Tag: South Africa

Continental Minion! Checking all the Continents off the bucket list

ByMinion-Chris April 30, 2017 1 Comment
Visiting all Seven Continents With the completion of my recent trip to Australia, not only did I check Australia off the "visit list", but also hitting all seven continents from my bucket list as well. For as long as I can remember, stepping foot on all seven continents had always been at the top of my bucket list. And for the past several years, there was a focused effort to make that dream a...

Wrapping up our Africa trip and GALLERIES!!

ByMinion-Chris July 23, 2016 0 Comments
This will be my last post about our travels in Africa. Firstly off, I want to thank you for following me on this journey through Africa.  While it was often a "chore" to write about what we did each day, I have truly enjoyed documenting my travels in this way and am hoping to do more of this in the future! I have also updated every post with a gallery of photos so for those into pictures,...

Reflecting on Africa – Muscles!

ByMinion-Chris July 18, 2016 0 Comments
Last week, Gimpy gave us her thoughts on our African Adventure. This week Muscles gives us his reflections on this trip! 1. What were your top 3 highlights of the trip? Highlight #1: The pyramids!  Seeing them in person, posing in front of them, touching them, climbing them, entering them, and marvelling at the magnitude of how they were all constructed by hand. Highlight #2: Seeing the beauty...

Reflecting on Africa – Gimpy!

ByMinion-Chris July 9, 2016 1 Comment
Now that we've had a little over a week to to settle back at home, I thought it would be great to give my travelling companions an opportunity to share some of their thoughts on this great adventure we've been on. I sent them a list of  questions for them to talk about and so without further adieu here' Gimpy's take on this amazing trip! Gimpy will be the first so give us her take on this...

One last drive, Return to Soeki’s, Travel to Emirates

ByMinion-Chris June 18, 2016 0 Comments
We woke up early again for one last morning drive to find the elusive male lion.  We were close yesterday and our luck throughout to find what we were looking for or something rare has been good so we were confident. We set out early in the morning again into the African winter, Matthews and Raymond circled an area known to be the male lions territory looking for tracks. We spent about a half...

Game Drives & Cheetah!

ByMinion-Chris June 16, 2016 0 Comments
Today we had two game drives on the schedule. One in the morning and one for the late afternoon. We were up early again, downed a quick cup of coffee and hopped on our vehicle again for another early morning drive. Unfortunately it wasn't as eventful as our previous drives so we spent a lot talking amongst ourselves and I got to know one of our travelling professors quite well! The drive wasn't...