Tag: Travel

United Arab Emirates, Desert Safari and Malls

ByMinion-Chris June 27, 2016 4 Comments
I woke up about an hour before landing in Abu Dhabi. Because my sleep had been pretty broken over the past 36 hours, I wasn’t feeling amazing, but I was feeling MUCH better with the worst of the food poisoning having passed. I’m a bit regretful because I was really looking forward to a long international Etihad flight prior to this trip. I’ve heard amazing things about all of the middle...

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...

Safari, Big 5 and Wild Dogs

ByMinion-Chris June 15, 2016 3 Comments
We were up bright (well the sun hadn’t come up yet) and early in anticipation of our first game drive. We had a quick breakfast and met Clayton who would be our guide for the day in the parking lot with his open air vehicle. There was room for 9 so our entire group was able to fit on one. Muscles, Gimpy and I chose the highest row in the back row.  Clayton was nice enough to stock each seat...

Travel to Kruger, Three Rondavels, Bourke’s Luck Potholes and God’s Window

ByMinion-Chris June 14, 2016 1 Comment
We started early again as we had a packed day en route to Kruger National Park where we would be doing the first of a few Safari Game Drives.  We piled into a new Quantum with Arthur and made our way out of Johannesburg.  It was a two hour drive before we made our first pit stop at a gas station. Maybe I’m just used to North American Gas stations, but this was one of the fanciest gas stations...

Wine Tour & Travel to Johannesburg

ByMinion-Chris June 13, 2016 0 Comments
Our group had booked a full day wine tour throughout the wine lands today. In total we would be visiting 5 wineries to taste with a stop for lunch. This would also be our last full day in Cape Town before flying to Johannesburg the next day to start our Safari adventure. We started our tour at Villera Wines Where we were able to sample: Traditional Brut NV Mono Brut 2008 Sauvignaun Blanc 2015...