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
South Africa
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
Franschhoek
A quick post – on Saturday and Sunday we headed East from Cape Town in a nice Toyota hybrid hire car, stopping at Babylonstoren and Boschendal Estate before driving into Stellenbosch then onto Franschhoek -(or French Corner in Dutch) in the beautiful Franschhoek valley, famous for its wineries. We purchased Continue Reading
Table Mountain to Cape of Good Hope
Friday (yes I am playing catch-up here..) Day trip today. Instead of picking up the hire car today as planned we booked ourselves a tour. Table Mountain via Cable Car was the first stop – incredible views and very cold at the top. Fortunate with a clear day although a Continue Reading
The Blue Train (Part 1)
We made it to South Africa! We are on the move again now and possibly 200km down the track. Will provide an update on our train trip soon! Thanks for reading – leave a comment or a hello!
That was unexpected…
So our day didn’t pan out the way we had hoped. The plane crashed into the aerobridge or vice versa. Regardless the plane wasn’t going anywhere… So after Qantas worked out wtf to do, we were booked into the Pullman Airport Hotel and given directions to a shuttle bus to Continue Reading