Breakfast at 7:30am so that we could hit the road as early as possible to start making our long way home. It is about 1400 kms from The Cavern back home. The route back is fairly straightforward as it is all pretty much on national roads which tend to be well maintained. We had 600 kms to cover today and our navigation system said it would be just under 6 hours. We hit the road just...

We had breakfast at 8am. On walking back to our rooms after breakfast, S got lifer number 400! The hotel has various organised activities during the day. B, S & A went on an organised walk and H & I decided to do our own walk rather so we could bird. If you elect to do your own thing then you need to inform reception so that they can send out a search and rescue party...

We packed up and headed toward the Drakensberg at around 8am. We chose not to drive back south to Durban and then west (all on national roads) and rather went with the cross KZN option. What we didn't realise when selecting the route that the first bit of the route would be on gravel (around about 60kms). The first bit of the gravel road was fine but it did deteriorate later. We all felt for O...

The runners (barring O due to her back issue) decided to run down (down being the operative word) to the beach this am and then I had to go and pick them up so they didn't have to run up again. When I found them near the end of the road, there was a lot of complaining how the 'down' run was actually not down at all and that there was lots of up. Also complaining...

Another night, another battle with a bat. This time it started much earlier (11pm ish). H had already put the mosquito net down around her bed to keep the bat away and so now it used her net to hang on when it decided to stop its laps around the room. We left the light on in the hope it would go away and once again it did. But then I was getting buzzed my mosquitoes...

Our (being H & I) first night was somewhat interrupted around 2am when a bat decided to do laps in our bedroom. It liked getting particularly close to H for some reason. I'm not a bat catcher so the only alternative was to turn the light on and hope it wouldn't like that and go away (from wherever it came). It was a good strategy but that did mean that the rest of the night we...

The ladies and A went for a run around the camp in the morning before we left and B & I watched the rugby. I probably haven't done Hilltop Camp and accommodation full justice in that the facilities were very nice. As you can from the fact that we managed to watch rugby, the house we were staying in had satellite TV even. It also came with a chef (which we didn't use) and had it's...

We didn't change camps today so we decided to have an early morning drive for a few hours and stop and have coffee and then head back for breakfast/brunch. Sunrise is around 6:30am so we headed out then first on the tar road and then onto gravel roads to get to the picnic spot. We didn't see many animals or birds except we saw two rhino again and it looked like they were sleeping (or at...

We were up at around 6am yesterday as Siya was taking us on a bush walk. After signing the indemnity form (never a good sign just before you encounter wild animals while walking), Siya gave us a safety briefing, told us what to do and more importantly what not to do. He loaded his rifle and then we headed off in single file along and down to the river. The plan was for around a 2-hour...

The crazy people didn't learn from the previous mornings lesson and decided to go for a run again at 7am before we hit the road. It was 2 degrees C when they ventured out. Once they got back and we packed up and hit the road. Our first stop was Howick to go to supermarket to get food for next 5 nights as we were heading to a Game Park which we knew didn't have food...