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Hi everybody,
A very happy BIG birthday Michael...!!!
I met up with ‘The Wild Dogs’ motor bikers who kindly invited me to a Brai (BBQ)and camp weekend in a great spot up in the hills where pigs and goats were sacrificed for a superb bikers feast, Thanks guys and girls....
A few days later I arrived at Islandwana where 1100 British lost their lives in a battle with 20 thousand Zulus and Rorkes Drift , the mission that was saved by 139 british soldiers against 4 thousand Zulus as depicted in the Michael Caine film ‘Zulu’. An incredibly emotive place.
Next stop was Sodwana Bay where I stayed at The Coral Reef dive complex and did a great dive with turtles ...and pirates, long story. Then got robbed of all my food supplies by a troop of very cheeky monkeys who sat up in the trees and watched me watching them whilst chomping on my porridge, chocolates and biltong.
I then travelled up to Swaziland and Mozambique for a few days on the beach, very nice but I was very happy to get back in to South Africa to Spend a few days on safari in Kruger. After close encounters with Crocodiles, Impala, elephants, Leopards, giraffe, buffalo, Rhino, Zebra, Lions and hippos I sadly said goodbye to South Africa and rode around the Kalahari desert to Botswana.
Hello Botswana...This feels like the Africa I’d heard about. I am now camped by the side of the Okavango Delta watching kingfishers and crocs fight over fish....
I’m still loving this....
Bye for now x.
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Monique Dan, what a great trip. Thanks so much for writing this I saw it via LinkedIn upadets. I am inspired by your story, and I hope you write more about the thoughts and reflections that you experienced. So far away from the world that we are used to, and so in touch with nature. I'd like to make this journey sometime as well. One safari I've heard of some years ago, which I've since been inspired by involved bicycling across the savannah. You camped in seals style wilderness camps, and had to stay up at night on a rotating watch. Although, your allusion to never touching the ground makes me wonder about the safety of this.