Blog Day 46 Tues 21st June 2011 We venture out for our last game drive in our little car early this morning, we drive around for a couple of hours, although we fail to complete the big 5 as we don't get to see the Leopard or Buffalo but after yesterday's lion sighting we can't really complain though we do get extremely close to some baby zebra & manage to get some fantastic pictures & we see the Giraffe & the usual Wildebeest, Impala, and Springbok. W...

Blog Day 45 Mon 20th June 2011 As we have a car, all be it a matchbox, we head out again to make the most of the game driving, the safaris are just far too expensive & you can see just as much in a car. We are hoping to see at least the rest of the big five today as we’ve only crossed off Elephant & Rhino so far. We come across the Baboons on the way in again this time they are sitting there scratching their nuts completely oblivious to us watching the...

Blog Day 43 Sat 18th June 2011 Woo hoo Safari day, we are on our way to Pilansberg Game Reserve. We’ve been kindly leant a Sat Nav which helps big time. On the way there we stop at Hartepedlesport Market. Dan is quite confused about which market to go to, as when he was here last time the market was made up of tin shacks. Now it looks as though some money has been invested into it as all the stalls are concrete rooms. Having said that there is a huge market th...

Blog Day 37 Sun 12th June 2011 For breakfast this morning we have ………………………………….the same as yesterday! We manage to use up our ingredients which give us one less bag to carry. The Baz Bus arrives around 12ish so we jump back on that & are pretty much on it for the rest of the day & evening. We get to a place called Randburg which is an area of Johannesburg. We are the last people to get dropped off, so we don't arrive there until...

Blog Day 35 Fri 10th June 2011 Today we are leaving early for Northern Drakensberg, it’s about a 5 hour drive & we are staying in the middle of nowhere, a place called The Amphitheatre, it’s surrounded by the Drakensberg mountains which at this moment in time have snow on them, they look so pretty. We headed to reception to book up our room and before we knew it we were taken on a mini tour of the hostel. The tour included a big speech on the available t...