greetings all,
Well I’m in south africa right now.
After a very very exhausting journey and 25 hours later I’m finally back in SA after 9 years.  I first had to take the high speed train from brussels to Paris. after 90 mins I arrived at Charle de Gaulle where I had to get the bad news [...]

It’s 18:30 now. We’re in “Van Zylsrus” near a campfire waiting for the flames to dim so we can put our steaks on the grill. I’m starving!!!
Van Zylsrus… Can I call it a town? No I guess not. It’s about 200 kilometers from the nearest form of civilization, a few houses along a dirt road [...]

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 [...]

The game drive was good. The colors in the morning are stunning and as usual, a lot of game activity. The mammals all find a ray of sunshine to warm themselves up after the cold night.
One of the more special things we saw this morning was an African wild cat. These cats (along with many [...]

Its 13:30 now, some people left this morning so we “migrated” to a better spot. It’s amazing here close to a waterhole for mammals. The ground is full of holes. There are squirrels everywhere. It’s amazing.
People laughed when they saw us move out tents without disassembling them first. One camper came and asked us if [...]

Since we took a lot of pictures of squirrels here at camp, we decided to stay with small rodents.
So we took some pictures of whistling rats and some mice.
Back at the camping site, we prepared yet another fine meal.
We had a lot of fun during the evening. Everyone was sound asleep but we continued talking [...]

The road is beautiful, going through the vast desert dunes: up and down, left and right. As expected, we didn’t see a lot of mammals: some birds and a few lonesome Oryx’s.
It’s much too warm here.
When I speak of dunes, I should point out that here dunes are still covered with little brushes of grass. [...]

We took off at 7 to start our spotting with:
- What you can call the remains of an ostrich
- A rare (not so rare here but in Kenya, Tanzania you don’t see them that often) brown Hyena. Sadly too far away for taking pictures
- A mating couple of lions
- Huge herds of springbok & wildebeest.
I’m writing all of this [...]

We woke up early again to pack everything. Today we had a long trip ahead of us: from Nossob back to Twee Rivieren. The camp we stayed the first night. This will be our last night as well. Tomorrow we are heading back to Jo’burg. We are still considering doing the trip in 1 go [...]

We packed and exited the park through the same gate we came in. First a final 30-40 kilometers of dirt road and then tarred road for the remainder of the trip.
I did the first driving of the day. Since we had a lot of kilometers to do, I punched the accelerator pedal: about 80-90 km/h [...]