Blue Mountain Lodge Kiepersol

... the first refugees, he had been locked up in solitary confinement for about 50 years! Sometime after this, Eden got offered two young Chimps. They had no female to take care of the young chimps and so ended up putting them in the same enclosure as as the old man. To everyone's surprise, after so many years of solitude, Joao had somehow learned or remembered how to act maternal to the young chimps, comforting them, correcting them and teaching them. This was a great ...

... The last animal we saw just 100m from camp was a
big heard of buffalo that blocked the road and nearly made us late.

That evening around the braai as our meat cooked, we wondered on what
tomorrow would bring, one last morning in the park and still no big
cats. Little did we know how lucky we would be.......

Brimming with excitement we were the first out the gates and were heading for
Lower Sabie. The first animal we saw that morning was ...

... way to settle in, but after 2 days we felt we had to move on and tackled the public transport system for the first time - everything and everybody is transported by minibus here, which is loads of fun especially when you find yourself on a very full minibus on a very hot day with a very bog backpack on your knees :-) But we did get to where we wanted to go just fine - Malolotja National Park, on the border to South Africa. Here we spent 3 days ...

... al giorno, in giro per il parco abbiamo veramente visto di tutto: i paesaggi dai piu' lussureggianti vicino ai fiumi ai piu' desolati come la savana rinsecchita, che ha bisogno di acqua ma che non e' ancora arida, vallate e colline, e animali a non finire. Non mi sembrava di vedere mai abbastanza, mi guardavo intorno con la paura di perdermi qualcosa. Purtroppo nemmeno oggi posso inerire le foto, ma ne ho fatte di ...

... a night drive through the campgrounds. Even though we just drove around the same roads that we could have driven ourselves during the day, dusk and early evening is a great time for viewing animals (and we're not allowed outside of the gated camp sites after dusk unless we're with an armed guide). At one point, we had three Cheetahs playing to ...

... lions as I was booked to go on a night drive. On the night drive we went back to the lions for a little while then moved on. It was great moving on because we got to see and hear something far better than lions stalking some zebra. We got to see two male lions (one with a full mane). They were a little ways from the lionesses (letting them do all the work) but soon after we spotted them they started roaring. To hear a lion roar in the wild it something I ...

These days it feels as though I have less to report because my daily routine is just about the same everyday. I have been invited to a wedding party and a baby shower for the weekend of the 17th of March, which will be my last weekend in Barberton. I have become increasingly comfortable at the school everyday with the children. This month more should be showing up, but so far it's only the thirteen kids in the class. I find it quite amusing that the ...

... job, I guess the "Emergency Exit" sign taped on the back window of the truck was the start of me figuring it out. On the drive to Barberton I was introduced to the most dangerous thing on my trip, and it;s not malaria it's defiantly driving. People drive pretty crazy around here, I think they sort of have their own rules that work- but I don't know what they are so I get a little freaked out. My first introduction to Africa outside of ...

... Let me just say that this woman made it clear, on several occasions, that she does not like NYC. How many people have you met who feel that way? Moreover, she did not even realize that her bashing Americans to us was obnoxious. The more I think about her, the more I dislike her, and I regret not giving her a piece of my mind, because I would have done a dandy job of it.] Again, this update is being finished on the evening of Friday June 16, despite when it might appear online ...

... are now called the 'gecko-**** pants' for obvious reasons: he **** on them twice), a few roaches in my bed tickling me, families of mice up on the roof peeing down on our stuff and also spreading ****** pellets on our beds, I'm back to the world of comfort and roach-free privacy in my 3-man tent at Lower Sabie, Kruger. The outer tent isn't necessary ...