Mercure Premier Lodge Nelspruit

... 12: 15pm that day, almost exactly 24hrs after<br>entering knowing we had experienced the best Africa has to<br>offer....................<br><br> Animals (pretty much) in order of appearance in 24hrs:<br><br>Elephant; impala; zebra; warthog; kudu; grey duiker; wilderbeest; rhino;<br>steenbok; slender mongoose; water buck; bushbuck; giraffe; banded<br>mongoose; buffalo; tsessebe; hyena; honeybadger; vervet monkey; dwarf<br>mongoose; baboon; leopard; cheetah; hippo; crocodile.<br>

... pity as they stacked their enormous fires with more and more wood to the barbeque half the meat counter for dinner hehe...<br><br>Treating ourselves to the luxury of a proper bed tonight after a week and a half of camping, before setting off to Blyde River Canyon tomorrow, where some more hiking awaits in the world's third biggest canyon... and some more pasta and sauce I guess ;-)<br><br>Hope you are all well, lots of love from South Africa xxx<br><br>

... some bat boxes and bats were flying around that night. We also heard hyenas several times throughout the night. This too like Skukuza is very popular camp for weekenders at it near to one of the main entrance gates and not too far from Nelspruit and other South African towns.<br><br>This was our last stop in Kruger National Park. We had really enjoyed our stay here, had seen animals/birds we didn&#8217;t see last year. Our ...

... and all sorts of Pythons, some of these can be found to reach lengths exceeding 3 metres, real lot of lovely creatures "arn't they". Of course there is the famous Kruger Wild Life Park which must be largest park in SA and it backs onto the Mozambique Limpopo Park which in itself is also very big. In this large area there has an enormous range of wild animals starting with the big 4 and almost all of the other wild ...

Saubona! Dit betekent dus "Goedendag of Hallo" en niet Yebbo gogo wat ik eerst dacht. Yebbo gogo is namelijk een grapje voor een reclame van Vodacom (gsm operator) en betekent "Ja Oma" oepsie dus :-)! 24/01/2008 Een fantastische verjaardag gehad in een Wildpark dan nog! Midden in Krugerpark tussen de wilde beesten! 'S Avonds hebben we dan gebraaid (Afrikaanse Barbecue) en Amarula gedronken (die ik ...

... dus niet echt iets waarop we 100% konden betrouwen dat alles in orde was! Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport... de naam alleen al is indrukwekkend, de luchthaven op zich geeft een heel ander beeld! Een kleine luchthaven, maar wel gezellig! Chris, onze taxichauffeur, staat ons op te wachten en in een oude taxi met ferme radio vervoert hij ons naar de Funky Monkeys in Nelspruit. We boeken er een safari in Krugerpark voor morgen, een bezoek aan ...

I just wanted to put an entry in announcing that I am going to start running an after school soccer program for one of the primary schools in Barberton. I know of a handful of family friends who have been interested in sending supplies to the programs that I am working on. Since this soccer program will need some soccer balls to get off the ground I thought that I ...

... to which I am, in fact, entitled). Needless to say, we were not impressed with the hotel at this point, although they relented and we ended up with an excellent room on the "Club" floor. The room, as with the entire hotel (excepting the service), was really nice, recently renovated, and well decorated. It sported a huge bathroom, and a lot of space overall. It was too bad that we would only be one night! Moreover, we had access to two computers with high-speed Internet, in ...

... bits with their AK's!!. So we were quite relieved to get over the border. The area here is very picturesque, the road passes through a saddle back splitting the Song Mveld Game Reserve and the Malolotja Nature Reserve. We stopped for a while to take in the view (and get over the border crossing) when we noticed a cable car with buckets rather than seats hauling something from Swaziland into South Africa. We found out later that it was asbestos, obviously they had not caught up with ...