South Africa: Leopard welcome
We landed in Johannesburg. Back to this land is becoming a happy routine insurmountable. Always a smile, a novelty, a nuance: life and travel. South Africa has given me much more than I give, guess that's why I argue that the path is born here in August that will take us to visit some southern countries of this continent. Our passion for this land, if we can transmit, is the best endorsement of this project. I feel more passion (should be understood emotional and personal) by which it nowhere. The phrase could be extended to all Africa, but here is my epicenter.
We arrived in Johannesburg Daniel Landa and a server with the desire of those who feel that it takes too long in debt to the maps. There we waited Ana Paula and Victor, Portuguese friends with whom I came across by chance in Vilanculos (Mozambique) and I run out of positive adjectives. His honesty and generosity becomes obscene. A crazed group of four friends who share a plan that we all seem perfect: have April 1×4 and lots of miles to do without long-range plans. Search for hotels, spaces and, the most important, sensations to return here in August with you.
Graskop. We spent the first night in this small town famous for its art shops, work with silk and pancakes.
We start from the great city of concrete and cardboard towards Graskop. We spent the first night in this small town famous for its art shops, work with silk and pancakes. A good start of this route in the charming village to catch up on our dreams dinner and taking a glass of wine (The Pinotage is part of my taste like ham and Iberian. Yes, Comparisons are odious).
The next morning we set off to Blyde River Canyon. Victor advised me long to visit this place that I had spent my first visits to the Kruger Park but that the rush to meet the animals always made me look at him from the car sideways. (How much travel pale in places by appointment pending with the most renowned stages). We toured their illustrious corners, guided by the couple Lusa has come to this park over 15 times, and we were shocked. Maybe because we did not expect anything or maybe because there are wild waterfalls, rivers that come together in pools that look like marble overlooking a canyon that twists from above and from below seem insurmountable. The Pinnacle, God´s Window, Berlyn Falls, Rondavels o los Potholes, those who had never paid attention, have become a destination for recommending to friends. Bad, yes, is that we recommend because there are many and range of the African souvenir waiting at the entrance of all places. (always takes a bit of grace that you say in your face that you are the 254.689 David Livingstone who passes by).
There are wild waterfalls, rivers that come together in pools that look like marble overlooking a canyon that twists from above and from below seem insurmountable
Then we returned the car and showed his teeth South Africa, his conviction. A traffic control board camera and playing a cop to save the world and has no qualms about openly say when asked the notification of the fine that "this is a personal negotiation between you and me". He had to choose between filing a fight that we may not linger much to let us enter the Kruger or dealing with a bastard to pay a fine on other silly tourists. At the end negotiate, pay and you despair for much that is a story repeated in these places. Most of Africa is dying of hunger corruption (is my opinion).
Finally we reached the gate of Kruger in injury time. The rains of January and February have a new place in my eyes that has nothing to do with what I saw in the past. It's great national parks to understand that change depending on the time of year that visit and, especially, of luck. The eternal ago because there's always a new waiting Kruger. . What happened in the morning safari rarely happens. The park is an immensity of wilderness, full of animals and watercolor cards. Everything is there and the people are the ones who decide whether or not shown.
And 2010 it took eight months and eight countries with many parks to see her back on a leopard, That morning I saw two
How to summarize what happened? It was an orgy animal can be approximated. We saw the big five in one day. And 2010 it took eight months and eight countries with many parks to see her back on a leopard, That morning I saw two. Dani was set at an impossible tail hanging from a branch and there was the cat with a baby zebra to hunt and he had just hung on the tree (now become pantry). We also saw three immense herds of buffalo (one of them crossed in front of our car); three rhinos, multitude of elephants, loss of a baby hyena and five lions we knew where they were by a Spanish car that passed us and that an Englishman of the earth began to explain how to get the lions were sleeping near a baobab. It was brutal, adrenaline and finding once again that animal life in Africa occasionally comes to visit when, where and how you want. The return to this continent has given me back some emotions somewhat dormant. We are going to Mozambique.
This post is part of the route South Africa, Mozambique and Malawi in August we organize Viajesalpasado. If you are interested in receiving information write an email and I will give vap@viajesalpasado.com. We are currently designing the trip.
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Ann
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Here in Madrid, the rest of VaP. seem too big a 5. Most of all by how we have grown teeth and the way in which anyone despellejaríamos, like a leopard to be in South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi, or terminal 4 with you.
Enjoy, contádnoslo well and prepare the best possible route to get back with you very soon.
(the term envy here pales compared to what we feel. Seize.. grrr)
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