 | The Journey Planner.
2008-09-30, Pretoria, South Africa. By: Saffa2 | | During our Thailand backpacking experience, a new lust for travelling was created, and this hunger, as we both realized soon after returning to the UK, was impossible to ignore.
We began exploring n... |
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 | My first work trip for the year
2008-02-01, Pretoria, South Africa. By: giventofly | | From 20 Jan - 1 Feb I led a group of 17 North Americans on a trip through South Africa, visiting 3 game reserves in the Hoedspruit area where we saw the most amazing game sightings including all of th... |
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 | Game farm
2006-03-13, Pretoria, South Africa. By: Digtacular | | While visiting my ex-girlfriend Maryke in Pretoria we checked out a game farm near Pretoria. You drive your car through different areas of the farm and see all kinds of animals right outside your car... |
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 | The wonderful People at flight Centre
2005-04-28, Pretoria, South Africa. By: CrazyAuzie | | As many of you are already aware, I left for South Africa from Adelaide. Because of the change in my circumstances I am now returning to Melbourne and not to Adelaide. However, I have not been able ... |
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 | Not all People in Africa live in Mud Huts
2005-04-03, Pretoria, South Africa. By: CrazyAuzie | | Contrary to common beliefs held in Australia, not everyone in Africa lives in mud huts with grass roofs. I have included some photo’s of Lou and Julie’s home just for proof. Lou and Julie live in th... |
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 | Ohagan's - Irish Pub
2005-04-30, Pretoria, South Africa. By: CrazyAuzie | | O’hagan’s is a franchise Irish pub here in South Africa. The service and atmosphere are fantastic, as is the food and drink. They have these snack platters that you can either order for 2 people or ... |
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 | 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.
Hav... |
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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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 | 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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 | 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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| 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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