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Punda Maria Camp, Kruger National Park, 14th & 15th September 2009

From Tuli Safari Lodge it was just a short drive to the border post of Pont Drift. This post is not open all year so you need to check first to see if it is passable as we were to drive across the Limpopo River. Luckily for us the river was well down even though here too they had had good rains earlier in the year. First though we had to have our passports stamped by the ...

Tuli Safari Lodge, Tuli Block 13th September 2009

From Palapye we took the minor roads to Sebeli Phikwe where we did some more shopping at Spar. This is a big town and even on a Sunday morning there were plenty of people in the town. We have to shop regular as the fridge in the landcruiser is not very big and with the temperature now rising in Botswana we have to buy fresh vegetables as and when we need them. Then it was down to the Tuli Block in ...

The Tour de Tuli is a 4 day, 5 night mountain bike ride in the Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa bush to raise funds for Children in the Wilderness. CITW runs camps for local children to promote conservation of natural resources - the land, water and wildlife.



Aug 3

5 a.m. departure from the hotel for a 6 a.m. bus ride - the goal being to reach the Botswana border before it closes at 4 p.m. Two buses packed with riders - mostly strangers, mostly white ...

Wow.......I've heard about the South African skies.............now I've seen them. For the most part the sky is blue (an incredibly clear blue) with only a smattering of very white clouds. I've seen snippits of sunsets until yesterday.We drove to Kruger Park..........leaving at 5 am. We saw the sunrise.........beautiful.........after a day in driving and searching for animals to view in their natural settting. The sun was just beginning to set as we were making ...

... 5.114 Giraffes--------Saw 5.798 Greater Kudus------Saw 3,000 Hippopotamus-----Saw 1,500 Lions-------------Saw 1,000 Leopards 2,000 Spotted Hyenas 11.672 Elephants-------Saw 5,000 Waterbuck-------Saw 9.612 Blue Wildebeest------Saw 90,000 Impalas----------Saw Many were at some distance and therefore could not get any pictures of these, which were any good. But the ones I got came out fine

... is the largest game reserve in South Africa. It covers 7,332 sq miles and extends 217 miles from north to south and 37 miles from east to west. In 1898 Paul Kruger, the president of the Transvaal Republic, created Sabie Game Reserve in order to control hunting and protect the diminished number of animals in the park. James Stevenson Hamilton became the first warden of the reserve in 1902. The reserve was ...

so ich bin zwar schon allerdings in melbourne, aber ihr sollt wenigstens noch ne info ueber south africa und dem letzten project bekommen :) ES WAR TOLL !!!!! bilder kommen nun auch von beiden projekten....bin zu faul um es zu trennen :)

... its almost over!!! ANIMALS!!! warthog (my favorite!!! SOOO cute- in that ugly way) , baboons & monkeys, giraffe, zebra, kudos, & Elephants!!! On our baobab searches, we go to some game parks as well. And, sometimes just see animals crossing the road, or behind a fence on a "reserve" or private land. BAOBAB BAR!! The first night we stayed at a hostel-like place, that has one ...

... referred to as the Great Zimbabwe Ruins, of an ancient Southern African city. theempire ruled territory now falling within the modern states of Zimbabwe (which took its name from this city) and Mozambique. The ruins can be broken down into three distinct groups. I only did the Hill Complex and the famous Great Enclosure. I really enjoyed walking around there, and I was quite impressed by Great Enclosure. See pictures. I also had kind of a scary lizard experience up in Hill Complex ...

I have been working in and out of South Africa for the past 3 years in 2006, 2007 and 2008. I first started working in South Africa in January of 2006 when I first started working for Travellers Worldwide. My first period of work was in Giyani a small town in the Limpopo province close to the Kruger National Park and Zimbabwe. My job there was to establish our new sports projects in a school called Khanysia which was a private school that catered for mainly black children ...