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South African adventure begins.
... less we all had a positive attitude.
After sorting things out, we are on our way to our beds for the night, however, before resting we arrived at a place called Little Eden's, a center for the intellectually disabled. A great way to start our adventure, it was truly a special place, and the folks running the facility had an unconditional love for the patients. At times I felt very sad ...
49 bottles of beer
After a 15 hour flight from New York I landed in Johannesburg ready for sleep. Luckily, newly part qualified game ranger with a beard, Justin was meeting me at the airport.
It was more than a relief to not have to immediately start working out where to go and how to get there. We jumped in the hire car and headed straight to the hotel where I spent most of the next two days sleeping. We did try out the hotel ...
The mighty Kruger park and some dung
So here we go on another game drive, this time through Polokwane game reserve. Another early morning start - so what else is new? We're getting used to this by now, and can't sleep in even if we wanted to. It is a rare luxury to arrive at a campsite in the daylight and leave in daylight.
So Johan pulled the truck over on the dirt road, drew a line in the sand and told us of the tradition of dung spitting. You pick up a ...
Opening ceremony, power cut, lions!!!!
... went around slightly and it stepped aside. All the other lion seemed to be smelling around the back of each car, not sure what for but we watched other cars leaving and the lion were climbing all over them and one was chewing on the wing mirror.
Now we had a hire car and any damage like that would be a nightmare....we waiting far from the exit until the guard opened the gate then went for it....3 lion came running for our little green car ...
Chaos
... best I can describe it is as Pratt St with no marked lanes after a Ravens game, orioles games and an arena concert let out at the same time. Red lights mean nothing. People walk down the middle of the street. Everyone tries selling you something. It is pure chaos. There are Police around but apparently it takes 3 cops to write 1 parking ticket. We witnessed an accident where two men could agree who was at fault (one guy rear-ended the other) so one ...
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