Today we flew from Makanyi Lodge in Kruger National Park, South Africa, back to Johannesburg for one night before Taking a flight to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. This meant we had to fly backwards and spend a night next to the airport in a giant hotel and casino complex called The Imperial Palace. There were other People at Makanyi that flew direct from Kruger to Victoria Falls, which was a lot faster, took only one flight instead of two and would have meant we co...

After a gruelling 21 hour flight, we finally landed in Cape Town. We spent 3 days in the funky waterfront district and toured around the wine region, table mountain and the cape of good hope. We saw ostriches, baboons and a bontebok, which is a type of antelope. We then took a domestic flight top Kruger National Park where we were taken to a private game lodge called Makanyi. It took 1.5 hours to get to the lodge, mostly because we stopped so many times alopng...

Day 1 Our driver, Puran, picked us up from the hotel in Delhi at 8:00. It is supposed to be a 5 hour drive to Ludhiana and we started well, missing the morning traffic coming out of Delhi. As we were leaving, Lidia said to me "Do you think we should give the driver the address in Ludhiana?" I said no, because surely the tour company had given him the address. Turns out….they hadn't. We arrived in Ludhiana in good time at 1:00 and the driver turned to us...

Day 1 Our driver, Puran, picked us up from the hotel in Delhi at 8:00. It is supposed to be a 5 hour drive to Ludhiana and we started well, missing the morning traffic coming out of Delhi. As we were leaving, Lidia said to me "Do you think we should give the driver the address in Ludhiana?" I said no, because surely the tour company had given him the address. Turns out….they hadn't. We arrived in Ludhiana in good time at 1:00 and the driver turned to us...

After 24 hours with no sleep, we finally got to bed in Delhi. We are staying at the Imperial Hotel, which is an old English-style hotel. Beautiful place with 7 acres of garden. We hit the ground running the next morning with a full day private tour of old and New Delhi. Our guide, "Him", took us to Jama Masjid, which is the largest mosque in Delhi, then Gandhi's cremation site, the red fort, India Gate and Humayun's tomb. Our favourite part of the day was walki...