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
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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
Giants Playground and Quiver Tree Forest
This is an amazing landscape. We are starting to see more wildlife in the desert and have spotted quite a few ostrich and different types of antelope including eland and springbok. There are a few private game reserves along the long straight road where they have some of the bigger Continue Reading
Southern Namibia
Greetings couch travellers and blog followers! We have been travelling north since we last chatted, stopping at the town of Springbok where I assume their rugby team all come from, then through the SA-Namibia border at Noordoewer, which took about an hour and a half which i understand is pretty Continue Reading
On the road to Namibia
Got back to Cape Town after our Franschhoek weekend and went to the V&A Waterfront for a couple of pints of Guinness at the traditional African-Irish bar as you do, before heading to the hotel and get organised for our 20 day overland road trip up through Namibia, into Botswana Continue Reading
The Blue Train (Part 2) to Cape Town
We finally made it to Cape Town. Due to the removal of copper rail lines the Blue Train was delayed multiple times and we ended up arriving in Cape Town a full 24 hours behind schedule… I have been reminded that being a control freak with a meticulously planned itinerary Continue Reading