My first day of volunteering was a little uneventful until my first game drive. I did induction with Cassandra (Business Manager) and Ziggy (Community Liaison Officer), learnt a few words of Zulu and chit chatted with other volunteers. This afternoon I got to go on a game drive. I do love being in a private game reserve and realised why when we saw 3 lions. Previously the driver stops on the road and you see what you can see from the road. No vehicles are to...

For the next 6 weeks I will be living in a Big 5 Game Reserve, which also has the Magnificent 7. It is a private game reserve that is owned by a Swedish Billionaire. He apparently bought the reserve initially to hunt on, however then decided that conservation was much more needed in the area and the reserve now has a no hunting policy and anti poaching unit on site. There are 4 types of accommodation on the reserve. A five star lodge, a tented luxury camp, ...

After a night of packing it was time to say goodbye to Laura this morning. We had breakfast at 7am prior to me leaving for the airport. We reminisced over breakfast about our favourite trip moments and what we hadn't done despite having had 4 months. We made a list of things that we needed to do pronto and wondered how we were going to sleep in a room with someone else going forward. Having Laura as a tent buddy certainly helped me enjoy my time in Africa to...

Last night we splurged and stayed in a B&B for a whopping £14 each per night in Plettenberg Bay (Plett to locals). This meant that Laura and I had a twin room with a bathroom to share with Rory and Shelley. We are effectively in the downstairs area of an old couples home and it is rather lovely. This morning we woke to a scrumptious breakfast laid out on a lovely dining table with a view of the sea. The house in front of our balcony meant we did not h...

After our eventful morning we headed for Plettenberg Bay. Laura and I were in the back of the car so decided that we would navigate to provide ourselves with something to do. The decisions we made ended up making sure that we ended the day in fits of giggles. We again decided to see some of the landscape and headed off the main roads and onto the dirt roads. Laura decided best path would be Prince Alfred Pass. What the map did not show us is that it would ...