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  • kriskatkat wrote a new blog post: Day 28 – South Africa to London   10 years, 12 months ago · View

    Day 28 -March 22 Well the time had come. We packed up early and started the long drive out of Kruger into Johannesburg. We were lucky to see some animals on the way out, and silently we said our goodbyes to them and the park. The drive to the airport was long – about 7 hours […]

  • kriskatkat wrote a new blog post: Day 27 – Satara to Lower Sabie   10 years, 12 months ago · View

    Day 27 – March 21 See pics here. AM Drive Left Satara this morning to go to Lower Sabie Rest Camp. This will be our last night in Kruger, as tomorrow we leave South Africa and arrive in London. We cannot believe how fast this trip has gone by! Well, we had a very lucky morning. The drive […]

  • kriskatkat wrote a new blog post: Day 26 – Letaba to Satara   10 years, 12 months ago · View

    Day 26 – March 20 See pics here AM Drive Left Letaba rest camp at 5:30am, and are driving to Satara rest camp to spend the night. We took another route south, driving through Olifants again to get gasoline (petrol if you are south African!!). We passed the hyena den, and saw the parents and pups […]

  • kriskatkat wrote a new blog post: Day 25 – Letaba   10 years, 12 months ago · View

    Day 25 – March 19 See pics here. Up bright and early again. This morning was not very eventful – for some reason all the animals seemed to be hiding, or at least staying out of our sight. Forgot to mention that yesterday we visited the Elephant Museum here at Letaba. It is quite an incredible set up, […]

  • kriskatkat wrote a new blog post: Day 24 – Bye Mopani, hello Letaba   10 years, 12 months ago · View

    Day 24 – Monday March 18 See pics here. AM Drive We packed up our stuff at Mopani and were out of there by 6:30am. Heading to Letaba, though not taking a direct route such that we would have the chance to drive more roads/tracks in the park AND drive to the border of Mozambique. We saw […]

  • kriskatkat wrote a new blog post: Day 23 – Mopani   10 years, 12 months ago · View

    Day 23 – Morning Self Drive See pics here. Got up early (5am) so that we’d be first out the camp gate when it opened at 5:30am. At this time of the year, all camps close their gates at 6pm, and reopen at 5:30am. If you are not at your camp by 6pm, you are fined. We […]

  • kriskatkat wrote a new blog post: Goodbye Dulini, Hello Mopani – Day 22   11 years ago · View

    Day 22 – Morning (see pics here) All good things come to an end. Today was our last safari drive at Dulini with our friends. Highlights from the drive were a leopard (the one with the cut on the back of his leg), a Steenbok and a crash of rhinos. A steenbok is yet another type of […]

  • kriskatkat wrote a new blog post: Dulini Adventures – Day 21   11 years ago · View

    Day 21 (see pics here ) AM Safari Drive Up again at 5am. When walking in the dim light of dawn to the jeep, we heard a “HUH HUH HUH” which we initially thought may have been baboons calling. However, we learned that this was a lion calling, and their calls can be heard up to 8km […]

  • kriskatkat wrote a new blog post: Dulini – Day 20 continued   11 years ago · View

    Day 20 Continued: Afternoon/Evening
    (see pics here)
    Another sunny, beautiful day of lounging between safari drives. Per, Dylan and Kyle came over to ‘our place’ and Jim and Kyle amused themselves (and us) by doing cannonballs into our plunge pool. I’m sure the pool was not built for this purpose, but they had fun making waves and displacing all […]
  • kriskatkat wrote a new blog post: Dulini Safari Adventures Continue!   11 years ago · View

    Day 20 5:30am Safari We were sure nothing could beat our evening drive last night where we saw the leopard kill (see Day 19 post below), but again, somehow Patrick and Tyrone ‘upped the ante’. First off, a giraffe. Wow, it was right out of the movies, watching this giant right in front of us was […]

  • kriskatkat wrote a new blog post: Dulini Lodge   11 years ago · View

    Day 19 See pics here. Off again on our second safari – leaving just as it started to get light outside (about 5:30am), with high hopes. There are a few lodges in the area we are in, and all of them keep in touch with one another via radio. If someone sights an animal, they will let each […]

  • kriskatkat wrote a new blog post: The Safari Begins!   11 years ago · View

    Day 17 The day has come – today we drove to ‘The Kruger’. Kruger National Park is world renowned for the diverse wildlife it is home to. Our drive from Benoni (just outside of Johannesburg) was interesting – our GPS decided to go haywire, so we had to rely on the ‘old school method of reading […]

  • Day 9 Sue and Rob drove us to the airport hotel for noon. We were sad to say goodbye. They treated us royally, and we had such an enjoyable time with them. However, it is not goodbye for long – they will be travelling to Florida in September, and we are going to try to swing […]

  • kriskatkat wrote a new blog post: Au revoir Paris……hello London!   11 years ago · View

    Day 6 (see pics here) We left our cute abode at 6:30am….we wanted to make sure we beat rush hour traffic on the metro since we had all of our luggage. During rush hour, as you can imagine, there is no room to move on the subway, and luckily our plan worked – it was a relatively […]

  • kriskatkat wrote a new blog post: Last day in Paris   11 years ago · View

    Day 5 Early start today…..Notre Dame church was first on the list. A beautiful building with Gothic style architecture, it’s groundbreaking dates back to 1163! Because we are visiting during the ‘off season’ we were able to walk right up to the church and go inside – during ‘busy season’ long line ups are commonplace. See […]

  • kriskatkat wrote a new blog post:   11 years ago · View

    Day 3 Rained and snowed today – not hard but constant precipitation of some sort – and the day started off warmer than yesterday but got colder. We got a late start due to jet lag issues, but still managed to have a full day. Remember when we said that the metro was ‘easy peasee’? Well, […]

  • kriskatkat wrote a new blog post: Bonjour Paris!   11 years, 1 month ago · View

    Leaving Toronto Day 1 Well, the trip that has been a dream for a year (and longer!!) became a reality once we were on the plane. The weather in Toronto cooperated; so did customs. Our luggage was not weighed, nor were our ‘liquids’ examined; however, we did have to remove our shoes and belts. It was an […]

  • kriskatkat wrote a new blog post: Paris, London, South Africa….here we come!   11 years, 1 month ago · View

    Wow, feels good to be back writing this blog! It has been 6 years since our year long adventure, and although we have travelled a few places since then (Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Washington D.C., Maine, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Moose Factory/Moosonee), and had amazing fun together with family and friends, no place has quite the […]