Today, we met with our Zulu guide Thulani at the Rorkes Drift Museum. For the 1st 2 hours, he gave us the background leading to the war between the British and the Zulu. Then we drove to Isandlwana to the museum there where we learned about how the battle developed The Zulu use a battle plan called "Horns of the Buffalo" The centre is called the head, the body, and the loins and on either side are the horns of the Buffalo which are composed of those warriors who ...

Woke up pretty early today. I thought it was 7:30am but it turned out to be 6:30am. We went for breakfast and the restaurant server looked at me with a "what the heck do you want " look. I checked my watch and discovered the restaurant wasn't even open yet. So we cooled our heels for 15 minutes. After breakfast, we packed up and headed for the park gates. I could buy gas at the gate so we filled up and then headed for Rorkes Drift. We drove the N3 again which is ...

One of the reasons for coming to Giants Castle was to see the cave paintings done by the San people about 5000 years ago. After breakfast, we started our hike to the caves. The weather has turned hot again and we were both very warm. We eventually got into the forest where it was a little cooler. The caves were really just indentations caused by outcroppings of rock. The tour was very interesting. Some of the paintings were quite clear but many are fading due to ...

We were somewhat reluctant to leave Champagne Castle this morning. The place was quite luxurious. It was almost like we had been transported back to Africa of the 20's. They announced dinner time by someone going around sounding chimes. All the meals were buffet style but my goodness, what a choice! For dinner last night, we roast beef and Yorkshire pudding and of course so many different kinds of dessert. After we vacated our room, we went down the road to a pla...

Breakfast at 8:30am is probably the latest we have had breakfast since arriving in South Africa. Our hosts, Chris and Meg are very gracious. Chris is a certified guide and will be guiding some people at Giants Castle at the same time we are there tomorrow and the next day. We had quite an interesting discussion the night before as his father was in Tobruk during WW2 so he was in North Africa at the same time as my dad. We started our journey to the resort we are ...