The Garden Route After hitting town with the Grey High School teachers, I wasn't quite prepared for the early 5am start inflicted on me by my father. Parental supersivion is unfortunatley exactly what I need. I felt awful, head banging and rather light headed, we made it onto the bus to start the garden route, eyes closed head spinning, window open, with a bottle of water... an excellent beginning. First stop, Storms river. After a little nap and shower I felt ...

Next destination, Port Elizabeth, a place which people in South Africa have been rather unforgiving about. I however, can dispel this myth as I think it is a lovely place which I would recommend and where I could have stayed for a very long time. Anyway Dad and I drove back along the coast from the Karoo to get there. It was pretty amazing, every hill/mountain we drove over you were presented with another incredible view of the wild bays and coastline. We stopped...

Next stop, Prince Albert to stay with a long standing family friend Liz (Dad met Liz when he was in Zimbabwe all those years ago) Liz owns a guest house and we stayed, it was possibly the most gorgeous little house I have been to in the whole trip. The garden was huge with something new around each corner, it was also full of animals like hens, ducks and loads of chiwawas, well dad would say rats, I loved them. A sort of designer dog you can carry in your handbag...

After the game reserve of Madikwi I really could not imagine my trip getting any better, in fact I thought that this was the complete highlight... How wrong I was. Dad and I made our way down to Welkom in the free state, to stay at a International Police House. we were met by a guy called james who was a rather interesting character. In fact dad had warned me about the free State guys opinions of women and of course i was not disappointed when we had got lost, th...

Since Leaving Port Elizabeth and making our way up to the Game Reserve, we had managed to travel over 1500 miles. By the time we actually made it to the Madikwi Gates both Dad and I were exhausted, this didn't last long however, as soon as we had entered the reserve there were baboons and impala jumping and bounding all over the road and the surrounding bush. I was rather excited by all the activity, not realizing how much we were going to see in the next few day...