After a few days in wine country, we moved on to a small seaside town called Hermanus. This is where we booked on to our shark cage diving tour! The town is also well known for its whale population, which are clearly visible just off shore. Southern Right whales come to these shores every year to give birth to their young. From the various viewing points, you can see them playing around, splashing their fins and blowing water up! As the weather was poor out at s...

Upon arriving in Stellenbosch, around lunch time, eager to make our way to a winery for the afternoon, we quickly discovered we had actually left our passports back in the safe at the last hostel – 1 hours drive away! So instead of living the life of luxury, sampling various wines, we had to make a mad dash back to collect our passports and back again! Not a great start to our winelands experience!! So unfortunately our wine tasting didn’t start until the ne...

After a fairly wet and miserable start to our few days in Cape Town, we were relieved to see a ray of sunshine on the Friday that meant we could go over to Robben Island. The last 3 days’ trips had been cancelled due to high seas and bad storms, so our tour group was pretty packed with people eager to go and see the island. Unfortunately, at the minute the only way to visit the prison and the island is on one of these guided tours; normally we try to stay fairl...

After a few days in Zambia we travelled to Botswana for a few days of safari, but definitely more of a luxurious one than we had done before. After a very early morning pick up 6.45am, we travelled to the Botswana border, which incidentally is also the Namibia and Zimbabwe border. (Also, apparently the world's smallest border between 4 countries!) In the middle of the Zambezi River is where the four countries meet. There is no bridge across, only a ferry. Huge ...

Chilling out in Livingstone has been brilliant. We have really enjoyed the laid back nature, meeting the Zambian people and generally just watching the world go by!! After seeing a poster inviting visitors to the local orphanage, we decided to go over and spend some time with the kids. We met the director when we first arrived, who kindly showed us around the site and explained the history of the place. Most of the children were there due to their parents dying ...