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    • TravelerSouth Africa

      La Krüger Lifestyle Lodge

      October 9, 2019 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C

      Nach einer Kräftezerrenden Anreise (24h insgesamt, mit 2 Flügen und ner Autotour durch Südafrika) sind wir jetzt angekommen und genießen erst einmal die Aussicht! Die erste Safari startet um 19 Uhr! Bilder kommen morgen 😝😋

      PS es sind 34 Grad im Schatten😍      Read more

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    • TravelerSouth Africa
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      Tag 2 Marloth Park

      October 10, 2019 in South Africa ⋅ 🌧 17 °C

      Nach dem üblen Gewitter heute Nacht erwartete uns ein super leckeres Frühstück. Wir entschieden uns spontan mit unserem Auto ein bisschen auf Selbsterkundung zu gehen. Hier haben wir folgendes zu sehen bekommen....Read more

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    • Misadventures Of WandaThe Elephant Coast
      Day 25

      Getting The Lay Of The Land

      April 17, 2023 in South Africa

      This morning we were in no rush after our long day yesterday, and as today is the last day of the Easter holidays here in Africa we decided not to go to the Kruger straight away but just take a drive around the area. After all we’re still in the Kruger National Park, even here, and even just driving around the dirt roads we could see anything from warthog to the 7 lion that are here.
      Whilst having a small breakfast and coffees we fed a bushbuck and Impala that came to visit. Then at 9am we set off on our drive looking for whatever we could find and getting the lay of the land.
      Marloth Park is basically one long road called Olephant Street that has a gate either end. Off of Olephant street run several other dirt roads crisscrossing each other to make 300,000 hectares of hidden homes. On one more expensive side of Olephant street the roads lead to crocodile river which is the divide between the Kruger and Marloth Park, on the side of Olephant street the homes are deeper in the bush and completely hidden in most cases and you really feel like you are living in the wild in any of the houses.
      The homes Overlooking crocodile river are on seekoi road and crocodile road and these are the most desirable and most expensive places here and it looks like millionaires row with some huge houses, some even have 3-4 story lookout towers built onto there homes giving them a direct view of the Kruger.
      Further back from there the houses start to drop in desirability but they are equally as beautiful and each one is completely unique.
      We managed to speak to some locals who told us the best places to spot animals including leopards and we even got an idea of where the lions like to hang out and on route we saw warthog, Kudu, impala’s and the biggest herd of giraffe any of us had ever seen. We even managed to see 2 male giraffe fighting.
      Just after midday we went back to the house to grab some lunch and both Pete and Ellie managed to feed a female Kudu by hand. Pete even managed to kiss it on the nose before it bolted off.
      After lunch we headed back out and located the hides overlooking the river with a direct view of the Kruger then we continued with our free game drive and looking at the very unique houses in this very unique area.
      Just before sunset we headed home and I filled the watering hole and straight away the warthogs came back and had a splash about. Then we fed them, the Kudu, a bushbuck and an impala and just before the sun disappeared a bushbaby came out and we left him peaches filled with sugar. It was a really special day and to finish it Pete cooked us pork belly with Bree Rolls and corn on the cob.
      By 9pm we were all completely done for the day and called it a night ready for an early start tomorrow.      Read more

    • Misadventures Of WandaThe Elephant Coast
      Day 27

      Baboons Are Not Welcome.

      April 19, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C

      As we drove up the driveway to our little house a huge baboon ran across the road infront of us, he had packets in his hand and I commented that he’d just been robbing someone. As we approached the house we saw that a whole window frame had been ripped out and there was the wood and glass all over the floor.
      It was us he had robbed.
      We looked through the window to see utter devastation as all of our food and drink that was either on the side or in the fridge was now all over the floor.
      Once we opened the door the mess looked even worse, he had eaten everything from the eggs, the cereal the corn on the cobs we had, all of our snack food like crisps and biscuits were gone and he had drunk 2 cartons of fruit juice 1 carton of milk and thrown another carton of milk, eggs, pasta and maize all over the floor and smashed countless cups, glasses and plates and to top it off he had then crapped everywhere and rubbed some of it on the walls and carpets. He was a dirty Baboon!!
      First off we called security and a guard drove down looked at the devastation and we told him the alarm had been on. He said because of the load shedding the alarm wouldn’t work and that’s why the alarm hadn’t gone off. Load shedding is a nightmare, but luckily we had closed all of the bedroom doors and our stuff was safe but he had tried our bedroom windows and bent the frames.
      The security guard called the cleaner who in turn called a maintenance guy and he came straight out.
      Pete, Ellie and I started cleaning up and filled 2 black bags full of rubbish and then Petes ADHD kicked in and I washed the floor with a cloth on my hands and knees while he disappeared talking about other peoples holidays in Sodwana bay, but I have come to expect nothing less.
      Chris the maintenance guy put a new window in within an hour and then to mine and Ellies horror he screwed our windows shut with a drill. Now when there’s load shedding tonight we really will have no air, I’m dreading bedtime because I hated this house anyway.
      Once the window was fixed we headed back to the shops to restock on some groceries, luckily he hadn’t got into the freezer and our meat was safe. Then we headed back to the house dropped the food off and headed back out for sunset.
      We drove down to Seekoi street and sat looking at the parklands at all of the wildlife wandering across the plain, kudo, impalas, wilderbeast and we even saw parrots.
      Then we wandered down to the two trees viewing area and just as we got there Pete spotted a leopard on the other side of the river on the edge of the Kruger. He was quite far away but we could still see him and it was definitely a good sighting although it’s not the leopard in a tree I’ve been after.
      As it got dark we headed back for home. It was now 6:30pm. Thanks to the baboon, Pete and I hadn’t eaten a thing all day and at 7pm Ellie had to remind Pete to feed us. Otherwise I think he would have just smoked all night.
      Fortunately he pulled it right out the bag with a warthog stew with Pupe. Then with no zebra coming to visit us tonight we headed for bed.      Read more

    • Misadventures Of WandaThe Elephant Coast
      Day 29

      Marloth Park to Sodwana Bay

      April 21, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

      Overnight we had countless load shedding. It was definitely off more than it was on and when I woke up at 6am it was still off. Luckily the time that it had been off had just about filled the pipes with water and I managed to boil just enough for teas and coffee’s, then I sat in the garden with Pete and we were joined by the bushbuck, and deicker before a huge male kudu came in and scared them both off. Then the 4 warthogs came back and scared the kudu off and finished off the last of the food.
      We were packed and ready to go at 9am and after a last sweep of the place for any belongings we left our hot noisy hell hole with no power clean and tidy, Barr the mess the baboon had made. Then it was a trip to the field security office to drop the keys back and then we took a final drive around the gravel and dirt roads of Marloth park with Pete fantasising about how he could fill a huge house as a game and safari lodge. He’s got all the ideas but absolutely no money.
      We finally left Marloth Park around 10:30am and headed straight to Komattiport for fuel which was £100 for which we paid and food at the spar while Pete said he had phone calls to make but we knew by then he was phoning his mum because he’d run out of money.
      When we got back to the car with food for the journey he admitted that his mum couldn’t do a bank transfer because there was no internet.
      We got the Swaziland border just before lunchtime and we had to pay for the car which was only £5 and even though Pete took his card in, he may aswell have taken a brick.Then 90 minutes driving into Swaziland Pete got pulled over for speeding. The fine was R60 which is around £2:50 and they insisted he pay the fine but obviously he didn’t have any money and we only had R20 which they wouldn’t accept. Then they started telling me they were going to take my driver and I just laughed and said that’s ok I’ll follow you and finally Pete managed to talk his way out of it and they let us go.
      Another 90 minutes of driving and we passed through the Swaziland border and back into South Africa.
      We stopped back at the game shop that sold game meat for me to get Biltong to bring home because it’s in smaller vacuum packed packs and then we were going to get an impala wors sausage to go with our ostrich steak and braai rolls but Pete then saw Impala kebabs and insisted we get those instead. Then we realised that we would also be feeding Ron aswell who was back at the house, which wasn’t a problem as Ron would normally insist on paying his way, but for someone that is constantly skint Pete has got really expensive taste. Especially when it’s not his money.
      Back on the road I couldn’t wait to get back to our little house and get out of the car which costs us money every time we get in it.
      Pete said we could drive back through Phinda Game reserve which I knew would take an extra 2 hours but we are here for the animals so we agreed as this would probably be our last game drive.
      Going through Phinda was actually really amazing. It felt like all the animals had come out to say goodbye, we saw 3 Rhino just standing at the side of the road, then we saw a mother and baby rhino laying across the road. We passed hundreds of giraffe, 2 of which were right on the road and we had to drive past and they were about 4 foot away. Then we saw hundreds of zebra, then a massive herd of impala just walking up the road towards us, then wilderbeast and finally a lonely water buffalo who looked very grumpy. It was a lovely last game drive.
      Finally we were back onto tarmac and with just 30km to go I was relieved, and when we finally got back home at 5pm we had been in the car for 6 hours.
      Unloading the car Millie the cat came down to greet us and he was super pleased to see us and wanted lots of cuddles. Then after dropping our stuff off back in our room we all went upto the house where Pete and Ron played chess, I had a non alcoholic beer and Ellie had tea, we were all starving but with the chess game going on and Ron and Pete talking,time ticked on and dinner didn’t even get thought about until 6:30pm and didn’t get started until 7pm.
      While cooking dinner Ron said that he had turned his new job offer down and now wanted to return to Richards Bay on the 24th with us to start looking for something else and Petes face just dropped and turned to panic. Pete had thought originally that Ron would be here for 6 months, when we picked Ron up it had already turned into 3 weeks and now it was just another 3 days. Pete spent the rest of the evening talking in South African to Ron trying to twist his arm into staying longer because we knew that if Ron went, nobody would be here to pay to feed him.
      At 7:30pm dinner was served and it was just the kebabs and potato wedges which were extremely tasty but there was no sign of the ostrich steaks so I mentioned them and hopefully we’ll be having them tomorrow.
      After dinner we all sat in the lounge area of the house. I couldn’t wait to get into bed and luckily Ron said he was going to bed first at 8pm and then the rest of us could follow straight away.
      It had been a very long day of driving and this was our first night in 5 days we would be able to sleep with the windows open and have air in the room.      Read more

    • Traveler2023
      Day 233

      Kruger Park, South Africa

      August 10, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

      We arrived in Johannesburg after over 48 hours of travel since Alaska. We picked up a sim, found my backpack (which I had lost) and then found our rental car. The drive out to Kruger was about 4 hours and was an easy drive to the park. We were staying in an Airbnb in Marloth Park which is about half an hour to the entrance of Kruger. We were excited about this accomodation as there was plenty of wildlife in the advertisement. But when we got to the house we saw our backyard was full of impala and wildebeest! A few minutes later, a huge group of zebra came to visit!! We were so excited!

      The next day, we had planned an easy day with only a sunset safari booked. Mum and I headed down the road to grab a morning coffee. Just as we were walking, I looked up and saw a huge giraffe in the middle of the road in front of me! We followed the giraffe and saw a group of them eating from the trees. They were more timid than the other animals but we still got quite close to see them very well. After coffee, we headed into the closest town to grab some food and supplies and mum and I did some clothes shopping (it’s so cheap here!!). In the afternoon we headed to Kruger park to start our sunset safari. The trip started off slowly and we didn’t have many sighting for the first half an hour. Just as it was getting dark, our guide was alerted to a kill, where a pride of lions were eating a buffalo. We headed over and saw around 15 lions pulling apart a buffalo. It was amazing to see the bloody cats and hear their growls as the ate. The lions didn’t mind that we were there and our truck sat around 15 meters from the kill. Also on the safari, we saw elephants drinking from a waterhole, a heard of buffalo and we glimpsed a leopard slinking through the bushes.

      The next day was our first full day of self driving in the park. But before we left the house, we were greeted again by a few zebras who had stopped by for breakfast. We arrived at Crocodile Bridge Gate at 6am and were one of the first to enter the park. Our first sighting was a larger group of giraffes grazing on tree tops. Before breakfast, we saw some elephants in the distance. We had breakfast at a lodge on the river, where we had a great view of a huge group of hippos. After breakfast, we came across a traffic jam. We shortly realised that there was a family of lions on the road. Somehow we got to the front of the cars and spent a good amount of time driving right behind and beside two lionesses and a cub. It was a very cool experience! For the rest of the afternoon we saw plenty more animals, including a close up of an elephant, hyenas and eagles.

      The following day I woke up early and looked out the window. Just in front of the porch, there were a group of giraffes feasting in our trees!! We headed back into the park after breakfast. Due to our later start, there was less game around. We still saw lots of giraffes, zebra, elephants and buffalo. After lunch we had a close encounter with a group of elephants who were not impressed with us driving so close to them. We came face to face with a huge elephant walking towards us. We reversed quickly which seemed to diffuse the situation. The highlight of the day came in the late afternoon when we came across another huge traffic jam. We asked around and found out that there was a family of cheetahs which we could easily see through our binoculars. Spectacular!      Read more

    • Misadventures Of WandaSouth Africa Solo
      Day 3

      Back in Marloth Park

      March 4 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C

      We were awake at 7am and I got up, went to the kitchen to put the kettle on and I was greeted by an Impala sticking his head over our fence waiting for food. Unfortunately we didn’t have any yet so I unlocked our stupid doors and that scared him off.
      I made coffee and then we sat outside drinking then watching Impala and bushbuck wander by.
      By 9am we were ready to go out and our first stop of the day was the Marloth Game store where we could get food for the animals. We brought a huge bag of sweet potatoes and a 40kg bag of pellets.
      After the game store we popped into the supermarket to get ourselves some food but only brought butter and bread as we decided they didn’t have everything we needed and as we had the camper we could drive to the closest town to get a better variety of food.
      Our closest town is Komatiport and it was a 30 minute drive to get there. The drive was lovely with little traffic but komatiport itself was a bit hectic and South Africa has this thing where you have to drive through lots of car parks to get to the supermarket and that was a bit of a challenge.
      In the Spar we brought a full weeks shopping of meals, extra bottled water and soaps for the shower. It cost us £70 but there were quite a few one off items in that.
      From komatiport we headed back home and unloaded our goodies, then Ellie made us avocado on toast for lunch.
      After lunch we then decided to check out what was in our camper and see how hard the tent was to put up.
      Our little camper is amazing. The back has 2 slide out compartments. The top one is for our bags and stuff and the bottom one has 6 boxes. Each box has it’s own labelled lid and in those boxes are sleeping bags, groundsheet, wash towels and soaps and blankets, kettle cups, plates and cutlery, a gas stove and spare gas, spares for the camper. Down the side of the slide out is our tent and it was super easy to put up. Then there are 2 big foam mattress and 2 pillows in a net on the inside of the roof.
      The fridge has 6 compartments and also has 2 stainless steel water bottles and opposite the fridge are 2 lock boxes to put our own stuff in.
      After we had rummaged around in the camper and played with the tent we locked up and headed out to explore.
      Our first stop was a bird hide overlooking the crocodile river where we saw lots of hippos in the water and lots of impala on the banks.
      Here we met an elderly couple who had moved to Marloth Park a year ago and they loved it.
      From the bird hide we followed crocodile road along the rivers edge until we came back to the main road. Then we drove all the down to the first security gates and picked up Seeskoi road running alongside the river again.
      Along this road we saw, waterbuck, impala, warthog, kudu, zebra and giraffe. It was a great little game drive on our own and as the speed limit is 30kph we just bumbled along for hours watching the wildlife and admiring the houses.
      We finally got back to our house at 4pm.
      It was still 36°c when we got back and I went for a dip in the splash pool to cool off whilst Ellie started sorting out food for the Brae we were going to have for dinner and she lit the fire. She also through out some of the pellets and sweet potato we brought earlier and within minutes we had 2 bushbuck and 4 impala in the garden closely followed by 3 warthog. Then to our amazement a whole family of mongoose came running through so Ellie went and got our eggs and threw 3 of them on the ground. The mongoose loved them and it was so funny watching them and listening to there little squeaks as they were eating, they also had lots of babies.
      Ellie started cooking around 5:30pm, and we had ostrich steaks with Brae rolls. It wasn’t as good as Pete’s cooking, he is now being missed.
      After dinner and just as the sun was setting I set up camera traps and Ellie put out some yogurt and bananas to encourage the bush babies, then we just sat back and watched and waited.
      The Bushbabies came at 7:30pm. I first sign of them was hearing a rustle in the trees and as we looked up we saw them jumping. I put my hand in front of my face to block out our silly garden lights and then we could see that they were already on the feeding table munching away. We were gutted the garden lights were obstructing our vision so tomorrow night we’re going to cover the lights so we can see down the garden. But atleast we know bushbabies are here.      Read more

    • Misadventures Of WandaSouth Africa Solo
      Day 3

      Hanging out with the Locals

      March 4 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C

      I was up at 7am but Ellie was up an hour earlier at 6am. She couldn’t wait for me to check the camera traps and by the time I got up she had already fed the animals and most of them had left. I was left with one lonely warthog and 4 impala.
      Just as I sat down with my coffee we heard rustling in the bushes and then a family of mongoose came running through. As there were no eggs they didn’t stop this time and they all squeaked and chattered while they ran by.
      At 10:30am we headed out with one of the locals and she showed us the ins and outs of Marloth park and was very informative on the rules and regulations of the place and how things are starting to change, mainly for the better. As it stands half of the houses in Marloth park are residential and half are holiday homes or rentals. In certain areas there’s lots of building work going on but there will only ever be the original 4000 stands available.
      Just after lunchtime we headed back to our house for some lunch and Ellie made us new potatoes, salad and Wors sausage. Then after lunch we headed back out to the shops where we brought 20 bin bags to cover the lights in our garden tonight. Then we went back home for a dip in the pool. It is currently 41°c today and very muggy.
      At 5pm we left our house to go one of the bird hides and watch the sunset and look for animals in the Kruger. We sat there in the hide with the sun directly in front of us. We felt like we were melting.
      There were hippos in the river directly below us talking to each other, they all sound like Jaba the Hutt but there were no other animals.
      Sunset was good with the sign disappearing on the horizon and then the sky turning a purple colour. It was only then that the temperature started to fall a little.
      We got back to our place at 7pm. It was now dark and I got to work covering the lights with bin bags while Ellie sorted out food for the bushbabies. Then I set my tripod up right in front of the feeding table with a camera trap on it and situated another camera trap over looking the fence line which Ellie had lined with bananas. Then I got back in the pool for an hour.
      At 9pm there was no sign of the bushbabies but we did have 2 warthog cuddled up next to each other right next to my tripod so we gave up waiting and headed indoors to peep through the blinds. At 9:30pm with no sign of the bushbabies we headed to bed. It was still 30°c outside.      Read more

    • Be KyanSouth Africa 2018
      Day 3

      Kruger Safari

      December 28, 2018 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C

      Acordámos às 4h30 da manhã para um safari já previamente organizado. Uma lancheira de pequeno almoço que o nosso alojamento tinha nos preparado no dia anterior, uns calções e uma t-shirt apesar dos avisos da Filipa, que tinha gelado neste safari há 3 semanas atrás.

      No dia anterior, tinha sido o dia mais quente dos últimos 10 anos. Era impossível termos frio.
      Mas a realidade foi completamente diferente.
      Fomos os primeiros a entrar no parque, a nossa guia Jean levou nos logo ver os leões, passando por todos os animais que já tinhamos vistos no dia anterior mas com uma visão tão apurada, que nem sei como é que ela distinguia muitos dos animais, muito longe e camuflados.
      Felizmente ficamos sozinhos no nosso Jeep, com binóculos para todos. O único problema foi que em vez do sol aparecer, o frio, o vento e a chuva não nos largaram.
      A Jean tinha mantas para todos e capas da chuva, mas tínhamos que nos enrolar todos para estar minimamente confortável.

      Para além do que tínhamos visto no dia anterior, vimos leões, hipopótamos, búfalos, gnus, hienas, águias e uns quantos abutres nas árvores da morte. Árvores essas que diariamente morrem porque os elefantes para além de comerem a casca, arrancam os ramos para comer as folhas mais facilmente. Muitas árvores são também derrubadas nesse processo. Curiosamente, o animal dominante é o elefante e não o rei da selva.

      Dos 10mil rinoceronte que já viveram neste parque, neste momento só sobrevivem 3mil. São mortos 2 rinocerontes por dia através da caça furtiva, a maior parte das vezes durante a noite. Outra das curiosidades partilhadas pela Jean é o número de pessoas mortas por hipopótamos em África: 400 por ano.

      Chegamos ao Phumula Lodge, o nosso alojamento, por volta das 16h, gelados mas felizes, só faltou ver os leopardos.
      Fizemos um churrasco e depois de jantar para tentar definir quem ia buscar mais vinho, jogámos a um jogo. Este jogo deve ter 4 jogadores em simultâneo, mas apenas um é posto à prova de cada vez. O primeiro jogador tem que dançar, o segundo tem que dizer objetos representativos de uma cor (ex:banana =amarelo), o terceiro tem que dizer contas de matemática cujo o resultado não excede o número 10 e o quarto jogador, posto a prova, tem que imitar quem está a dançar, dizer as cores dos objetos que o segundo jogador está a dizer e fazer as contas que o terceiro jogador está a pedir.
      Claro que acabamos por ir todos juntos beber um copo ao bar, porque não chegamos a conclusão de quem seria a vencedor.      Read more

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