Day 16 – Chobe National Park – Continued

I will start by saying WIFI is extremely touch and go here at Thebe River Safari. We went on our river safari this afternoon with a guide by the name of Robert. Before I start writing about the cruise, we went for a walk to the supermarket with Jayenne while we were waiting between safaris. […]

Day 16 – Chobe National Park

I’ll start the blog by a quote from the inimitable Dorothy, we aren’t in Kansas anymore Toto! The difference between the accomodation and friendliness of the staff at Victoria Falls compared to the accomodation and staff here in Botswana is like we are in Oz but have arrived in the Wicked Witch of the West’s […]

Day 15 – Victoria Falls to Kasane, Botswana

This morning we are transferring from Victoria Falls to Kasane in Botswana. We got to have a little sleep in as we weren’t going to do the Victoria Falls tour until 8 am, we did however need to be packed before we went so that we could just get ourselves tidied up and checked out […]

Day 14 – Victoria Falls

Today we have a bit of a free day which we are making the most of. All of the others have gone down to Chobe National Park for the day, however we aren’t doing the day version we are going down there for three days after this tour so this has given us a free […]

Day 13 – Johannesburg to Victoria Falls

This morning we were up early again. Today we are transferring from Johannesburg to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. A very short international flight of 1:50 . We got to the airport about 7:30 as the traffic wasn’t as bad as Johannes had thought it was going to be. Check in was pretty smooth as was […]

Day 12 – Karongwe to Johannesburg

Today is the official last day of the tour. We are heading back to Johannesburg to the Southern Sun where we will have our final dinner together as a group. Of the 14 of us 2 are off to Namibia, 2 are returning home and 10 of us are going on to Victoria Falls. In […]

Day 11 – Karongwe Game Reserve

This morning we were woken up at 5 am for our safari drive which started at 5:30. We had time for a quick shower and coffee and then we were off to the safari vehicles. Our guide Jack and Ramondo our tracker were waiting for us and once the six of us were in the […]

Day 10 – Kruger to Karongwe Private Game Reserve.

Another early (although later than yesterday) start this morning. We needed to be at breakfast by 7 am and out at the bus by 7:40 so that Johannes could give us an overview of Africa, South Africa and Kruger National Park. We were on the road by 8:30 and were driving the couple of hundred […]

Day 9 – Kruger National Park

I am going to start by saying I apologise that the pictures aren’t going to probably do Kruger justice. I sold my mirrorless camera because I didn’t really learn to use it and wasn’t confident with all the settings so we have been using our iPhones for photos on this trip. We have two people […]

Day 8 – Johannesburg to Kruger

Today we were in the bus almost all day. We left the hotel in Rosebank about 7:15 and have just arrived (17:15) at the Umbhaba Eco Lodge in Hazy View which is about 15 minutes or so (plus or minus as they say in Africa) from the gate to Kruger National Park. The drive is […]