Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Halfway Round the World - Blog 10


South Africa in Review


I’ve discovered the problem with blogging while we travel.  I start with the best intentions of keeping friends and family up to date on the sights and insights of travel, and as the trip progresses, and the pace continues,  I get further and further behind.  First there’s the issue of internet access, which is always iffy and in this trip’s destination countries of Southern and Eastern Africa downright hard to come by.  Then there’s the issue of writing the darn thing.  With only one computer between us, it becomes a bit of a wrangle over who has the rights to the computer.  Usually I just give it up and play a few rounds of backgammon on my cell phone turned game boy since our plans to get SIM cards for the cell phones fell flat on its face when they didn’t work in South Africa.  Then I fall asleep from a combination of sensory overload and malaria meds as Larry keeps right on journaling into the night.


So here I am at the end of the second safari – The Best of Kenya and Tanzania and I haven’t yet blogged the first one.  I guess I’ll just plod along, and finish my blogs sometime after we get home. But I hope I’ll have then shared a bit of this wonderful odyssey and our insights into the countries we’ve visited.
 Before I continue, however, I want to share some of our favorite pictures of South Africa…. They might not have made it into the blog before because I tried to choose one photo for a topic, but they are still worthy of sharing.
See you all on the other side….

oops! Not all the pics uploaded.  Here's installment one.  More hopefully when we get to Istanbul ...


Washing clothes, a grocery store in Soweto and Queen of the Shebeen drinking local beer.

Early Cave Drawings

Early resistance to White Colonization

Voortrekker Pioneer Memorial
Each cairn represents an English soldier
who died at Islandwana
One of the many B and B's we visited -





White Rhino at St. Lucia
Wildlife at St. Lucia Estuary



Sani Pass

Children in Lesotho
Lesothan Woman



Blood River Memorial
Voortrekker Historical Sites

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