Town Lodge -Menlo Park- Pretoria

... trip we had already sampled exotic meats like ostrich and kudu, but this was still a unique dining experience. We had zebra (not good), kudu meatballs, kudu sausage, kudu steak (my favorite), waterbuck (also good), crocodile, chicken, beef, and pork. It was a very good meal and a uniquely African one, but I think such a meal should be at the beginning of the program. A more standard restaurant would have sufficed for the farewell dinner. <br><br>Rudolf stole my thunder ...

... leave the car in relative safety and sit in a shelter which allowed us to watch game without them being frightened (or coming after us...). We stopped briefly at the Pilanesburg Center which used to be a municipal building when this area was farmland. We gave a lift to a lady whose party had a flat tire on their borrowed 4WD. She wanted to go to the Center to join her daughter and grandson while her husband organized a spare tire ...

(Katharine) We're leaving South Africa. Jack and Alex are crying their hearts out. We came to Jo'burg to see the Youngs. We took a four hour car trip to Drakensburg, which is where we took hikes that were amazing, beautiful, and spectacular. We swam in the river, and stayed in log cabins. Ramsgate was phenomenal. We had the time of our lives buggy-boarding, and we ate at the famous waffle house. We ...

... and it was a final evening dinner of fish for me and my mum. It was hard to think that soon she would be gone. I hadn't had enough time and I'd been so rushed - all i wanted was to be able to spend time with her, but the work seeped in and it still wasn't done. So she slept a little and I worked a little and all too soon it was ...

... birds (some absolutely gigantic), warthogs, wildebeest. You're not allowed to get out of the vehicle while in the park except for a few viewing areas and the campsites where people can spend the night and where there are restaurants. These are wild animals! Our guide stopped at one of the viewing spots so we could stretch our legs and he brought out a full "brunch spread" that he had packed that morning - sausages, cheeses, hard-boiled eggs, crackers, grapes, stuffed peppers ...

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... de Azucar, Ipanema and Copacabana stretching out before you. I don't mean to say the townships of Joburg were any less shocking but some how it wasn't as contrasting as the paradise beaches framing Zona Sul life of Rio against the endless favelas stretching to the airport. <br><br>The trip was great...nice to be in a cosmopolitan city again, a break from Zambia was needed, or should I say from Lusaka, simply for my own sanity. When one stays too long the things you see ...

... who can tell me where I need to go, who I should speak with, etc. I don't think that they are giving me the run around, I think that they themselves don't really know what is going on. I have gotten involved in the student internal audit group. I am taking two of the post graduate courses, forensic auditing and financial risk management, and the group is small and close knit. They are very ...

... conditioned thank goodness) museum there which gives the history of the Park. Someone had mentioned to us that the Lake Panic bird hide was worth a visit so we made our way there. It was my favourite part of the day. We saw many bird species, two crocodiles who came almost out of the water, a baby crocodile and hippos. That is where we saw the pair of Goliath Herons which AD loved. We spent an hour and a half there and hardly noticed the time pass. When we left we realized ...

... the few Wimpy restaurants that are left are considered to be among the least sophisticated dining establishments around - the sort of place where you don't so much tell the waitress what you want as point to a picture of it on the 'menu'. The Ivy it ain't. Anyway, I would soon discover that in South Africa, Wimpy, along with about half a dozen other fast food chains seemed to provide the staple diet for most of the population. After picking at a toasted cheese sandwich for an ...