Saturday 17th October - Thursday 22nd October 2009
Day 111 - 116
Why go to Kruger Park I hear you ask when you've got Twycross Zoo, Drayton Manor Park & Zoo and West Midlands Safari Park on your doorstep in Birmingham?
The difference is in Kruger the animals were there first with the park set up as a huge conservation effort to protect the area and its wildlife. Oh yeah - Kruger Park is also the size of Wales.
Kruger was good fun. As well as seeing elephants and buffalo up close(a little too close for my liking actually) we still hadn't seen any lions or leopards. In fact the only cat we'd seen so far was Pushka, Roni and Ivor's Siamese. However, we got to see lions at Kruger which was an honour.
Out of the park we drove up into the mountains with a quick stop off at Blyde River Canyon (the third largest canyon in the world) before finding a delightful little campspot set on the Sabie River which flows into the park. It was so delightful we ended up staying for two nights.
We're currently back at our friends Roni and Ivor's place in Johannesburg getting spoilt rotten with their fantastic hospitality. We've managed to get loads sorted for our onwards travel and also said a sad farewell to the Yaris who we handed back 9,973 kilometres worse off than when we picked it up. Solid as a rock she was!
Tomorrow morning we strap our backpacks firmly on and set off to pastures new. Maputo, the capital of Mozambique is our next destination with the plan to travel north up the coast before cutting inland towards Malawi. That's the plan anyway....
Without a car this feels like a new chapter in our travels and we're both really looking forward to this next step into the unknown. Speak soon.
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