We opted to stay our last night in Johannesburg at the Palazzo Hotel which is part of the Montecasino precinct in Fourways. The hotel and the casino/restaurant mall attempted to trick you into thinking you were in Italy – but we weren’t fooled. We even went to a Greek restaurant Continue Reading
Sabi Sands Game Reserve Kruger Park
An early morning transfer from Hazyview took us to our home for the next two nights – Notten’s Bush Camp located within the Sabi Sands Game Reserve which is part of Kruger. This was part of the trip that I had researched and booked for our trip in 2020 that Continue Reading
Back in South Africa – Panorama Route
We flew from Livingstone back to Johannesburg where we transferred to a small plane to fly us to Nelspruitt one of the main airports servicing Kruger National Park. The flight was scheduled to be 55 minutes but after twenty minutes we were told to prepare for landing and touched down Continue Reading
From multiple angles…
We decided to check the Falls from a different perspective before breakfast on Monday… After lounging by the pool awhile, we hopped on a sunset cruise and spotted some hippos and crocs, as well as a pretty spectacular sunset and an incredible red moon rising. On Tuesday we packed our Continue Reading
Victoria Falls – spectacular any way you look at it!
Wow! Photos don’t do it justice, but here are some anyway from the Zimbabwe side of the border. What an awesome way to spend my birthday! After being sung happy birthday and given cake at breakfast, our small group tour disbanded and were dropped at our next hotels as we Continue Reading
Another day, another country…
We finished our time in Botswana with an evening cruise on the Chobe River, spotting lots of hippos and some massive crocs, as well as many water birds, water buffalo and elephants. I just had to include the photo above. Credit goes to 13 yo Louis who captured it perfectly, Continue Reading
Botswana
So far it seems that Botswana has some bad roads – I’ll never complain about potholes on Victoria’s roads again! To add to the challenge there are many many donkeys on the roads as well as cows and the occasional goat. Our truck has also developed a hole in its Continue Reading
Himba Village and Etosha National Park
Thursday was also a long drive to Etosha National Park where we stayed for 2 nights. Along the way we made a stop at a traditional Himba village which was one of the highlights of the trip so far for me. Naturally the chiefs offered me a seat at the Continue Reading
Entering the Tropics!
After a brief stop at the loneliest sounding town in Africa “Solitaire” we crossed the Tropic of Capricorn on a very long day of driving on super bumpy roads getting what is referred to as an “African Massage”. Not quite the tropical landscape I expected but Swakopmund, a little north Continue Reading
Desert, desert and more desert…
For the last 4-5 days (I am losing track of days) we have been travelling north towards Etosha National Park viewing some unique and spectacular landscapes that could be on another planet. The roads are very corrugated and there seems to be very little alive between the sparse townships. From Continue Reading