'twas Christmas Day and a long drive took us from the battlefields of Natal to the Mozambique border and Safari!!! The majesty of Kruger Park has left us lost for words. (Nathaniel was thankful for the 10 mins of silence) Seriously though, nothing could have prepared us for the experience of viewing African animals in their natural habitat. We saw 9 lions, around 50 elephants (no joke), and countless buffalo, hippo, rhino, wildebeest, impala, giraffe, crocodiles....

We made our way to Zulu country and the first stop was the Drakensburg World Heritage Site. We'd never heard of it due to our own ignorance but were glad we stumbled across it as it is the home of the world's largest ampitheatre mountain face (apparently 10 times the area of El Capitan in Yosemite) and Tiguela Falls, the highest waterfall in Africa, second highest in the world. We saw our first wild baboons in the Royal Natal National Park with a second sighting ...

Seth Efrika my friend. "Here we are in the African Urban Savannah, observing the native South African. The South African homo sapien bears quite an abrupt accent, hence their scientific name - homo talkus horriblus." So we arrived in Johannesburg and reached our first dilemma - how does one get an African baby through Australian Customs? (We were quite taken by how adorable they are) We were also surprised at a few things such as: how few whiteys there are out an...

What will Egypt´s next tourism slogan be we wonder... Egypt. Arabia´s Ashtray. Egypt. Come for the food, stay for the cholera. Egypt. Give you 3 Camels in exchange for your blonde wife. No? Ok, 5. You must forgive our cycnicism regarding our travels in Egypt but whilst it was yet another amzing experience to chalk up, it was definitely no Dubai. Our first experience was the ride from the airport to our hostel. We didn´t get to take in much of the city as w...