Bayala Game Lodge
Travel Blogs from Hluhluwe
This and That
... I am currently watching Blood Diamond and it only radiates the pain I feel for this continent. So much beauty is within and it is trapped with poverty, violence, and bloodshed. Half the time I want to be a politician, the other half I want a gun to fight myself. If I felt that 99% of the organizations that are charged with helping weren’t corrupt, I would try and get some sort of job to do so.
One of my favorite things about camp, is the 10 week lab-chow ...
From Durban to Bonamanzi
... verticle stripes along their flanks. We also saw some crocodiles, vervet monkeys, and zebras wandering around the property. In places where game sightings are few, the rangers provide a lot of information about the local vegetation and the signs that animals leave behind. We all became experts on rhino dung, elephant damage, and the local fruits called monkey oranges.
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LOVELY ZULUS, AND EXCITING ANIMALS
... pointed his dagger-like beak to the side, so he could eye me eyeing him through binoculars. His upper body was off-white, his wings brown, and his lower body a radioactive green like hair gel.
A baby rhino also eyed me. His puny, black eye feared but wondered. His inflated body sagged a bit. He had a huge nose. His mother's horn was a sharp, curved saber. She hadn't used it to fight with, like adult males commonly ...
A restless nomad
... life crisis for now. So with just three days left on the reserve before I end the wildlife project, I find that I am ready for the next leg of my African adventure. Africa is certainly doing well to charm my senses, although I realised today that it hasn't quite gotten under my skin in the same way my very short time in India managed. There's still plenty of time however and I'm very excited to experience Mozambique and ...
Losing sense of time
... departing destination of Cape Town are on my agenda - and with inevitable long bus journeys ahead of me to cover such ground, five weeks seems a little more feasible. I already know that I would love to return to Africa again in the future, with Malawi, Kenya, and Botwsana just a few of the earmarked destinations I would like to cover and explore at some point. It all just depends on ...