Moving Day & Swaziland

I woke up at 6:30am this morning and was surprised to see Ron already in the kitchen area drinking coffee. For the first time ever in South Africa someone was up before me.
The kettle was hot so coffee didn’t take long atall and after a quiet greeting Ron and I just sat together chilling and watching the sunrise.
I downed my coffee extra quick and then headed back to our room to finish packing all of my stuff. Today was moving day and finally after 3 weeks we were heading to Marloth Park and the Kruger National Park.
By 7:45am we were all packed and Karin was loaded and we left the Petes place and headed north for Eswatini, also known as Swaziland. This would be a new country for us and even though we weren’t stopping we were excited.
Just before we got to the border we stopped at a game butchery on the edge of the Pongola game reserve and brought game meat that Pete had been telling us about for the past 3 weeks. We brought Warthog for stewing, Impala steaks and Kudu, I brought Impala and kudu Biltong and opened it almost straight away. It was the best Biltong ever.
Back on the road we came to the South African border control and had our passports stamped to leave, then we drove through the gates and out the other side into Swaziland and entered customs, and after having our passports stamped for entry we were in and on our way.
If there weren’t gates at the borders we would never have known we were in another country except for the acre’s and acre’s of sugarcane. We passed through small towns and again if people saw us in the car they would wave. Especially the kids who have probably never seen white Europeans before. Then we passed by a huge dam and inbetween 2 private game reserves spotting impala’s and ostriches for the first time in this trip. Then after 2 hours in Swaziland we were back at border control and then back in South Africa.Read more