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    • TravelerSüdafrika + Mauritius
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      Day 7–11

      Locationwechsel - Auf zu den Tieren

      February 6 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

      Heute ging es früh los Richtung Flughafen.
      Nach gut 2 Stunden Flug nach Johannesburg und weiteren 5 Stunden Busfahrt haben wir nun unsere Lodge kurz vor Sonnenuntergang erreicht - Mit direktem Blick in den Kruger Nationalpark.
      Auf der Busfahrt haben auch schon die ersten Pumbas und Zebras unseren Weg gekreuzt.🦓🐗
      Morgen startet dann um 4.30 Uhr unsere erste Safari. Also gleich schnell ab ins Bett...      Read more

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    • Krüger Park SA Roadtrip
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      Day 3

      Marloth Park

      October 28, 2019 in South Africa ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

      ...sind im Foxy Crocodile Bush Retreat bei Gail und Mark angekommen. Die Lodge ist 30 Meter vom Zaun (gegen das Eindringen von Mensch und Tier) gelegen und unsere Chalet mit Blick auf den Crocodile River.
      Nach dem Gewitter sind die Temperaturen auf 28 Grad gefallen und Mark holt uns nach dem Auspacken, zu einer kleinen Tour am Zaun entlang ab. Herrliche Aussicht und erste Tiere und das Valley.      Read more

    • Krüger Park SA Roadtrip
      Day 5

      10 Std. DRIVE im Krüger.

      October 30, 2019 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

      ... endlich mal wieder einen 10 Std. Tag hinter dem Lenkrad - hatten wir das letzte Mal bei BSC. Das Tacho zeigt allerdings nur eine Strecke von 150km an - was für ein Schnitt.
      Mittlerweile betätige ich auch kaum noch den Scheibenwischer , wenn ich blinken will !!!
      Hier die best pictures of today:      Read more

    • Hanni2507Roadtrip durch Südafrika 🇿🇦
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      Day 7

      Zebra zum Frühstück 🦓 / Stop-over in 🇸🇿

      November 24, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C

      Heute gab es Zebra 🦓 zum Frühstück 😄Stimmt nicht ganz, aber zumindest waren die gestreiften Pferdchen zum Greifen nah dabei. Ein echtes Highlight 😍

      Danach ging die Reise weiter ins Swasiland 🇸🇿 oder Eswatini, wie es heute heißt. Eswatini war bis zum Jahr 2018 als Swasiland bekannt, wurde aber auf Geheiß von König Mswati III. (der übrigens 14 Ehefrauen hat) in Eswatini umbenannt. Wir sind hier also in einem Königreich 👑 zu Gast, das absolut monarchisch geführt wird. Nach Gambia ist Eswatini der zweitkleinste Flächenstaat in Afrika.

      Unsere Logde ist ein echtes Schmuckstück mit Pool und Tropenwald. So kann man den routenbedingten Zwischenstopp gut aushalten 🥰

      Nach einem gemütlichen Nachmittag am Pool, haben wir heute wieder sehr lecker zu Abend gegessen. Mark hatte ein T-Bone Steak 🥩 („das Beste, das er je gegessen hat“) und ich habe ein traditionelles Swasigericht gegessen „Iyasha Inyama“ was so viel heißt wie das „Fleisch auf dem Feuer“. Hier werden marinierte Rinderfiletstreifen flambiert und es gibt verschiedene Dips und eine Art Kroketten dazu. Sehr köstlich 🤤      Read more

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    • Südafrika Part 2 - Reise
      Day 16

      Das große Finale im Kruger beginnt!

      August 23, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 36 °C

      Eine Übernachtung hier im Dunkeld Estate in Dullstroom war zu kurz.
      Wir hätten gerne das Anwesen und das Örtchen noch besser kennengelernt.

      Unsere Reise muss aber weitergehen. Es geht endlich zum Kruger Nationalpark. 😍😍 Besser gesagt: In dem Marloth Park, denn dort ist unsere Unterkunft, die Kruger Eden Lodge.

      Schon während der Fahrt hat sich die Landschaft wieder etwas verändert. Je weiter weg wir von den Kohleabbaugebieten kommen, desto schöner wird die Landschaft wieder und es sieht immer mehr wie im König der Löwen aus. 😜☺️

      Unsere Lodge liegt im Marloth Park. Das ist eine private Region direkt angrenzenden an den Kruger, in der viele Ferienhäuser und Lodges liegen. Der Marloth Park und der Kruger sind lediglich durch den Crocodile River und einen kleinen Zaun getrennt.
      Die Kruger Eden Lodge, in der wir schlafen ist der Hammer! Wir haben uns das Highlight wirklich bis zum Schluss aufgehoben. Ab heute gilt das Motto: Safari pur! 😍

      Schon während unserer Ankunft hier haben uns gleich Warzenscheine im Garten begrüßt. Alle anderen Tiere haben auch Zugang zur Lodge. Hier gibt es keinen Zaun. Zurzeit treiben sich wohl auch Löwen und ein Leopard im Marloth Park herum. 🙃
      Hier ist es auch richtig schön warm. Das Frieren hat für mich ein für alle mal ein Ende. 😄

      Als wir nur mal kurz zum "Supermarkt" und zur Tankstelle hier im Park gefahren sind, haben wir schon viele Tiere gesehen - endlich sogar Giraffen, einfach so auf der Straße!!! 😍

      Für den Nachmittag/Abend haben wir eine sog. "Local Sundowner Twilight Safari" gebucht. Der Ranger ist mit uns durch den Marloth Park gefahren und hauptsächlich haben wir die ganzen Unterkünfte hier gesehen, aber auch Impalas, Kudus, Mangoose, Warzenschweine und wieder die Giraffen. 😁
      Mit Sicht auf den Crocodile River haben wir eine kleinen Snack und Getränke genießen können. Ganz, ganz in der Ferne im Kruger Park auf der anderen Flussseite haben wir auch Löwen sehen können.
      Bei der Heimfahrt zur Lodge haben sich die Giraffen auch wieder schön präsentiert und sind wie Models auf der Straße vor uns spaziert. 🤗

      Für den Abend hatten wir ein Braii bestellt. Wir saßen im Boma und der Chef hat uns ein tolles Abendessen gegrillt.

      Unsere Ankunft heute war nur ein kleiner Appetizer für die kommenden Tage! Wir freuen uns beide so sehr und sind einfach nur gespannt. 🥰      Read more

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    • Misadventures Of WandaThe Elephant Coast
      Day 27

      Another Day Around Marloth Park

      April 19, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

      Nobody slept well last night.
      Because of the load shedding where South Africa distributes it’s power to where it is most needed all of the power went off at 12:30am and didn’t come back on until gone 3am. This meant no air conditioning in our little oven of a house and also it is extremely stuffy and with no fans there’s not even any air in the room.
      Just gone 1am Ellie worked out how to open the windows and pulled the curtains back and atlast there was air but there were lots of strange noises outside and we’ve run out of mosquitoe spray so we got eaten alive. It was a really terrible night and when I got up at 6:30am Pete said his night was pretty much the same, although I had heard him upstairs wandering around most of the night. This is also an extremely noisy house, with creaky floors and every door and cupboard in the place squeaks.
      We had nothing much planned today except for looking further around Marloth Park and seeing what the community has to offer and we sat at the breakfast table feeding the warthogs while we all had teas and coffees. It was pretty cool.
      Pete had run out of rizlas and weed and as I went to get dressed he went to the shop to get rolling papers and get cash from the atm.
      When he returned he said he couldn’t get the cash out until 10am because the needed to count the money in the cash machine, but he did have rolling papers.
      Personally I don’t think there was any money in his account whatsoever and Ellie gave him R100 which is £5 in England so he could by some weed from a Mozambiquen guy at the side of the road. To be fair he did get the equivalent amount of weed that would have cost £150 back in England for £5, but I really don’t miss those days of panic when I’d run out of weed, papers or tobacco.
      After the weed stop around 10am we visited the tourist information office and spent ages talking to the couple in there about hikes, bike hire and what the volunteers around the community offer and it turns out you can become a volunteer ranger and they will teach you all about the indigenous plants of the area and hold talks on animals a couple of times a month.
      Then we went to the shops and we found 2 large convenience stores that stock pretty much everything, a bottle store because alcohol has to be licensed differently. A laundrette, a butcher’s, 2 security companies and hardware stores. This place has everything all within a couple of kilometres of each other.
      From the shops we took another small game drive around Marloth park looking for animals and looking at the different style houses. Some of the ones along the rivers edge are absolute mansions. Then it was time to head back home for some lunch.      Read more

    • Misadventures Of WandaSouth Africa Solo
      Day 18

      Our First Day Back

      March 19 in South Africa ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C

      We woke up at 6am. Neither of us had slept very well considering we were in a comfy bed in beautiful surroundings.
      I’d found the duvet to short to come up to my ears which I like covered and also not wide enough that if there were 2 of us in the bed it wouldn’t fall over us and touch the mattress. I also didn’t realise there was a sheet under the duvet until 4am.
      We got up and filled a food bucket full of animal feed and opened the back door. There was just one Kudu waiting for us but within minutes of putting the food down the herd turned up. We had 8 Kudu, 3-4 impala, 10 warthog and with the warthog came the Crested Guinea Fowl. In the back stood the bushbuck and little Diekers. They like the sweet potatoes really but the feed shop is currently out of them.
      Even though we hadn’t had much sleep Ellie fancied a walk and as we were peaking really early today at 8:10am we went for a 6km hike following the fence line of the Kruger and the crocodile river. We found a flat tailed skink down there and lots of Waterbok up against the fence.
      When we got back to the house at 9:30am it was really heating up outside and I decided to use the cuddle puddle in the garden for the first time and it was freezing cold. It was the coldest water I’d felt since we got here and it was so refreshing.
      We didn’t do much with the rest of the morning except watch the animals coming and going in the garden. We both found it very zen like. Then at 2pm I decided we couldn’t sit here all day so we took a drive into Komatipoort to do a little shopping. Getting to the town is easy but once you’re there it’s a hub of activity and even though it is a small place it feels like a city centre, which is daunting as tomorrow we have actually decided to drive to the closest city of Neilspruit, now renamed Mbombela for some reason.
      Back at the house it was now 4:30pm. We had a visit in the garden of a Kudu and her tiny calf that didn’t have a tail yet just some cotton wool placed there instead. Once the mother kudu had eaten some hay and some pellets she just kept washing the baby, that was defiantly worth seeing.
      For dinner I did the Braai as Ellie cocked it up last night and we had burgers and Braai rolls with beetroot, potato salad and coleslaw. It felt like a real Braai we had cooked ourselves, then I set my camera up and Ellie filled the bushbaby food bowl with banana and I waited for the bushbaby to come. Now I knew what to expect I got some great photos and even some video even though I had a Kudu watching me all night with its head through the bars looking for food. At 9pm I called it a night because no matter where I stood the kudu stood in front of me so I gave up trying to get any more pictures of the bushbaby and went to bed.      Read more

    • Misadventures Of WandaSouth Africa Solo
      Day 6

      Our First Game Drive

      March 7 in South Africa ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C

      We had a really rough nights sleep. South Africa does load shedding and cuts power to distribute to elsewhere and last night our power went off at 9pm. It has gone off almost every night and we hadn’t noticed because the house we are staying in has an inverter. This is a system that when the power is on it charges a battery so when the power goes off you still have battery power.
      This has worked for us and run our air conditioning all night since we got here but because the pool guy came and turned the pool pump on for hours in the morning and then left the pump running all afternoon this used copious amount of energy. Also the cleaner had the hoover and a washing machine running so during the day the battery didn’t charge.
      So at 9pm when the power went out our battery only lasted 10 minutes and then we were without air conditioning and I hadn’t had it running before bedtime.
      Our room gradually got hotter and hotter. It was still 28°c outside which felt cooler than inside when we both got up at 1am unable to stay asleep.
      I jumped straight in the pool and went back to bed wet with a fan running of a power bank and Ellie spent ages on the sofa.
      We hardly got a wink of sleep and at 5am we were both up getting ready for our first game drive. We couldn’t wait to get in the car because we could put air con on.
      Just after 6am we arrived at Lionspruit game reserve. This is a private game reserve owned by Marloth park and is only open to owners or guests at Marloth Park. It has loads of animals including 4 of the big five. The only thing it is missing is elephants.
      We paid our 130 rand for entry which is about £5 and then set off and almost straight away a Giraffe crossed the road right infront of us.
      Our first stop was 15mins in, at the impala hide where there was a lovely wooden hide overlooking a large watering hole. Here there were hundreds of impala and even a giraffe.
      After a 20 minute stop we moved on and drove around 5km to another hide overlooking another watering hole. This water source had 7 giraffe, more impala and a few bushbuck. We even got to see one of the giraffes drinking.
      We spent another 20 at this hide before moving to the next where it was pretty empty.
      Along the game drive we saw thousands of impala and hundreds of Kudu. We even saw baby Kudu which is the cutest thing ever, we also saw Wilderbeast, Waterbok, Steenbok and lots of mousebirds but no predators and no rhino.
      We left the park at 11am as the sun was now in full swing and it was atleast 35°c outside and we headed back to the house for a late breakfast and a rest.
      Early in the afternoon we headed out for petrol and a few bits to keep us going for the next few days and then we started packing our stuff ready to leave. Once all that was done I jumped back in the pool to cool off while Ellie managed to feed a little bushbuck by hand. They are very mild mannered antelope.
      At 5pm we headed back out to one of the lookout spots called two trees in Marloth Park overlooking the Kruger.
      Almost as soon as we got out of the car we saw a cluster of people with binoculars pointing across the otherside of the river. We knew it would be a predator, the question is what one.
      We headed down to the group and they pointed us towards a rock on the otherside of the river and above that rock was our first leopard. He was probably about 150 meters away and we could barely see him with the naked eye but luckily I had my big lens on the camera and I managed a few shots. Not the best but a sighting is a sighting.
      We carried on walking trying to spot the female leopard to no avail but we did spot hundreds of waterbok down at the river and up at our side of the fence. There was also buffalo on the otherside and one got dangerously close to the leopard and we thought we were going to see the leopard attempt to take it down but in the end he just strolled off the other way. During the walk we met a young South African guy who now lives in Braintree of all places. We couldn’t believe it.
      We left 2 trees just after sunset and drove back home in the dark and when we pulled up to the house about a hundred banded mongoose ran across the front of the drive. One had to go back for one of its babies and it was so small she was carrying it. Quite often it’s the smaller animals here that really make you love the place.
      Back at home it was now 7pm and 30°c inside and outside.
      Ellie started dinner while I went and put the air con on and then we sat in the garden with a little bushbuck eating our dinner and slowly melting.
      Hopefully we’ll have a better nights sleep tonight as this is our last night here and tomorrow will be our first real dangerous game drive on our own. We’ll be up at 5am and heading into the Kruger.      Read more

    • Misadventures Of WandaSouth Africa Solo
      Day 5

      A Walk along the Crocodile

      March 6 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

      Today we were up bright and early at 5am. The reason for this was so we could drive to two trees lookout point almost 4 miles away and then walk along the Kruger National Park border fence.
      After a coffee we set off at 5:45am, it was light outside but sunrise wasn’t for another few minutes. Getting anywhere quick in Marloth Park just isn’t doable. The speed limit on the unmade roads is 10mph but you can only do that if the road has been graded, and the speed limit on the one tar road is 30mph. It would take us 20 minutes to finally reach the look out point at almost 6:10am.
      Once at the lookout we parked our car and headed along the fence line path that borders the Kruger National park and is separated by the crocodile river.
      Straight away we saw hundreds of impala the other side of the river with a herd of Zebra. On our side of the river we had waterbuck right in front of us. A little bit further along we had hippo with babies right infront of us, then the banded mongoose jumped out of the grass right next to us squeezing and chattering as they ran down towards the river. It wasn’t so much of a walk but more of a stop and stare every few feet because there was so much to see. On the way back to the camper we even saw giraffe drinking from the river, it was a pretty good walk.
      At 8:30am we headed back home for some breakfast only to be greeted by a pool cleaner and a lady cleaning the house. We didn’t know anything about these coming so we were a bit shocked and decided to sit in the Brai Area and wait for them to leave.
      The pool guy was done within an hour although I asked him how long does it take to clean our little cuddle puddle and he said 20 minutes, he was much longer than that.
      The cleaner however didn’t leave until 11:30am. If we’d known that we’d have gone out for breakfast.
      While we waited for the cleaner to leave I checked the camera traps and finally I’ve caught both the big and small bushbabies on camera. Not only that I also caught the bats landing on the post eating the banana so I’m quite pleased.
      After some toast and a quick dip in our nice clean pool all the travelling had finally caught up with us and we both lay on the sofa in the lounge and fell asleep for an hour then we headed out again in the camper to drive along the fence line of lionspruit game park here in Marloth to see what we could see and to check out what was over that side of Marloth.
      We didn’t see anything along the fence line probably because it was still 36°c outside but we did come across a piece of parkland that according to the locals is an animal highway and you could see anything there.
      From our drive we headed to the Bos restaurant. It was now 5pm and this is the party place with a live stage area and even a swimming pool and play area for the kids, then at just gone 6pm we headed home to feed the animals and feed the bushbabies and set the camera up.
      Back at our house we already had 2 warthog waiting for us, they were here every night so we’ve called them Wilber and Wilma.
      During the day we have a huge male with floppy ears come to us so he’s called floppy ears and another one with a wonky mouth that makes him look like he has a Cleff pallet so I called him Cleff Richards. We also had a little bushbuck hanging around here all day.
      As soon as I went through the door I grabbed a big load of food to throw down for Wilbur and Wilma. I went back for another load and when I went back out to throw it I was greeted by a huge Wilderbeast. He was also happy with the food but did prefer the sweet potatoes.
      Once the food had gone Frank the Wilderbeast chased off our 2 warthog and just as we thought we were alone we were joined by the little bushbuck. He was on his own and we haven’t named him yet but I had to feed him as he was making me feel guilty. Once the food had gone he stood infront of us looking out down the garden as if he was guarding us for the rest of the night.      Read more

    • TravelerEscaping winter @ SA
      Day 21

      Kruger-Cape Town, back to the city

      February 9 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 34 °C

      After a big-big hug to Devon and some guests heading out to their game drive of the day, I was just waiting for my transfer to arrive when Kruger couldn’t let me go without a final cool sighting: a group of 10 mongouses, I just can’t have enough of this park… 🥹✨🙏🫶🌈☀️ Annoyingly my flight got delayed so even though I left the hostel at 5 am I only arrived at 11 pm to my hostel in Cape Town, but it was all totally worth it, would never skip this experience for anything!!! I can only hope to see these beautiful people and animals soon again 💖Read more

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