A Beautiful corner of South Africa

Trip Start Jul 26, 2007
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Trip End Sep 27, 2007


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Flag of South Africa  , Mpumalanga,
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Arrived in SA at the end of September for 3 weeks holiday only and the weather was pleasant not too hot, our place of abode was just outside of Nelspruit some 40 Ks south west of the township in a small place called Ngodwana. The whole area is either a national park or forest lands and loads of them, mainly for the use of the local paper factory. The whole area is very hilly, even mountainous it being part of the Draken mountains range. The area is crisscrossed by lots of streams and small rivers and artificial lakes. Apart from the local and national Game parks the area is also rife with lots of wild life but not the large types found in the game parks, there are no end of monkeys, baboons and snakes of all types are to be found there. What is categorised as the worlds most dangerous snakes the Black Mambaare to found there, the Mozambique Spitting Cobra and all sorts of Pythons, some of these can be found to reach lengths exceeding 3 metres, real lot of lovely creatures "arn't they".
Of course there is the famous Kruger Wild Life Park which must be largest park in SA and it backs onto the Mozambique Limpopo Park which in itself is also very big. In this large area there has an enormous range of wild animals starting with the big 4 and almost all of the other wild animals found in Africa.
To the west of the Kruger an area we travelled through quite a lot is a mountainous and very fertile area covered with forests farm land small townships and a lot of SA modern history of their settlement and later on their armed strife with the British army. I very much recommend a visit to this corner of the world, it's not off the map it's not wild open places but all the same very beautiful and interesting.
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