As I woke early and no one else was about I had a quick shower before breakfast. With everyone ready we left at 8 ish and headed back to Tzaneen for another snack buying opportunity and for the coffee addicts, a latte at the coffee shop - we clearly made an impact as the waitress remembered us! A short while later we were at Karongwe - we had a welcome drink, paid for our optional game drives - which everyone was doing - and had a quick orientation of the main ...

I slept very well and was very snug in my sleeping bag with thermal and silk liners. John slept well but was identified as the snorer who had kept others awake for a while!! That said he was not the only one as when I went to the loo different noises were ringing out from several different places. The air was very nippy and I could see frost on the ground - this made making my peanut butter, banana and jam sandwiches more of a trial than normal. As it was cool w...

Today after a cold start, which required long johns under trousers, it quickly warmed up, so before we left I quickly removed them. Sightseeing en route to our mountain hut -where we were spending the night prior to tomorrow's. walk - was the order of the day. First stop 'gods window',on the edge of the escarpment and a walk through the indigenous rainforest; second stop Bourke's Luck potholes, looking at the wildlife displays in the eco centre then looking at ...

After making our packed lunches and then having breakfast we got onto the bus and made our way to the trail start point, in the hills behind Pilgrims Rest. The weather was cloudy and misty to start with but cleared by mid-morning and the rest of the day was sunny,warm and very pleasant - that is until the sun went down and the chill returned. As we walked alongside plantations of pine trees we passed Morgensons hut, apparently not as good as the hut we are stay...

We were collected from the Hilton, just after 0630am and taken, along with four other early arrivers, to Johannesburg International airport to meet the remainder of the group who were arriving on the South African Airways flight from Heathrow. The cold front was still transiting the country and albeit sunny it was cold and remained so for the rest of the day. Everybody on board the bus our walking safari began. We stopped at, Belfast, South Africa's highest to...