Shiluvari Lakeside Lodge
Travel Blogs from Louis Trichardt
Elefanten und Dinner
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Schnell weiter vielleicht können wir noch etwas im Busch ausmachen. Leider nein, es bleibt bei den Spuren.
Nach dem Gate rechts auf die R40 und weiter auf die R71 bis Tzaneen.
Bevor wir unser Unterkunft für heute Nacht aufsuchen, erkunden wir noch die Umgebung von Tzaneen.
Wir fahren auf der R71 weiter in das Magoesbaskloof-Gebiet - durch dichten Urwald, Teeplantagen und vorbei an Obstplantagen und ...
Dripping washing, poo fight and film night
... won't be easy to get dry again afterwards! Might make tea instead.
Had to dig the car out on the way back from lunch. Ended up walking back to camp to collect a shovel before going back to dig out the car. Quite a fun use of several hours. Me ans Stine had a mud and then a poo fight. She headshotted me twice with poo which hurt a bit as it's so dry!
Read for the ...
Flip flop success
Maintenance day. Washed tack, poo-picked paddocks, cleaned and fed pigs and jackal, cleaned out tackroom, fed horses, washed girths and saddlepads and fixed the hay shelter. Came back and helped cook lunch and dinnr as well as wash the plates.
Certainly a novelty having to wear a waterproof in order to go to the bathroom. Open air shorwer/loo has definitely lost itrs appeal especially if you forget to bring your loo roll in and it either a) ...
This is Africa
... Each one growing its own larder... the area shows little european influence and has some strong craft based communes. Tsonga and VaVenda peoples are working side by side in workshops and our guide who had quite marked political ideals, took us to some of the indigenous culture initiatives which are remarkable as they are funded by the locals themselves to try ...
Following 'The Breaker'
... although mainly unused ruins of the Sweetwaters Hotel, which was used by the BVC as a HQ's
Not to far away we went to the monument and graves of Fort Edward itself. This was where the BVC carried out their patrols from at different times. Located on a ridge line the small cemetery consists of just four graves. The 4 original grave markers from the A-B War once marked the graves of 4 British troops that were buried in Charles family ...