Posts Tagged "africa"
Day 5
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. Dunes here are not completely naked. The trip took us a few hours to complete. Arriving at...
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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 at our campfire with the necessary brandy & coffee.
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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 we hadn’t seen a shoe. A jackal took it during the night. So we...
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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 others) are especially active at night. It’s rare seeing any. We made breakfast (eggs and bacon) and packed...
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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...
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