South Africa Safari + Roadtrip 2 back to capetown

Trip Start Mar 01, 2008
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Trip End Sep 2008


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Flag of South Africa  , KwaZulu-Natal,
Monday, September 22, 2008

From staying with the much loved Botha family we decided it was now time to go on a real African Safari Reneedar/ Andre style. We took about a two hour drive north of Durban to the Hluhluwe-Umfulozi game Reserve.
On our way up we stopped of to pick up a few Savannah Drys, this was quite refreshing to have with the atmosphere we were getting involved in. After our stop we headed back off to arrive at the game Reserve.
We took a break at the gate to see what route we should take, the park is quite massive! We were really looking for to seeing quite a few different animals. We were lucky enough to come by a few Elephants in the distance. Unfortunately we could not see them face to face. We were really looking forward to see some giraffe, Lions Tigers and bears! Well not bears but unfortunately they were camouflage with the brush.
we were quite lucky to see quite a few zebra's, springbok,(basically deers) these terrible monkeys Baboons with vengeance teeth, some lovely horse with stripes (zebra) I tried to ride one. it decided to run off on me.
 for some reason all these animals were quite afraid of humans.
the Wildebeest Masters were very good at lounging until we arrived.
also we came across a few buffalo.
  We headed back on the road to Capetown, seeing more lovely scenery, and some bad accidents as the weather was super windy and roads winding around mountains,  driving through Lesotho stopping of at a real motel in Bloemfontein or something Sharky
Sharky
 . the town was really small, we stumbled in to what we found a nice little motel, The theme of the place was out of a  70's kinda scandalous. We ate at some chain restaurant i tried to order a pizza with only cheese and tomato sauce. they did not understand it came out with ketchup and cheese. (Quite gross). At least we had a cheap bottle of wine to make up for the pizza as well all indulged in. later on Renee went to the room and Andre and I decided to bond some more. we took a tour around the motel found some sweet rooms to have a few drinks at and some interesting people. with that it was now time to go to bed and wake up to continue our road trip back to Capetown. Andre and Ray switch driving while Renee was being chauffeur in the back,  from the drive we saw quite a few white cap mountains, wine farms and a few trucks over flipped from the heavy wind. finally we reached Capetown, only staying for a few more days meeting up with some newly met and old friends one last time before we head across the bumpy Atlantic Ocean for Buenos Aires, Argentina

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nature giving us air nature giving us air more nature more nature pyramids in capetown who would of thought pyramids in capetown who would of thought a few more pryamids scrapping in a few more pryamids scrapping in
south african cottage south african cottage red label treated us well red label treated us well a couple of the local fellows hanging out a couple of the local fellows hanging out this is wear you drop your dirty laundry this is wear you drop your dirty laundry
best place to lounge with a cold one best place to lounge with a cold one mooooeeewwww vit mooooeeewwww vit we are almost there we are almost there Zebra's Zebra's
sprinkbok sprinkbok Renee horses Renee horses more sprinkbok more sprinkbok deers hanging out deers hanging out
grabbing a bite grabbing a bite Elephant Elephant 2 2 charging charging
having a moment to themselves having a moment to themselves Wildebeest lounging with a black label Wildebeest lounging with a black label this springbok came to keep him company this springbok came to keep him company damn Baboons damn Baboons
they will steal anything from you they will steal anything from you Dumbo Dumbo skulls skulls i need your skull i need your skull
more skulls more skulls dre/ ray loving the skulls dre/ ray loving the skulls goodtimes goodtimes baboon baboon
Dont attack me Dont attack me aww aww pretty pretty warthog warthog
trying to chill with the wildlife trying to chill with the wildlife Dre Raydar wild ones Dre Raydar wild ones Renee getting wild Renee getting wild lovely lovely
quite a family portrait, minus Ab and Scottie quite a family portrait, minus Ab and Scottie deer deer Zebra Zebra taking a bite out of his leg taking a bite out of his leg
run Zebra run run Zebra run Safari times Safari times Hog Hog finally some cute monkeys finally some cute monkeys
and some more with very long tail and some more with very long tail longtail swinging along longtail swinging along massive Wildebeest with some fierce horns massive Wildebeest with some fierce horns still laying still laying
getting up getting ready to go on a run. getting up getting ready to go on a run. Dre Ray Dre Ray Our Landcruiser (safari mobile) Our Landcruiser (safari mobile) hog one hog two, hog one hog two,
Sonic Sonic Little birdie Tweet Little birdie Tweet 1-Zebra 1-Zebra Hippo's in the distance Hippo's in the distance
the wild ones getting along well the wild ones getting along well isnt this sweet isnt this sweet andre andre ray ray
renee renee huhoy, Renee sinking a hole in one huhoy, Renee sinking a hole in one put put put put 1-put put 1-put put
2-put put 2-put put 3-put put 3-put put scenary scenary 1-scenary 1-scenary
south african land south african land mountain mountain whicked tree whicked tree water hole water hole
ray driving ray driving south african scenary south african scenary land scape land scape timber! timber!
road work road work wind mill wind mill south african valcano in the distance south african valcano in the distance sunset sunset
2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5
6 sensitive times for us 6 sensitive times for us windmill, windmill, fullmoon fullmoon = accidents = accidents
facail facail dre painting dre painting painting painting 1-painting 1-painting
cheers cheers striking moon striking moon dre's new friend dre's new friend 1-2 1-2
Raydar lounging Raydar lounging 2-2 2-2 andre smoking andre smoking dre dre
andre gave ray flowers andre gave ray flowers local local tree tree 1-andre 1-andre
1-ray 1-ray dude dude ray lounging ray lounging ray checking out the map ray checking out the map
1-ray driving 1-ray driving 456 k to Capetown 456 k to Capetown petrol petrol bb bar bb bar
remains us of ny winters remains us of ny winters facial facial poor guy. poor guy. more driving more driving
more mountains more mountains more more hexing times hexing times shanty towns shanty towns
3-2 3-2 1-3 1-3 no hitch hiking no hitch hiking Another facial Another facial
tunnel tunnel table mountain table mountain massive windmill massive windmill 2-andre 2-andre
2-ray 2-ray 3-ray 3-ray ray and andre ray and andre afroman afroman
renee and afro man renee and afro man forest forest capetown capetown 1-table mountain 1-table mountain
lions head lions head jaguar jaguar jaguar 2 jaguar 2 jaguar 3 jaguar 3
more of table mountain more of table mountain another picture another picture pretty pretty ahh savannahs ahh savannahs
llundundo llundundo llunduno top ten on travel channel llunduno top ten on travel channel raydar, renee and seth raydar, renee and seth beach beach
1-beach 1-beach 2-beach 2-beach 3-beach 3-beach ray jaco ray jaco
renee beach renee beach seth and puppy seth and puppy cleaning dres puke cleaning dres puke ray party time ray party time
dweller dweller dre had too much dre had too much pass out being out pass out being out seddy seddy
dreseth dreseth dre seth dre seth ray marcus ray marcus ray likes his teddy and laptop ray likes his teddy and laptop
peacock peacock ruffling his feathers ruffling his feathers pretty peacock pretty peacock long tail long tail
chasing after his lady chasing after his lady bye bye south africa bye bye south africa bye south africa ocean bye south africa ocean bye mountains bye mountains
bye bye
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