Pretty short drive to Addo elephant park. The scenery changing again to become a lot greener and richer (and warmer). After lunch we went on an afternoon game drive which was pretty cool. Saw the usual suspects, zebra, kudu, many amazing warthog and then ventured to a watering hole, where we could see a herd of elephants in the distance. Within 5 minutes about 25 elephants of all ages descended upon us to get to the water. It was fantastic, to top it all I g...

Woke up today with Coldplay, Paradise, in my head, good song! Long drive today, scenery a bit boring, but a couple of interesting things, namely driving over the Orange River, which is actually brown, but halfway across the bridge we were passed by a truck with 2 huge trailers containing oranges, how ironic! Also, on the other side of the bridge is a sign which reads "It is illegal to purchase chameleons" - not sure why, it just is!!! Stopped off at the superm...

Early start (I probably need to stop saying this, just to be clear we get up most days at about 5am!). Good drive to the mountains, including a lunch stop where the guys cooked Zebra burgers for the meaties, and veggie burgers for me. (It seems the Linda McCartney equivalent here is a brand called Frys which do a huge range of soya products, result!!) In case you were wondering, Zebra tastes like beef but leaner! The approach to the mountains themselves was sp...

After our amazing sightings at Kruger, we settled down for our journey to Swaziland. I say settle down, Shandle drives like an F1 driver, so everything is full speed with no slowing down for pot holes etc etc (lucky he wasn't our driver in India!!). The journey was another opportunity to view the stunning scenery (albeit at a 1000 miles an hour, so no pics - at times feels like we are driving past Africa, rather than experiencing it) although, with the distanc...

Worst nights sleep of my whole trip, cold and lots of disturbances. Glad to be leaving and on our way to Kruger, no not glad, VERY excited!!! I am going to do one big blog for this as saw so many amazing animals. Drove into the park to be greeted by a group of monkeys, one on the top of Krugers head, investigating the potential contents of a plastic bag. It was empty but seemed to be keeping him amused, and us, watching him. The campsite was fantastic, cert...