Etosha, The Great White Place. I’m sure that you’ve read a hundred personal accounts of why Etosha was amazing and why you should visit. I’m not going to tell you that. In fact I’d like to keep my Etosha experience all to myself. I’d like to keep all that incredible bright white mind-expanding open space…
Category: The Bush
Mushara Outpost Soothes (Review)
You know that feeling you get when you arrive in the bush after an endless dusty, sweaty journey in the car? That soul soothing sound of nothing as you step out . The cliched deafening silence comment comes to mind. Mushara Outpost has it in bucket loads and then some. As one of four properties in…
The rest of Addo to Karoo trip
Laughing and wailing wake me from my dreams and plunge me straight into memories of nights camping in the Kalahari. That familiar feeling sends shivers up my spine as I wonder how far away the hyenas are from the tent. A bead of sweat forms on my forehead and I pull the duvet up around…
Addo to Karoo – Day One
The Zuurberg Mountains and Addo Arrival Prehistoric images spring to mind as we wind our way up the dusty corrugated track into the Zuurberg. Horse rides and a sweltering hike remind us how much we need rain in the Eastern Cape. The Zuurberg section of the Park is characterised by grasslands, fynbos and deep rugged…