Gwalagwala
Travel Blogs from Hoedspruit
Safari II
... unverrichteter Dinge ins Camp zurück, wo das Frühsück bereits auf uns wartet.
Gemeinsam wird ggefrühstückt - die Omlets werden von Tony, dem Chef der Lodge persönlich zubereitet.
Danach kann jeder, bis zur Nachmittags Pirsch das tun, wozu er Lust hat. Wir beschließen noch eine Runde zu mützeln.
Gegen 11.30 schnappe ich mir dann mein Netbook und versuche die letzten Tag niederzuschreiben. Ich setze mich zu Steve - auf er ...
Safari Kids...
... military wing. After years of trying to overturn the government politically and peacefully without success they decided that the only way forward was to move to a violent fight and they planned acts of sabotage and guerrilla war with all meetings being held at Liliesleaf. Police raided the place in 1963 after a tip off, and made several arrests, which resulted in the 'Rivonia trial', in which Mandela addressed the court from the dock for a period of approximately 5 ...
Africa
... a buffalo chased him up a tree and he had to radio for help. The guides chatter on the two-way radio all the time, telling each other where they have spotted game. They chat in the local language so the guests don’t know what they are talking about as they like to surprise you. I got to recognise a few words. Ngala is lion and mkhumbi is rhino. We always knew if the radio message was about a leopard as suddenly the guide would drive like a bat out ...
Moholoholo
... introduced a female into his pen, the first thing he did was push her into the corner, climb onto her head and try to use her as a ladder to climb out. They were really cute but I really went off them when we were told that the male hated humans and would try to kill anyone if he was able to get out, and the way he would do that would be to bite the crown jewels... off! It was all a bit strange how many of these animals had grown to hate humans!
My youngest cousin, ...
Beyond my wildest dreams...
... even getting to Gomo Gomo, we saw a giraffe on the side of the road, you would not believe how exciting it was to see a real live giraffe in the wild, it was at this moment that I knew I was going to love this part of our journey. As we kept driving, it just kept getting better, we then spotted two hippopotamus’ in the water, I learnt that hippo’s kill more humans than any other animal in the world, interesting fact. A little further down the road, we come across ...