We spent today in Addo Elephant Park, a small national park just north of Port Elizabeth. We had a wonderful day self driving around the park which is well mapped out with signs, some of the roads tarred, other dirt. We picked up a guide this morning for $20 who drove with us for two hours and told us a lot about the park, its origins and its inhabitants. When the park was proclaimed, there were only 11 elephants left after the majority had been killed. There a...

When I left off last, we were waiting for our dinner in Hermanus and boy was it worth the wait. There was way too much food but really lovely dinner - chicken, salad, garlic bread & potatoes all for about $10. We sat outside around the fire and chatted with a few of the others staying there. Everyone was of the same opinion about South Africa - no one has given themselves enough time to see everything they want to see. Anyway, Sunday morning we got up early ...

We've had a wonderful day of whale watching here in Hermanus. It's only a shame we can't stay longer because it is a beautiful spot. Yesterday morning, after checking out the city centre of Stellenbosch we drove to a few different wineries that mum had chosen who supposedly had the sweet wines she liked. Some did, some didn't but she managed to find a couple she liked enough to buy. She's going to have fun drinking them before we get on a plane!! It did drizzle w...

We've had a jam packed past couple of days, out and about finally getting to see some of Cape Town and its surrounds. We bought a 2 day pass for the bright red double decker sightseeing city bus. In all my travels around the world, I've only ever done this bus once before, in Madrid. We headed out early the first day to jump on the express bus up to Table Mountain where we got the cable car to the top. Needless to say, it is quite high up and in the actual cable ...

We have now been in Cape Town for 3 days and spent 1.5 of those days in bed!! Our bodies decided that on the first day we had nothing planned, they would fail us and we should do nothing but stay in bed, so reluctantly we did (I still think it was our bodies way of not getting fed for a while since it seems we have been eating 3 course meals for every meal for the past 3 weeks). We were collected from our hotel in Livingstone and taken to the airport. We couldn'...