Protea Hotel Ll Polokwane Pietersburg

... meat for the first time! Very very nice!


Cheetah Park
The following day we went along to the de Wildt Cheetah Park with Paul's younger cousin Edene and her friend – so here we could tick both cheetah's and wild dogs off our list! This was a nice reserve where the area was donated by Anne de Wildt's children.


Firstly they introduced three of their cheetah ambassadors which ran for us, first up was Dee who was quite skittish but she ...

Hey all!CAN YOU BELIEVE IT! Today is our last working day! We leave tomorrow morning around 10:30 for the airport. We should arrive in Cape Town around dinner time 6ish I believe and we will be there until Thursday night 10:30 when our next flight leaves for Amsterdam.The last few days here have been good but also a little rough. Were still not 100% recovered from our sicknesses and some of our group has left over the last ...

... awaits. Im going to try to write to you guys one more time before we leave here because Im not sure if we'll have time for internet once we've left were going to have a really tight sight seeing/flying schedule but Ill do my best as always! I still cant believe I only have 4 sleeps left at Moholoholo. Time has flown by. I dont want to leave my new friends, i dont want to leave the animals and I certainly DONT want to go back to work lol !!!! Love and miss you all very much!! Annie xoxox

... darn blog, so we have opted for face book...apparenlty i am the only person ever at moholoholo NOT on face book.....so......yep....i gave in. there are a fraction of my photos on there now, so anyone on can look me up and see some pics. those who are not, don't worry, i'll get to show you the actual pics soon. hope everyone is doing well, talk to you later! a.

... went in search for it and we found it! YAY. one young male, maybe a few months old I think but im not sure. SO cute and so cool to finally find it after 3 days of searching! On more annoying news, my back is not better, still hurts like heck, Adrienne is sick and Im not feeling too awesome today but hopefully I dont catch whatever she has, poor Adrienne. Alright well thats all for now. When I go to town this week Ill try to upload more photos for you guys! Love and miss you Annie xoxox

... on our way to Botswana, but we got some great photos of purple flowering trees (Beth's favorite!!) Even though we spend a lot of time driving, it's well worth it. From Kruger to Pietersburg, we had mountains in the mist and banana plantations for as far as we could see. Even the small shanty villages between "towns" are beautiful in their own way.

... was also entranced (as usual) by the insects. One of the strangest: the dung beetle. These nasty looking bugs are slightly smaller than a deck of cards, and they FLY. They buzz loudly past your head and for a split second you think it's a hummingbird. Not so. They lay their eggs in piles of dung, roll it up into a ball, and then the larvae then eat their way out to go on to become big, nasty adult dung beetles themselves. Fascinating. Posted are some photos of the ...

... We'd been warned the night before not to wear anything smelly (perfumed products) and not to wear bright colours, so as not to scare the animals off. We'd also been given advice about what to do if we came across any wildlife. No running, keep quite and stay behind the guides. A key thing was to keep quite on the walk, something some people seemed to have more of a problem with than others, which was a little irritating! It was bizarre to think that ...

... which it plunges. Many of the miners were Scottish, and therefore the camp was named Mac-Mac. We travelled through 'Long Tom Pass' - so called due to the cannon used by the Boers to fight the English, and stopped at Pilgrim's rest, an old mining town. It reminded me a bit of the South African equivalent of the Black Country Museum (for those of you who have been to Dudley in the West Midlands!), but was an insight into the mining past of this part of the world. We ...

... said he had no rooms but when he found we w**e leaving that night he decided he had a room at their guest house and would take us and also arrange a taxi to pick us up at 12.30am. Excellent. Off we went, and w**e a little conc**ned when the nearby guest house was about two km away in a down trodden residential area. We unloaded and the manag** spoke to a local women and we w**e shown to our room. Lat** when Avan had woken from a fitful sleep, n ...