Africa
Africa
It’s a Long Haul to Marrakech
Whichever way you go to Marrakech from Australia, it’s a long haul. I chose to go via London as the return flights do not require multiple layovers and it’s a bit simpler. When I left Mebourne Airport for Perth on Friday, the airport was quite calm and not many people were around. For whatever reason, […]
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African Women
On our recent trip through South Africa and Zimbabwe, I found African women to be enchanting. I was especially fascinated with the way that they were able to style their hair into so many forms of creative ‘hair dos’. I asked some of those who we met in restaurants, shops, hotels and on the street […]
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We Just Missed a Disaster
Barbara, one of the people who regularly follow my blog alerted me, yesterday, to a severe weather incident that has caused destruction and devastation in many areas of South Africa. We visited the same places just two weeks ago. It’s so sad to see some of the areas that we most enjoyed visiting being devastated […]
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Soweto
We left Johannesburg on Saturday night but before we departed in the evening, we had some time to do a morning tour of Soweto. Soweto (made up from the initials of the English name, South West Territories) is the black township established by the Apartheid regime in South Africa. In 1948, South Africa’s National Party […]
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Victoria Falls by Helicopter
Before leaving Victoria Falls to return to Johannesburg, I had time for one more activity. We had a booking for the first helicopter flight of the day over the falls. We left the hotel at 7.30 am and by 8.30 am we were weighed and checked in for our ride. Our pilot was a spunky […]
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Waterfalls, Elephants, School and a Local Lunch
On our final day at Victoria Falls, we had a compilation of activities before a grand dinner in the David Livingstone Room of the hotel. Our day began with a walk along the top of the gorge on the Zimbabwean side of Victoria Falls which were discovered by David Livingstone. A statue of him stands […]
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A Day in Chobe National Park
On Wednesday, we went on a day trip from Victoria Falls to the Chobe National Park in Botswana. It was a long day and certainly one of the highlight days of our entire trip. Chobe National Park, in northern Botswana, has one of the largest concentrations of game in Africa and is the third largest park […]
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Victoria Falls
We are getting to the end of our trip now, but we still have a few days in Victoria Falls to conclude our adventure. We flew to Victoria Falls from Johannesburg on a South African Airlines Airbus A330, arriving just after lunch. It looked as if most people on the plane were also tourists as […]
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Travelling to Johannesburg
On Monday, we had a long travel day from Kruger to Johannesburg. It was a long driving day, just to get positioned for our next major destination at Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. This is just a brief post as we were travelling for most of the day with just a few stops. We left Lion […]
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On to Swaziland
By accident, we are clocking up another country in the count of countries that we have visited – Swaziland. Swaziland is an indépendant kingdom bordered by South Africa to the north, south and west and Mozambique to the east. It is no more than 200 kilometres from north to south and 130 kilometres east to […]
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Activities at Ghost Mountain Lodge
Ghost Mountian is a rugged peak with many caves. Over the centuries, Zulus have buried their dead chiefs in the caves and the bright processions by torchlight on the mountain appeared to the people on the plains as if they were ghosts. Our hotel, the Ghost Mountain Lodge was a peaceful place set in beautiful […]
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Durban to Ghost Mountain
Our overnight stop in Durban was nothing short of spectacular. We stayed at the Oyster Box Hotel which has recently been rated as the best hotel in South Africa and the second best in all of the continent of Africa. It is a grand colonial style hotel with staff dressed in elegant uniforms. The doorman […]
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