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Travel Blogs from Pilanesberg National Park
The Warm up
We are back now from our warm up trip to South Africa, and quite stunning it was as well, after a very bouncy 11 hour flight we arrived early morning at Johannesburg airport. Then we stayed at Sun City for 7 nights, what a fun place that is, from the beach to the casino and all the other activities in-between and once you are there everything is so …
On Safari
... back and enjoying the scenery. The park is very beautiful - it's geology is volcanic which means there are plenty of mountains and the formation of the rocks is similar to that of Joshua Tree National Park in America. It's of course, much more lush and green.
After we got back and had breakfast, we decided to chill in our chalet for a bit. We actually fell asleep reading and woke up after lunch! We had lunch and then decided to book ourselves in ...
More of the Same Animals
... There was a mother and her two young ones. We watched them as they ran behind the car and over the rocks until they were out of sight. I explained to Lotta that it was quite rare to see them and how lucky we were. We looked at the wildebeest again and again they were acting funny. There was a black backed jackal running near them which seemed to bother the herd.
Further along Tshepe we came to another herd of wildebeest. This herd was moving in a straight line. It ...
In Search of the Big 5
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As we left the hide we came across a herd of grazing springbok- the national mammal. I then had a feeling about some rocks in the distance so I used the binoculars. Elephants! I was glad we saw some, but they were too far away to properly see.
We were now heading in the direction of the Moloto Plains via Thutlwe and Safara Drive. Our sightings were greatly improving. On the way to the plains we saw some ostriches, zebra and finally a close sighting of ...
Girls Trip
... confident though, as it will be during the day and I won’t be driving in any towns, only through small villages. A word of advice from Deon was to watch out for children and goats. It took me an hour and half to arrive at Sun Village, near Suncity where I would be meeting Lotta who is getting a bus from Johannesberg Airport.
When I was close to Sun Village I got a text from Lotta saying she was early as she had caught a taxi with some local ...