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A weekend in Moremi

BOTSWANA | Tuesday, 1 Mar 2011 | Views [610]

Tuesday 1 st March, 2011 Our weekend at Moremi Game Reserve, Okavango Delta, Botswana Well, do we write about.. ·       the thrill - on 2 occasions - of seeing two male lions within 3m of our car, lying beside ... Read more >


Photos: Getting in and then out of a bog!

BOTSWANA | Tuesday, 1 Mar 2011 | Photo Gallery

Using high lift jacks to prop the wheels up!
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Photos: Moremi Game Reserve, Okavango Delta, Botswana

BOTSWANA | Tuesday, 1 Mar 2011 | Photo Gallery

2 days in the Game Reserve
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Maun, Botswana

SOUTH AFRICA | Friday, 25 Feb 2011 | Views [1140]

Friday 25th February, 2011 Maun, Botswana A week ago we drove through the border (after giving border control the details of serial numbers for the laptop, ipod and camera so that on our return we are not hit for duty – as ... Read more >


Photos: Maun, Botswana

BOTSWANA | Thursday, 24 Feb 2011 | Photo Gallery

Sunday up the river, the San photographic exhibition
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Getting ready for the overland trip through Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Malawi then Tanzania

SOUTH AFRICA | Monday, 14 Feb 2011 | Views [1314]

Sunday 13 th February Getting ready for the overland trip Well we’ve spent the last few days and definitely need the next few days to get the Hi Lux organized as we intend to leave at the end of the week to head through ... Read more >


Photos: Land Rover stuff for David

SOUTH AFRICA | Monday, 14 Feb 2011 | Photo Gallery


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Drakensberg Mountains

SOUTH AFRICA | Sunday, 13 Feb 2011 | Views [810]

Wednesday 9 th February Day trip to the Drakensberg Mountains – a World Heritage Site We made an expedition into the genteel Drakensberg Mountains – lots of pastures, maize fields and villages on the way.    The area is green ... Read more >


Photos: Day trip to the Drakensberg Mountains, then a local braii (bbq) to follow

SOUTH AFRICA | Sunday, 13 Feb 2011 | Photo Gallery

What a fabulous day, followed by some local hospitality
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Photos: The Midlands area between Durban and Jo'Burg

SOUTH AFRICA | Sunday, 13 Feb 2011 | Photo Gallery

A stay on a farm and day trips to local artists
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The Midlands

SOUTH AFRICA | Saturday, 12 Feb 2011 | Views [807]

Tuesday 8th February, 2011 Hawkston Farm, Midlands (between Durban and Jo’burg) We survived 3 dives at Sodwana - enjoying the warmer water, the hard coral and the leisurely atmosphere at the Sodwana Bay Lodge…in fact we stayed ... Read more >


Barry & Celia Coleman - dive masters extraordinaire!

SOUTH AFRICA | Friday, 11 Feb 2011 | Views [999]

At Umkomaas we were in the care of dive masters Barry and Celia Coleman of Meridian dive, who did an excellent job of organizing our accommodation, our dives and our social life! They are great people, in fact they could almost be mistaken for ... Read more >


Umkomaas, south of Durban

SOUTH AFRICA | Monday, 31 Jan 2011 | Views [456]

Monday 31 st January 2010 Umkomaas, south of Durban After travelling from Pretoria last Friday through canefields, maize and ramshackle villages with kids on their way home from school walking by the roadside for endless ... Read more >


Photos: African Market Johannesburg

SOUTH AFRICA | Monday, 24 Jan 2011 | Photo Gallery


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Sunday at the African Village Market, Johannesburg

SOUTH AFRICA | Monday, 24 Jan 2011 | Views [1349]

While the newly cleaned out pool fills chez Mark & Margie’s, we took off to visit the colourful African Handcraft Markets – so much innovation and creativity.   Things we saw included fabulous dancers, a fire eating limbo dancer, solar powered toys, ... Read more >


Photos: Pretoria

SOUTH AFRICA | Friday, 21 Jan 2011 | Photo Gallery


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Into Africa

SOUTH AFRICA | Thursday, 20 Jan 2011 | Views [452]

Well here we finally are!  We're holed up, starting that downward spiral into retirement, about 20km from Pretoria - at our friends' Mark & Margie's hillside retreat.  A bit about their home...the house is made up of about 8 split-levels and is ... Read more >


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