Dumazulu Traditional Village And Lodge Hluhluwe
Hluhluwe Road, Front, Hluhluwe, 3960 Hluhluwe, KwaZulu-Natal, 3960, South Africa
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Boys will be Boys
... foot patrols, sniffing out all sorts of animal traces. Manzi also lived up to his name, plunging into every muddy waterhole we passed.
I stayed for 3 days before I had to move on. It was less than a days drive to Durban and I was due to hand Mozza back to his rightful owners. I was in no rush to part with my old mate, so I took the scenic back road...but I couldn't hold on forever...
[23,850km to ...
Welcome to South Africa
... her up!
Crossing the Swazi/South African border must have been on of the quickest crossings yet! It took only about half an hour on both side through well organised and clean immigration office buildings. And he we were on the other side of the continent. The south of Africa. I felt quite emotional! The hills after the border were striking. Again, more acacias.
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Experts in dung
... a bit funny.
We also learnt that, while it is important to stand down-wind from an elephant, to hide your scent, something that eats 150kg a day ***** a lot. Not to mention that when their dung hits the ground you can feel & hear it, without even seeing them.
It was also important to stand up-wind of a few of the oaks (SA for blokes) in our group, especially after a boiled egg lunch. Definitely wind direction quickly becomes one ...
Box surprises
... felt like opening an advent calendar given to you by your worst enemy! The one treat inside one of the cameras was a very cold, hatchling rock monitor lizard, who'd managed to find his way in, but obviously not worked out his exit route. He soon warmed up on our hands, and took no time in trying to bite before deciding he quite liked running across heads, shoulders and arms, and sleeping back in cupped hands. We ...
Magpie traveller
... So it was a morning of normalities - breakfast, in which I headed straight for the bacon - and a load of washing. With the group back at 10am after monitoring, we all headed over to the management office to make use of the Internet but with no wireless connection available, those who needed to check flight details etc took priority, while the rest of us busied ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Dumazulu



