We spent a week in Singapore exploring, before out flight to Johannesburg. The first three nights we spent at the Marina Bay Sands, a beautiful hotel with roof top spas, shops and restaurants. Moved to the Calton Hotel for the rest of our stay, a very nice hotel which is a bit more budget friendly. …
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South Africa, Cape Town Area. Last Time with the Truck.
Currently sitting in Coconut Bay Mozambique. Thinking I will do some short quick posts to try and catch up. Unfortunately, now that I start this post, I realise just how much we have done, and it is only getting worse as we are now travelling faster in more exotic territory. We flew back to Cape …
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South Africa, Jul-Aug 25, Part 6. South Kruger to the End
Some highlights of the second entry into Kruger. First camp Skukuza. A busy campsite, there is a restored train known as the Kruger Shalati sitting on the rail bridge that spans the Sabi River. These trains once carried visitors into the park nearly a century ago, this was stopped because too many animals were being …
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South Africa, Jul-Aug 25 Part 5, Blyde River Canyon and Panorama route
Kruger park was full for this week so we left to have a look around the Blyde River Canyon. On the drive up to the Blyde River Forever Resort campsite we found ourselves in the middle of a celebration. Lots of drinking and yahooing. I thought it might be a soccer or a rugby match …
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South Africa, Jul-Aug 25, Part 4 Mapungubwe to Kruger-Punda Maria to Olifants
When the Elephant Came to Visit. Mazhou camp has an electric fence to keep the animals out so we thought it would be relatively safe, except that when we arrived we found out that the gate had been broken a few nights before by an elephant. One evening, after the camp was asleep after a …
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South Africa, Jul-Aug 25. Part 1: Johannesburg, Soweto, Springs.
We arrived to -3C in Johannesburg after the usual uneventful but long flight. Antonie from Southern Africa Overland Storage picked us up from the airport and took us shopping on the way to the warehouse. At the warehouse we found the truck batteries flat. Luckily, we have a battery isolator/combiner and were able to connect …
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Wineries in Western Cape South Africa
One of our favourite small wineries. We stayed here for a week in the gated golf resort/winery. Lovely to be able to walk around the vineyards. We thought that we would try the Springbok it was excellent. Quite often here the chef will come out after service and have a chat, on this occasion we …