It was about an hours drive from the sanctuary to the game lodge with Gavin, my driver. he was a rather large man but really nice and extremely knowledgable! I particularly enjoyed his stories about his pet squirrel!! En route we passed over the Oliphant river and Gavin told me about the recent floods they'd had due to the high volume of rain in January, he was telling me about the roads and bridges that were now being rebuilt.. I would see the effects it had on...

Well I've written this once but my computer is keen on crashing as soon as I try to publish anything!! Basically I've back-dated it because I couldn't be bothered to re-write it at the time! So, my last few days at the monkey sanctuary.. I'd actually settled in a lot better during my last week, still kicked the toilet for 5 minutes before going, mainly because the Mosquitos had moved in too (lots of bites on my bum it's safe to say!!) I'd starting tanning ins...

Okay, this is going to be a more cheery post because its currently my day off and I'm lying on a sun lounger next to a pool with a banana milkshake at the 4 star lodge down the road!! :D I'm having a little look at the menu considering what meat and cheese based food I'm going to have before going back to Vegan-ville.... I'm writing this today to update you of my plans.. Having stuck the Monkey sanctuary longer than I thought I realised that I was going to leav...

Sorry about the delay with the blogging, not that it's been that long actually! just feels like I've been here months already!! That sort of gives you a hint at my thoughts on this place.. But more of that in a bit. So, at my meeting on monday at the hostel I found out I was he only person out of the group of 10 that was going to my project... I didn't really mind but it was quite revealing when the woman went round the group saying about the facilities at each...

Well, here I am in Pretoria which is about 45 minutes North of Johannesburg. The Flight Well, because they'd cancelled the later flight to Johannesburg and ours was delayed for so long they combined the two flights so the plane was packed and it meant that a lot of people who'd booked anything higher than economy class were downgraded, let's just say there were a lot of angry businessmen at the boarding gate.. On boarding the plane you had to walk through ...