posted by Noah The "table cloth" on Table Mountain was extremely thick today, so our plans to start the day there were foiled again. That meant we had all day to head to Simons Town to see the penguins on Boulder Beach. But first we headed to the pannekoeken place in the Waterfront to sample the Dutch-style pancakes we had enjoyed so much in Amsterdam. They had a limited breakfast menu, including only one pancake dish, a savory one with eggs and bac...

Posted by Amanda Another early morning game drive ended up catless. We got in Patrick's vehicle. Most of us in that one had missed the lions yesterday. It turned out that the gate from our camp into the park didn't open until 5:30 so we sat in the vehicles for a half hour. We did see some cool animals—a hyena trying to eat a turtle, a leopard tortoise which is one of the little five, and a buffalo in addition to the usual suspects of the giraffe and el...

Posted by Amanda We had a touch of a disappointing day today. We went out in the early morning for our first drive in Lucky's van. When he shuttled us from the entrance to our camp yesterday, it was great that he went fast. It meant we got a good tent. On a safari drive, it wasn't so good to go fast. We were the only van that didn't see a lion. We just zoomed along probably passing thousands of lions, but not seeing them. We did see some kudu, a million i...

Posted by Amanda We had a long day of travel today. At the bright and early hour of 3:15 we got on a bus to the airport. We scheduled an independant safari that 60 other SAS students also scheduled independantly. One of the organizers of the bigger group got us a bus to the airport for a very reasonable price. We flew from Cape Town to Johannesburg then had a long 6 hour drive to Kruger National Park. Of course we slept most of the way. At our one stop, I ...

Posted by Amanda We arrived in Cape Town this morning. I was desperate to love Cape Town and it did not disappoint. So far it is wonderful. They told us the harbor is beautiful and well worth waking early to see our arrival. We did just that. We watched the beginnings of the sunrise while it illuminated Table Mountain. The deck was chilly so we didn't stay out long. During the diplomatic briefing they discussed the very high murder rate and the high num...