weekend 3- hhluwhe park safari and other stuff!!
11 Aug 2008 at 21:12
well went to the safari park and the boat trip starting on friday and really had a fab time! loved every minute of it. we also went to a cheetah park where i stood a few feet away form the cheetah scary ay!!!
The safari was an early and freezing start on saturday morning, rising at 5am!! (4am uk time) like oh my goodness it was cold!! and way too early for me!!
we started on friday morning and left here at the bluff at 6 am and made our way to northern Kwa zulu Natal! it was a lovely morning! but we went to the boat ride first! we saw lots and lots of crocodiles and hippos in the river which was really good! managed to get very close to the hippos but they are very dangerous and so we stayed far enough away or they attck the boat apparently!!!then we went to the cheetah farm rehabilitation centre and it was very nice!! tehre were many cats and they were all very pretty!!
we then went back to the house for dinner and had an early nights rest ready for the early rise the...
Random weekend in South Africa
05 Aug 2008 at 21:39
Friday: Had a wicked day in Durban sight seeing and buying pressies for back home!! and yes dad found you a good present for once!! Took lots of pictures down by the beach and the weather was lovely. the people on the beach made massive art with the sand there are some pics that i have of some of them. Very amazing... was a lovely day and saw all the little stalls where they sold handmade gifts etc. Was a really fun day. Then helped at Isiaiah 54 in the evening with the children.
We have been painting the wall outside Isiaiah 54 during the week and its coming along nicely. ended up with red paint all over me but it was fun doing it!!
Saturday: Officially one of the best days so far!! went on a boat trip to watch for whales and dolphins. it was so lovely went out really far. But never saw any!! bum ay! but went really fast on the boat and was like weeee!!! had a truely fab time. Found out that the shark nets do not even stop the sharks as they can swim under, over and around...
Week one and weekend 1 in South Africa
27 Jul 2008 at 19:28
Well its been week/end one here in South Africa and its been tiring i'll give it that. I will try to add as many pictures on here as possible but take far too long to upload onto here. Having a great time with the children most of this week has been using the video camera but will be getting more pictures of the children as time goes by!! This weekend has been good went to the Drakensburg Mountains, left at 6am yesterday and went for a day trip to sani pass (across a border into the Sani Pass country and so needed my passport). Then went to the highest pub in Africa!! it was lovely very cold though, -3 degrees!! Then stayed in a Backpackers accommodation which was freezing. went hiking for 3 hours at 7.30 am, which i did not like!! im so clumsy footed and probably moaned the whole way!! an experience never to be done again unless im dragged!! haha. then went for a 2hour horse trail! which was so much fun! I rode 2 horses one called beauty and one which didnt have a name! they were...
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