg Game reserve, we took a tour through on the back of a truck. This was our first taste of African ...
Sun City!!!!
We decided to head to Sun City for a well deserved relax, the party in the hire car consisted of myself, Clare and Michael and Josh. Driving in SA is an experience, all road rules are more like guidelines, and speed is everywhere. However we made it, and ...
I can't believe I rode an elephant this morning
It's one of those though decisions to make should I shouldn't I. The elephant ride was pretty expensive especially coming to the end of our travels but I decided if I don't do it it will be the wrong decision. Booked in for the Pilanesberg Sunrise ...
Sun City and Pilanesberg Park
The paradox of South Africa...one week-end in Soweto, the other one in the middle of nowhere (in the previous Bantustan where casino were allowed) where a crazy rich guy decided to build a casino and a theme park for rich white people. It is a mixture of ...
Our first safari adventure!
... day, we woke up at 04:00 and drove into the darkness. Our map was not as helpful as we hoped, it was a map of Southern Africa and its scale was 1: 2,125,000. It is good that the Jeroen is familiar with the area and that the co-pilot always eager to ask ...
Pilanesburg Game Park
... to our chalet at the Bakgatla camp. The Jahns stayed at a neighboring camp called Manyane. Pilanesburg, near the world-famous Sun-City resort (a sort of South African Las Vegas), is located in the crater of a long-extinct volcano. Within the 160-km ...
A Sunrise to remember
Sun City balloon ride I found something that I really wanted to do while we were at Sun City (apart from the mandatory massage & necessary wax). We saw the sun rise over Africa 600 feet above the earth in a hot air balloon. Magical. It was so silent ...
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