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Flying across the Antartic

My room in Shoestring Hotel in Joburg

Finally they arrived... And needed money...

Kruger Park and surroundings, we stayed in Balule reserve, in Amekula lodge and Toro Yaka lodge just above Hoedspruit and in Moholoholo just below Hoedspruit

Dinner in a restaurant near Moholoholo

The bush that Giraffes eat

The chalets at Moholoholo Mountain View where the rest of the family stayed.

Monkeys!

They're just as curious of me as I am of them...

The chalet where Rose, Eva and I slept in.

Close encounters...

Family of the Antilope

Breakfast the next morning, bit chilly.

A watchdog and watchcheetah

I am the Guardian

Go on, make my day...

That's why the place is called 'Mountain View'. It has a mountain view.

Yellowbilled Hornbill

Am I getting too close?

Hush! No talking here!

We're watching wildlife... Banded Mongoose

On our way to the next stop, these were our cars.

He's found something...

My very own little house in Moholoholo Forest Camp, our next lodge

The inside

My beds

The main building

The eating deck

Moholoholo Forest Camp lodge, left the main building, right the eating deck.

Visitors at my chalet. Dwarf Mongoose

Feathery visitors

Eagle at the Moholoholo Rehab Centre

Lynx, also at the rehab centre

Vultures at the rehab centre

Magnificent Lion, also at the rehab

This one has never been in the wild

No scrathes, no marks

Well fed, that's so not wild.

Our first encounter with a wild Rhino, on our first game drive going back to the lodge from the rehab centre.

Sniffin dung...

First bushwalk, first Giraffe!

Next time, stay in ur care human!

You don't see these signs back home...

For the dutch readers...

A fresh can of chilled water every night...

Giraffe tracks!

Baboon tracks...

Olifants river, early mornings

Elephants tracks! Seemingly a male, looking for a female, according to our guide. It leaves wet patches near its footprints.

Swimming at own risk...

Whoa! Spot the Eli!

Eli! On our second bushwalk! We tracked it, and found it!

It knows we're there, but its still fun pretending

I wonder who's more scared...

I am safe here, right?

The breakfast/dining area at Toro Yaka, our lodge in Balule reserve.

The relaxing/viewing area at Amekula lodge, our neighbours, where everyone else stayed.

Pretty bushflower

What we used for rice at the wedding to throw at the newly wed.

More pretty flowers

Giraffe! Not our first, which we saw at Moholoholo during our first bushwalk, but this is closer!

Gamedriving, full load

Watching the sunset

Always makes people warm and loving

Father and Daughter

Father and yougest and oldest daughter

Baboons! In Kruger park.

And Giraffes in Kruger

Buffalo, man, they're big

How cute, Buffalo's crossing...

Yawn, can we go now? A few thousand is enough...

Very pretty little Lilacbreasted Roller

Weird bird, Redbilled Hornbill

Yellowbilled Hornbill...

Lucky shot... Awesome

Youngster impalas

Heaps of impalas

Impalas and a Gnoe (Black Wildebeest)

I call it the ”Orange Eyed Blue Bird“. Others call it the Cape Glossy Starling.

Green tree. Not just the leaves are green, the entire tree is green, including the roots. Now that's being green.

A Natal Francolin

The vastness of nothingness

Digging up roots

Don't ask. Have no idea what this bird is. I call it a Dodo, others a Ground Hornbill.

Zebra and Bushbucks in the background

Young Kudu male

Hyena with cubs! They're so sweet...

View across Olifants river in Kruger Park

Massive croc in Olifants river...

Ah, my “Orange Eyed Blue Bird” again...

Hippo! Still in Kruger...

Kruger Squirrel.

Marabou and Fish Eagle

View across a Kruger river

I call it the “Black Masked Yellow Bandit”, officially they call it a Orangebreasted Bushstrike

Red Winged Starling, Cape Glossy Starling and a Bluemantled Flycatcher

Ah, my Bandit again...

Feeding time for the Bushbuck

View across Olifants river from Letaba in Kruger Park.

Surprise night gamedrive, watching lions for an hour and a half...

Only a few meters between them and our landrover...

To pet or not to pet...

Two male lions, one female and 3 cubs

My brothers may not bite, but I do!

Ah, the smell of female urine...

View of Amekula lodge

Relaxing area at Toro Yaka lodge

The gate at Toro Yaka. Uhm, guys, there's no fence?!?!

The gate to Balule Reserve

View onto Blyde River Canyon

Blyde River Canyon

The top of the mountain at the back has the highest rugby field on the southern hemisphere, or so I'm told. It's an army rugby field.

Blyde River Canyon

Tavern along the route, very nice sandwiches... Lovely garden

Inside the Tavern, they are also a hotel

View of the Panoramic Route

He always liked to stand out from the crowd, be different...

Fantastic view at sunset of the Pinnacle

Bush Walk Teacher Steve, teaching about Termites

Very small flowers

Yes! One of the little five! The Ant Lion.

Underground termite mound. Top left hole is empty, Lower hole is used, the temperature inside is noticably higher.

Small jumping spider on the edge of the lower hole.

Hippo's in Olifants river.

And Crocs... I guess still no swimming here.

Massive amounts of vultures circling. Most likely a kill happened there.

A Fish Eagle eating its catch.

Argh! Humans! Dive! Dive!

Just missed it. Never found it again. Snake tracks

Horse back riding in the bush!

Even the old ladies take a change...

Porcupine viewed from the viewing area at Amukela

Big ant, about 2 cm.

My room at Toro Yaka

Every night after making the bed, they left a chocolate, and a bedtime story

Tiny little spider in my room

Bush chickens at the Toro Yaka waterhole.

Visitors at Toro Yaka

Giraffes around Toro Yaka

Drinking from the Toro Yaka waterhole

Toro Yaka's swimming pool

The Toro Yaka Booma, where dinner was sometimes served.

Some people needed that more than others...

Amekula gate, fully fenced...

Another village in the Blyde River Canyon area.

The rooms at the Tavern

Peacocks at the Tavern

Almost the entire family

Green on one side, brown on the other side of the road.

More souvenir shops

View from God's Window

My room at the Farm Inn in Pretoria

Still my room, guess it was big enough

Farm Inn Reception

One of the buildings of Farm Inn, where some of the rooms are

Beneath the stairs is my room

Mum and Dad's room (beow), with veranda

Farm Inn lounge area

Another view of the lounge

Outside the lounge area

My last day in Joburg, a last meal at McGinty's Traditional Irish Pub with Mum and Dad.

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