We went with Justin and Claudia to the local crocodile breeding park to see how it all worked, it is only a few minutes away from the farm so very local. They breed the African Nile Crocodile here. There are over a 1000 crocodile's housed in the dams and they are mainly bred for export, the main market being Italy. The first croc we were introduced to was a female one called stumpy, she was born without a tail so would normally drown and therefore is kept sepa...

Justin woke us up saying that we were going to the beach and we had half an hour till we were going to leave! Nice wakeup call! We piled in the Toyota Fortuna with him and Claudia (Justin's girlfriend) half an hour later and discovered our destination is a place called Langebaan (Lang-er-barn) which is about an hour's drive away and further up the coast from Cape Town and our usual destinations. We were planning to stop on the way for food and drinks and Jus...

We had decided to go to the local butterfly farm which had been highly recommended by several people, it was not just butterfly's though it also had lizards, spiders, monkeys, snakes and various birds. Once we had parked up we headed in first stop the ice cream department it was so hot! Then we went in to the enclosure where it was still warm and there were loads of butterfly's all over the place. There was a hatchery as well which showed all of the cocoon's a...

We arrived in Cape Town and my Dad, Terry and Step Mum, Annabel were at the airport waiting to pick us up. The drive back to the farm (Sorrento Stud) was a long one due to road works on the N1 so we had to take a long detour which didn't help us with our sense of direction. The farm itself is near a town called Paarl, the wineland area, which is actually about 60 miles away from Cape Town itself although if you look at it on a map it really doesn't look that ...

We made our way to Sao Paulo on the Sunday bus from Paraty, it was only a short six hour journey so we arrived at about six o'clock in the evening after the driver had taken a few wrong turns! Some of the Brazilians were getting a bit miffed but we eventually arrived. As usual we went to the local tourist information office to plan our route to the hostel we had booked. Sao Paulo is a city with a population of 20 million people so it is vast, but it does seem...