 | A holiday I won't forget
2005-04-07, Pretoria, South Africa. By: CrazyAuzie | | Well it has happened again folks. I’ve had my heart ripped from my chest, chewed up and then spat out and discarded like rotting garbage. At least it happened while I’m with friends who are closer t... |
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 | Sheer Frustration
2005-04-04, Pretoria, South Africa. By: CrazyAuzie | | Ok this is the 20th attempt to upload something, anything. Fingers crossed it works this time.
To all those who have sent me an email. I will reply soon, as soon as I can get into hotmail.
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 | Pretoria Zoo
2005-03-30, Pretoria, South Africa. By: CrazyAuzie | | I went to the Pretoria Zoo with Zoe and Arnold and we had a fantastic time. The zoo is huge, we walked all around the zoo (deciding to save ourselves the money on hiring a golf cart and get some good... |
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 | My first Game drive
2005-03-22, Pilanesberg, South Africa. By: CrazyAuzie | | Pilanesberg National Park
My very first game drive, and it was amazing. The moment we drove through the gates we saw a small herd of impala and some warthogs. We saw heaps of Zebra, warthogs and w... |
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 | Quote " I Tawd I Taw A Puddy Tat" Tweety
2005-03-21, Lion Park - North West Province, South Africa. By: CrazyAuzie | | Visiting the Lion Park was an incredible experience. We were shown around by a fantastic guide who gave us heaps of information on how they breed the lions and what they do with them. We saw some ba... |
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 | Err on the side of excess (just in case)
2005-03-15, Pretoria, South Africa. By: CrazyAuzie | | Julie and I went to the Montana Traders Markets today. They are kinda like the Caribbean Markets (for those Victorians reading this) but on a bit of a larger scale (not quite as big as the Queen Vict... |
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 | The most incredible 3 1/2 hours
2005-03-12, De Wildt Cheetah Centre, South Africa. By: CrazyAuzie | | Visiting the De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Centre was an amazing experience. I will cherish the memories for life. I have always loved cats, and I got to pat a big one! De Wildt have one tamed Chee... |
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 | Bullet Proof Vest Anyone?
2005-03-11, Pretoria, South Africa. By: CrazyAuzie | | Each day as I come into the office with Lou and Julie, I have seen this sign. I finally got a picture of it. Anne was asking me if it is dangerous here, and I have been telling her that it’s not rea... |
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 | A new arrival to the family of monkeys
2005-03-10, Pretoria, South Africa. By: CrazyAuzie | | Again we saw the family of Blue Vervet monkeys. This time they were in the trees right above us, not even 10 feet away. We could almost touch them, though not very advisable. The have super sharp te... |
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 | More wildlife sightings
2005-03-09, Pretoria, South Africa. By: CrazyAuzie | | We saw our family of Blue Vervet Monkey’s again when we went on our walk up the Magaliesberg Mountains.
We spent a little more time up the top near the Akasia Reservoir and watched the birds and lo... |
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 | Sam meets a local family!!!!
2005-03-08, Pretoria, South Africa. By: CrazyAuzie | | We took the dogs for their daily walk up the Magaliesberg Mountains and came across a large family of Blue Vervet Monkeys. There were a lot of young monkeys in the family and the older ones were gett... |
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 | South African BBQ
2005-03-06, Pretoria, South Africa. By: CrazyAuzie | | The traditional Sunday lunch is a big thing here. We went to Bertie's home and he cooked a huge feast of traditional South African foods for us. he cooked a Braai (a bit similar to the Aussie BBQ). ... |
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 | nasty little beasts (Ticks)
2005-03-04, Pretoria, South Africa. By: CrazyAuzie | | Zoe and I took Boaston and Rufus for a 5klm walk. Some parts we walked through were long grass. When we got back I felt something on my neck and brushed it off thinking it was just a bug. Later I ... |
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| Witch Doctors
2005-03-03, Pretoria, South Africa. By: CrazyAuzie | | Ok now this just proves that "we are not in Kansas anymore Toto" 3 doors down from Lou & Julie's office is a surgery, clinic or whatever you want to call it. An African Herb Specialist (Traditional ... |
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 | Light show in the sky
2005-03-02, Pretoria, South Africa. By: CrazyAuzie | | Tonight we had the most spectacular electrical storms. The Lightning was so bright that a pitch black street was lit up enough for it to be like dawn. The colours in the sky from the red dirt being ... |
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 | Back to Africa
2005-02-26, Coffee Bay, South Africa. By: jenandmark | | Coffee Bay 26/03/05
After a bus ride from PE to Umtata we got a backpackers shuttle to coffee bay. The shuttle took about 1.5 hrs and took us well off the beaten track to the heart of the wild co... |
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| Surfers paradise- Jeffreys Bay
2005-02-23, J BAY, South Africa. By: jenandmark | | We had to stop at PE as that’s where one bus line ends and another begins, but it wasn’t somewhere youd want to stay . Luckily the hostel picked us up at the bus station and we stayed there one night,... |
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| Not so impressive Garden Route
2005-02-20, Knysna, South Africa. By: jenandmark | | We spent lots of time in Cape Town trying to make forward plans, and whereas we were going to get the Baz Bus ( a hop-on-hop-off backpacker bus) we discovered that we could probably do it all much mor... |
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 | Arriving in beautiful Cape Town
2005-02-13, Cape Town, South Africa. By: jenandmark | | South Africa- February 2005
We arrived in South Africa still on the truck, and stopped at a place called Citrusdaal on the Orange River where they organized a grueling six hour bushman walk in t... |
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| First impressions
2005-03-02, Pretoria, South Africa. By: CrazyAuzie | | South Africa is a rather unusual place. There are certain sights that are no different to home, like gum trees. I was not expecting to see gum trees all over the place, but they are everywhere aroun... |
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| South Africa At Last
2005-02-27, Johannesburg, South Africa. By: CrazyAuzie | | Yippeee Finally my plane lands at 6:28am in Johannesburg. Going through customs was surprisingly hassle free. I had not even completed the immigration forms. I asked the lady a question about fill... |
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 | Destination: Southern Hemisphere
2005-01-12, Johannesburg, South Africa. By: carnivore | | Stumbling through the terminal in Johannesburg looking to buy the last leg of my journey to Botswana. Weary, exhausted, hungry, filthy, delusional….I find the Air Botswana counter and buy a one-way t... |
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 | My first week in South Africa
2001-11-20, Mabula, South Africa. By: katelyn | | I arrived in South Africa on the 18th of Nov and we left for Mabula lodge on the 20th. My parents didnt tell us where we were going so When we pulled into these huge wooden gates with "MABULA GAME LOD... |
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 | Really bad marketing...
2004-07-02, Riding towards town, South Africa. By: ontra | | Speeding along, whipping in and out of traffic on a minibus,I was finally able to tear my eyes of the random strangers crammed into the taxi... paid more attention to the outside of the bus than the i... |
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