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...

Today was a lazy inside day, not least because a cold front was passing and it rained for the most part. It allowed me to go to the gym; then we had a leisurely breakfast, I caught up with some work and we finalised the washing and packing ready for our early pick up tomorrow. Today's picture is of a young boy we saw with his bow and arrow in the Congolese village we visited. Some of the adult cross bows were even more sophisticated.

Being in a hotel with lots of facilities I felt obliged to use them so went for a work out in the gym - pedalling away and watching the planes land and takeoff made a change. A shower, followed by a very nice a la carte breakfast was next on the list. After breakfast we walked back to the airport to shop for sundries - stamps to send off our postcards, more data allowance for my vodacom sim, a rucksack for John and importantly a nice coffee in Mug and Bean. We t...

It was another very cold start but it was the last hurrah of the passing cold front that had been with us for 2 days; the temperature steadily climbed as we wended our way back to Upington for our 1720 flight to Johannesburg. To make sure we made it we had to leave Nossob at 7.30 as the gates opened and agreed only to stop for the famous male black maned Kalahari lions or meerkats. Not long after leaving we picked up lion tracks and with luck behind us we found ...