Nelspruit Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Nothing much of a story here, just some pictures from the botanical garden in Nelspruit.

We took another red eye from Doha and arrived in Johannesburg 6am the next morning. The locals call it JoBurg - which sounds so much cooler. Crime in JoBurg is supposed to be pretty bad. So, everybody looked kind of suspicous to us... and since there is not much to see in JoBurg anyway, we headed out a few hours later on a shuttle to Nelspurit. ...

Today we flew into Nelspruit and drove about 2 hours to our lodge, Leadwood. This lodge was right on the edge of Kruger National Park, in Sabi Sands, and since it was a private game lodge we were able to anywhere (within Kruger you have to stay on the roads). The houses were beautiful! Each one had a private deck/pool where we were able to loung...

After we left Jo'burg, Mary and I went to Nelspruit on a 6 hour bus ride. It is one of the larger cities in the north-eastern province of Mpumalanga. We came here so that we could visit Kruger National Park. I studied the park in my courses of Wildlife Management in Kenya. The park is unique in the sense that there are fences the entire way arou...

The table on our veranda is covered with an assortment of maps, snacks, cameras and guidebooks. The early afternoon sun is working its way through the clouds, warming our skin as we review the past 24 hours. Our trunk full of provisions (that's safari-speak for groceries), we left Pretoria bright and early Wednesday morning and headed north for ...

Next morning we had a look around Bulembu and purchased some souvenir's something we rarely do. We still have a lovely print (by Tony Hudson) of two Swazi women sitting with their pottery, hanging on our wall. While we were parked checking maps we noticed this amazingly bright flowering tree, possibly a breed of flame tree. I asked a local women...