We flew up to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, and crossed the Zambesi River into Zambia to reach the Waterberry Zambesi River Lodge, where we booked in to stay. It took almost two hours to reach the camp, where we slept in semi-permanent tents, because we needed to cross the border between the nations. The only bridge here, within sight of the falls, was built in England and brought in pieces to be assembled…
Inyati means water buffalo in the local language. Curious for the name of the camp we chose to stay at since that was the one of the Big Five animals (lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and water buffalo) we saw the least of during our stay. The camp is adjacent to the 6-million-acre Kruger National Park in the privately owned thirty-thousand-acre Sabi Sand Game Reserve. A number of camps are located in this…
Babylonstoren, a three-hundred-year-old farm, first established to grow fruit and vegetables for the Dutch Spice Traders, was purchased in 2007 from a Dutch family that had owned it for over 160 years by a South African billionaire, by the name of Koos Bekker. He and his wife invested hundreds of millions to make it a modern, self sufficient farm and tourist attraction. What brings people here from Cape Town and all over…
We just returned from a South African adventure that was over a year in the making. On a trip to Machu Pichu, we met a couple who raved about a recent trip there. While the long flight had always been a discouragement, we discovered tickets for business class on Turkish Air that were a third of the price of our usual US carrier. We talked to some friends who had flown it…
Our son and his girlfriend chartered a catamaran in Tortola and invited us along. The bedroom was a bit cozy and the toilets, which cannot accept toilet paper, reminded us we were ‘roughing it’. But a boat in the Caribbean? How rough a week is that? We started our visit in White Bay on Jost Van Dyke Island at the Soggy Dollar bar, which sells colorful t-shirts and serves a famous rum…