Londolozi

We left Hermanus yesterday and flew to Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport on South African Airways and then took another 20 minute private airline (light aircraft, seats a maximum of 9) on a 20 minute flight to Londolozi Game Reserve's private air strip. You can get a road transfer from the airport but that takes over 2 hours to get there. The little plane was a wee bit scary as the plane couldn't go very high because of the short distance. Quite a bit of bouncing around but our 2 nineteen-ish year old pilots handled it well.

We are staying at the Granite Suites at Londolozi. There are only 3 suites in this camp and there are only two other guests here at the moment which is fantastic. The other couple just happen to be from Vancouver, too. Small world! Our suite is huge and gorgeous with outdoor private pool, outdoor bathtub and outdoor shower. We tried to upload a video but this beautiful country's internet is total KOK ('shit' in Afrikaans). Here is a picture right outside the back of our suite.

The days here are quite busy and go something like this:

5:00 a.m.: Knock at door to wake you with coffee and pastries.

5:30 a.m. game drive

8am crepes and coffee out in the bush

10am game drive done, full breakfast buffet plus hot breakfast

1:30pm lunch

4pm tea and pastries

4:30pm game drive

7:30 dinner

Someone had told Jess that all the animals here are microchipped and they can find them easily at anytime but this is not true of the private game reserves. There are no fences on this property and the day can be hit or miss. We have only been on 2 drives so far and both have been definite hits. Here are just a few of the pictures from 5 hours worth of driving (oh, and the giraffe picture is crap but we were racing to find two female lions and their cubs which we never found. Hopefully we'll take a nicer one tonight). The safari has been so brilliant. Last night we saw a leopard eating his kill in a tree (an impala... which we captured on video) and a bunch of hyenas eating another impala that they stole from the other leopards mother.

Oh, and you should also see our guide. Hy sit n huppel in our knupples.

There is much, much more to show you and write but we're not willing to spend our time hoping that we have enough bandwidth to get everything onto a posting. Maybe we'll have more patience tomorrow.