Monday morning unexpectedly turns up and the second week of our wwoofing experience kicks off with more varnishing and some roof paneling work at the op center. The tables and chairs are all made with recycled wood from old pallets that needed to be sanded and then painted with three separate coats of varnish to withstand outside weather. Its not the most fun work but its great to be outside in the sun and the beautiful scenery chatting to the other people who wo...

Kat had the more 'entertaining' experience on our weekend kayaking trip so to help her reach some closure on the terrifying events, and to try and stop the nightmares, she has written up what 'the best weekend we've had in a long time' was like. Our kayaking trip began on a beautiful sandy beach along a quiet strip of the Kouga river, deep inside a protected wilderness park called the Baviaanskloof mega nature reserve where expensive permits were required just t...

From Nelspruit we take a bus to one of the most dangerous cities in the world, Johannesburg, famous in the 1990's for crime, crime and crime. Trying to shape up their image I read the local government have enlisted the help of former New York mayor, 'zero tolerance policy', Rudolph Giuliani to help bring down the crime rate. The eyes of the world will turn to Johannesburg soon as they host the opening and closing matches of the 2010 world cup. We were only on a b...

Kruger National Park on the East of South Africa is a prime big 5 spotting safari destination teeming with deadly animals, brilliant! The park has been set up for you to drive your car past and just pop in for some wildlife viewing fun. So thats just what we did. We hired a car, booked two nights of camping accommodation in Lower Sabie camp and on Tuesday morning at 5am we were outside the entrance gates - think Jurassic park, high wire electric fences, giant ga...

From Tete it was a nasty12 hour minibus ride down to Beira, cramped tiny seats with little leg room, no storage space for bags so they go on the floor taking up leg room, seats that fold out into the gangway so no chance of standing in the aisle. At each town a bunch of carrots and onions emerges through the window and get wriggled in our faces, the number one sales tactic in Mozambique, smell before you buy. At Beira the minibus driver demands 100 mets (about 2 ...