After spending the past three days having the most insane wildlife encounters in the southern part of Kruger, today we’re making our way a little bit north. We’ll use Hazy View as our base which is about 25 minutes from the nearest park gate. These are the wildlife encounters we had during our four days…
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Self-driving Kruger National Park |Part One – witnessing the BIG 5
We woke just as the sun was rising and enjoyed a nice hot coffee while scanning the river banks with our binoculars for wildlife. The river marks the southern end of Kruger National Park and a short drive from us was the Crocodile Bridge Gate where we could enter the park. The national park is…
Arriving in South Africa and staying in our first game reserve
We’ve been putting Southern Africa off for many years due to safety issues and whenever I read the FCO government website it instantly puts me off as the crime is extremely violent. But we have to remember we’re not the first tourists to visit and we can’t let the scary stories put us off. So…
Swimming with sperm whales, humpbacks and dolphins in Mauritius
Update: It’s been brought to my attention that it’s illegal to swim with whales in Mauritius and is no longer allowed. I’ve dreamt of snorkelling with whales for a long time but after our plans of going to Tonga failed due to it still being closed to tourism we started researching other countries. I discovered…
Bears and mountain hikes in Kosovo
Kosovo is home to less than 100 bears and sadly some have been stolen from the wild and kept in tiny cages outside restaurants to entice guests in. The conditions were awful, the bears were fed bread and beer and were taunted by customers and staff through the cage. Luckily the Four Paws charity came…
A sky filled with vultures and a mystical cave | Spain
I’ve always pictured vultures to be the ones flying circles around me in a dry desert landscape when I’m severely dehydrated and on my last legs. Vultures just look like the bad guy, I can imagine gang members being reincarnated into them but my opinions soon changed when we visited Monfragüe National Park, home to…
Searching for wild wolves in Spain
Spain is one of the best places in Europe to witness wolves in the wild, in fact the Sierra la Culebra region in north west Spain has around 3000 wolves which is more than the US States of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho combined. The area has a 95km mountain chain which is more like rolling,…
Beach hopping, islands and dolphins | Galicia, Spain
We based ourselves near Illa de Arousa, an island connected to the mainland by a two kilometre bridge. It was built in the 80’s so before that inhabitants and visitors could only access the island by boat. We found a great little place to camp which was west facing so we had a fantastic view…
Searching for wild bears in Northern Spain
We’re always drawn to the mountains, it’s our favourite place to be and northern Spain is home to some spectacular ones. The only problem is it’s January and the temperature is preventing us from exploring some of these areas. We can handle the cold weather but Helga our campervan isn’t built for arctic conditions. She…
Giant waterfalls and the Northern Lights | Isle of Arran, Scotland
After spending some time hiking the cloudy mountains we changed tacks and did a bit of relaxing sighting around the Isle of Arran. We started in the south of the island at Kildonan where the houses all looked a bit nondescript but there was one fabulous building, it was a former free church built in…
NON STOP TRAVELLING 