First big day on tour, and we start at 5.30am, in order to be at Kruger Park by 6.30. Just as well! Within minutes of entering the park, we've already spotted lions chilling under a tree after a big feed. The day only gets better, and before lunch, we've seen the big five: Lion, Buffalo, Rhino (white), Leopard and Elephant, together with countless giraffe and impala. As the day progress, we see the Big 5 again. Same animals, just different individuals. I s...

The tour starts So: the tour sets off today. We're off on a 25 day tour with Acacia Adventure Holidays. 12 of us leave on a truck from Johannesburg, headed first of all, the the Kruger Park. The truck is just that - a rigid HGV with a cabin on the back, that holds up to 24 people. Underneath it, is storage for tents, food and camping equipment. It's save to say the following 25 days will be interesting!

Not a particularly busy day on this occasion. A quick trip to Constitution Hill, and Johannesburg Fort. This really is a depressing place. Lots of stories on walls about what life what like during the latter part of the the 1900s for people of all races and creeds in what was essentially a political prison.

Different sort of day today. We headed out to the Cradle of Humankind, and Sterkfontein caves. I found this to be more thought provoking than yesterday's museum trips. You can't help but get this feeling of insignificance when seeing how human beings have only been around for such a short time. Loads to see around here, including heading down into the caves. The whole area has been dubbed the 'Cradle of Humankind' as some of the oldest Hominid fossils ever ...

So Friday pulls around, and it's off to the Apartheid museum we go. All in all, it's a very well presented exhibition. It's never really going to be the pragmatic display we'd like, mainly as apartheid by it's nature never was. Nonetheless, it's still very though provoking, and does make you stop and think how such a system could continue to exist until the very late 20th century. Afterwards, we headed out to Johannesburg Planetarium at Wits University, for...