exit the park and heading south to Grakop. Coffe and a quick shop for peri-peri and roisbos tea.
Long winding climb to Mount Sheba. Amazing location
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Location:Pilgrim's Rest, Drakensburg
Monday, August 12, 2013
Mount Sheba Lodge
26th July
exit the park and heading south to Grakop. Coffe and a quick shop for peri-peri and roisbos tea.
Long winding climb to Mount Sheba. Amazing location
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exit the park and heading south to Grakop. Coffe and a quick shop for peri-peri and roisbos tea.
Long winding climb to Mount Sheba. Amazing location
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Detour from plan
25th July
From Sunrise Camp to northernmost entry, Punda Maria. One long game drive south to Swingdhezi for human fuel.
Onwards south to Marponi and a very nice 3 bedroom house, government run.
Dinner at the nearby NP restaurant. Good enough.
Excellent shower so excellent night's sleep.
25th July
Breakfast at the NP restaurant.
Visit the on-site elephant museum.
then heading on to exit at the Polohawa Gate but just before the exit decided to visit an iron smelting archeological ruin.
Ruin was fair but the guide mentioned that a lioness and two cubs were at the anthill some 300m away from us. Sure 'nuff.
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From Sunrise Camp to northernmost entry, Punda Maria. One long game drive south to Swingdhezi for human fuel.
Onwards south to Marponi and a very nice 3 bedroom house, government run.
Dinner at the nearby NP restaurant. Good enough.
Excellent shower so excellent night's sleep.
25th July
Breakfast at the NP restaurant.
Visit the on-site elephant museum.
then heading on to exit at the Polohawa Gate but just before the exit decided to visit an iron smelting archeological ruin.
Ruin was fair but the guide mentioned that a lioness and two cubs were at the anthill some 300m away from us. Sure 'nuff.
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Location:Kruger NP
The run for the border.
24th July Wednesday
Geoff clearly daunted by the 4 hours of beaucracy that it took for him to cross from SA to Zim on the way up has nothing planned for today other than to get across the border.
From Norma-Jean's Resort to the border is about 4 hours although once on the south bound main SA to Harare route slight economic uplift was detected. Subtle but there.
The border crossing was a breeze, relatively speaking. $0 and a few lines to get out of Zim. The main issue is not knowing which line to be in and in what order. The chances of lining up and finding out you needed a stamp from a different window first were high.
The lines and associated chaos in the northbound traffic was something to see. Too scared to take any pictures.
headed on south in to Soutanberg and the Mashovhela (Sunrise) Lodge. No wifi, very quiet. 17 for dinner last night just 3 tonight
plesant enough but not pleasant enough to stay the planned two nights. Plan B' was developed to blow off the 2nd night and instead drive in to Kruger NP and hed south in the park rather than drive parallel to it (orig plan)
but
remember that stop at the giant baobob tree yesterday? Remember the bump driving over the rock as we left? Well it punctured the power steering fluid supply line in the Kombi. Getting started early this morning (Thurs 25th) was a good thing as it gave us time to get to the VW dealer in Louis Pritchardt to investigate the weird noises.
Looks like we are going to be all good.
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Geoff clearly daunted by the 4 hours of beaucracy that it took for him to cross from SA to Zim on the way up has nothing planned for today other than to get across the border.
From Norma-Jean's Resort to the border is about 4 hours although once on the south bound main SA to Harare route slight economic uplift was detected. Subtle but there.
The border crossing was a breeze, relatively speaking. $0 and a few lines to get out of Zim. The main issue is not knowing which line to be in and in what order. The chances of lining up and finding out you needed a stamp from a different window first were high.
The lines and associated chaos in the northbound traffic was something to see. Too scared to take any pictures.
headed on south in to Soutanberg and the Mashovhela (Sunrise) Lodge. No wifi, very quiet. 17 for dinner last night just 3 tonight
plesant enough but not pleasant enough to stay the planned two nights. Plan B' was developed to blow off the 2nd night and instead drive in to Kruger NP and hed south in the park rather than drive parallel to it (orig plan)
but
remember that stop at the giant baobob tree yesterday? Remember the bump driving over the rock as we left? Well it punctured the power steering fluid supply line in the Kombi. Getting started early this morning (Thurs 25th) was a good thing as it gave us time to get to the VW dealer in Louis Pritchardt to investigate the weird noises.
Looks like we are going to be all good.
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Location:Mashovela Lodge, SA
Sunrise Lodge and plan B'
24th July
Fairly unimpressive lodge. Only guests tonight. Private game reserve but surrounded by hunting territory hence the game is constantly spooked.
Dinner was butter with veg.
One thing cool at the Sunrise Lodge was the "donkey"/solar hot water gizmo
Plan B' prime is hatched. Instead of 2 nights at this place forfeit the 2nd night and instead spend a day and a night in Kruger NP
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Fairly unimpressive lodge. Only guests tonight. Private game reserve but surrounded by hunting territory hence the game is constantly spooked.
Dinner was butter with veg.
One thing cool at the Sunrise Lodge was the "donkey"/solar hot water gizmo
Plan B' prime is hatched. Instead of 2 nights at this place forfeit the 2nd night and instead spend a day and a night in Kruger NP
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Location:near Zim-SA border
Roy and Lynn
Contrast and compare the two life stories.
Lynn: liverpool, 32 years, husband printer, son trying to be printer. the good years. the disaster. after the crash she had $2.01
Roy: grew up on farm near half-way house (between Vic Falls and Bulawayo) near Hwange NP. father had him driving and shooting game game at 11 years. Including knowing how to butcher and prepare the meat.
Story of the wooden floor. and ho after the farm was seized the new owners dug up the floor for fire wood. Married and english girl last year and went to england only to be refused entry as UK immigration declared it a marriage of convenience. currently saving another $1200 to return again - this time lawyer assisted.
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Lynn: liverpool, 32 years, husband printer, son trying to be printer. the good years. the disaster. after the crash she had $2.01
Roy: grew up on farm near half-way house (between Vic Falls and Bulawayo) near Hwange NP. father had him driving and shooting game game at 11 years. Including knowing how to butcher and prepare the meat.
Story of the wooden floor. and ho after the farm was seized the new owners dug up the floor for fire wood. Married and english girl last year and went to england only to be refused entry as UK immigration declared it a marriage of convenience. currently saving another $1200 to return again - this time lawyer assisted.
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Location:Big Cave Camp
Rhodes Matopo to Great Zim
22nd July
Rhodes grave.
dinner at Big Cave Lodge
23rd July Tuesday
early start from Big Cave Lodge. 4hr drive to Geat Zimbabwe.
Beautiful day. excellent ruins. Very little on-site information except in the really well layed out museum. No photos allowed so no record of the really good information. The museum is really outstanding.
fill in Great Zim detail here
The site was populated with a class from Makuro University, a middle school and a primary school. The primary school kids returned to their large school bus in the parking lot. Everyone on board. Bus quiet then all windows flung open and all the trash simulataneously got thrown out of every window. Obviously the teacher had declared clean-up time.
Drive on to nearby Norma-Jean's guest house. Very chintzy english type cottages. Stunningly lush gardens overlooking lake. All very pleasant.
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Rhodes grave.
dinner at Big Cave Lodge
23rd July Tuesday
early start from Big Cave Lodge. 4hr drive to Geat Zimbabwe.
Beautiful day. excellent ruins. Very little on-site information except in the really well layed out museum. No photos allowed so no record of the really good information. The museum is really outstanding.
fill in Great Zim detail here
The site was populated with a class from Makuro University, a middle school and a primary school. The primary school kids returned to their large school bus in the parking lot. Everyone on board. Bus quiet then all windows flung open and all the trash simulataneously got thrown out of every window. Obviously the teacher had declared clean-up time.
Drive on to nearby Norma-Jean's guest house. Very chintzy english type cottages. Stunningly lush gardens overlooking lake. All very pleasant.
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Location:Matopo Hills to Great Zim
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
zero internet access
absolutely zero wifi over the last 7 days.
i'll patch up this mess in the next couple of days.
apologies.
(dyane's email "critical accident" is clearly a hack - interesting one though)
i'll patch up this mess in the next couple of days.
apologies.
(dyane's email "critical accident" is clearly a hack - interesting one though)
Location:palo alto
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