Excellent adventures in travel
In November, I spent 2 weeks visiting friends in Cairo. Just before I arrived, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) opened the majority of its galleries as part of a “limited access” program “to test site readiness.” This museum has been a loooong time coming. Conceived as a Hosni Mubarak vanity project back in 2002, … Read more
Thursday was our last full day at Idube. At dawn, we headed out to the site where we had seen Tsaya the leopard stash her kill on the previous day. We passed a beautiful new (to us) species of antelope, Waterbuck, en route. On arrival at Tsaya’s kill site, we found two hyenas, an adult … Read more
By Wednesday morning, we had the routine down: collected from our chalets like goslings at 5:30 am and escorted to the lounge for a quick hit of beverages and muffins. Into the safari vehicle by 6am to greet dawn in the bush. About 4 hours hacking around looking for wildlife (broken by a “coffee stop” … Read more
Some of us were wide awake for our 5:15 am wake up call on Tuesday – others, not so much. Everyone managed to stumble to the reception area where coffee, tea, juice and muffins lured everyone into awake-ness. The five of us were joined today by Rob and Kay, a couple from Australia. Rob grew … Read more
On Monday morning, Vineyard Ventures collected us at 7:30 am for our transfer north to the Greater Kruger region. We left Cape Town International Airport on Airlink at 10:35 am for the 2.5 hour flight to Skukuza, a small airport serving the southern part of Greater Kruger. We had lovely views of CapeTown as we … Read more