Panorama Guest Farm Nelspruit

... for Eden at the time and a heartwarming story still.<br><br>Perhaps the saddest tale in enclosure 2 was that of Cozy, the Crazy Chimpansee (and I mean this in the best way!) When our group arrived on the lookout deck next to the enclosure, he soon came charging in, hurling a rock at us (against the fence of course). Totally excited: hairs raised all over his body and walking upright. Quite an impressive sight and testament to the earlier warnings that you ...

... 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>

Berg en Daal Restcamp, Kruger, 20th September 2009<br><br>We were up early and ready to queue at the gate, and yes it was a big queue. We drove towards Lower Sabie Restcamp keeping on the tar road for most of the way. Paul was beginning to get a bit disappointed as he hadn't seen many big cats in Kruger, then as luck would have it Paul spotted a leopard in a tree quite a distance from the roadside. We managed to get some quite good ...

... back I&#8217;m re-thinking my harsh judgment of South Africa and re-confirming my faith in mankind. When I get back to my padlocked gate I struggle with the padlock as usual, but get inside and close it behind me, once again struggling to replace the padlock. Just then a car full of locals pulls up and two of them get out, walking over. I momentarily tense up, but consciously cool it rather than ...

... so and so's B&amp;B. You can imagine the hysterics when we found we had been booked into a family room. A nice enough double room with a little kiddies bed under the TV for me. We decided to just make do, and spend our savings (you can't charge a kid staying with his parents full rates now, can you) on red wine at dinner. I think the last time it happened was when I was about ten on an overseas trip somewhere. The art work in the room was a series of paintings ...

... get to play with more animals but it's probably for the best. Lunch at the Cheetah Inn is decent at best and we had back to camp for an afternoon nap! We oversleep the afternoon/evening drive but are relieved to find out that we aren't the only ones. The heat is a tricky one as it makes you quite tired without you noticing it. The sunset drive is much more exciting this time around as we see many animals including a rhino! No kills ...

... reef, inte coral reef...). Det ar en fantastiskt vacker resa. Vagen ar omgiven av gronska och mjuka berg. Himlen ar bla idag ocksa. Nagra kilometer fore gransen ligger Buffelspruit, och utanfor byn hittar jag Shongwe hospital. William tar emot i sin egen lilla bungalow i en gron, lummig tradgard! Vilket paradis pa jorden! Han har jobbat sin forsta vecka och det verkar vara ett forhallandevis valfungerande sjkhus, aven om man har brist pa personal. De flesta doktorer och andra ...

... in Nelspruit to take care of these things and she pretty much put a big "X" on the downtown area of the Nelspruit map and said this was a "No Go" area, and it was safer for us to go to a suburban mall called Riverside Mall. This mall was just like any mall in the US... surprisingly it didn't feel different at all. But no Starbucks or McDonalds though, compared to in Berlin.

... which was thoughtful but made me a little uncomfortable that he changed the whole service for just me. When other people were talking Binki would translate for me. It was clear to me that this Sunday service is an important part in the lives of these people. People would stand up and talking about being sick, or their family being sick, and struggling to find work. There are funerals all the time here, and death is no stranger to these people ...

... open roofed Land Cruiser by Dave and Sue, a couple here on holiday from the UK, who are quite nice. [LYNNE: We went on two drives with Dave and Sue and enjoyed their company, but Sue must be one of the worlds pickiest eaters as we discovered when we shared a few dinners with them.] I will leave some of the safari details, such as animal sightings and the like, to LJ (she oft complains that I don't leave her enough to write about), and instead focus on a particular area of ...