Day 2
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So we did,
the hotel is being built from scratch. He is using a building method apparently used in the US. Bricks are not used. A metallic grid is used filled in between with some kind of isolation. The production cost is lower and the building itself is much more isolated compared to a brick built house. (so he says…)
Anyway after the visit we headed for “Twee Rivieren”: the entrance gate for the Kalahari national park (still a good 140 kilometers of dirt road ahead of us). The road on some places is really bad especially for a normal sedan. We lost one of our hubcaps… Hopefully we can buy a replacement on our way back to Jo’burg along the road. (Yes some guys resell old hubcaps on the side of the road here!)
Anyway after a few hours of driving we arrived at “Twee Rivieren”. We paid our entrance fee for the following 8 days (a mere R720, which is less than €80! In Kenya and Tanzania it’s about that per day!)
We then put up camp: 2 tents, chairs, bbq stuff and so on…The camping site is well equipped with showers, toilets, electricity, and light near the bbq helping you grill your meat.
It was now time for our first safari. We heard a leopard with 
a small cub sat close to the entrance. We drove off in that direction.
And YES, the first animal we spot is the leopard with her young cub under a ridge about 50 meters from the road.
Later that afternoon we also saw the usual: springbok, oryx ( called gemsbok in South Africa), gnoe’s (or wildebeest), hartebeest, jackal,…
Back at camp we started making dinner plans: hamburgers and potatoes on the bbq.
At night in the Kalahari it cools down a lot. (actually it freezes) During the day it warms up (in winter) to 30°C easily.
But freezing… in our little tents, this is going to be interesting…( to be continued I guess…)
It was now time for our first safari. We heard a leopard with a small cub sat close to the entrance. We drove off in that direction.
And YES, the first animal we spot is the leopard with her young cub under a ridge about 50 meters from the road.
Later that afternoon we also saw the usual: springbok, oryx ( called gemsbok in South Africa), gnoe’s (or wildebeest), hartebeest, jackal,…
Back at camp we started making dinner plans: hamburgers and potatoes on the bbq.
At night in the Kalahari it cools down a lot. (actually it freezes) During the day it warms up (in winter) to 30°C easily.
But freezing… in our little tents, this is going to be interesting…( to be continued I guess…)
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