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Group Tour-Eastern Coastal Plains to the Drakensberg

24/11/2015

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After finally finding our guests at the airport we headed to a guest house nearby for a good nights sleep. The next morning we embarked on our journey to Hluhluwe Imfolozi Game Reserve, making a few stops on the road to do some shopping, try local pineapples and gave our guest the opportunity to see the ever changing landscape and to see how the local people live in Zululand! 
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Enjoying pineapples on the highway
Arriving in Hluhluwe Imfolozi Game Reserve late afternoon we were greeted by small herds of Zebra, Impala and Kudu. In the distance we spotted some Rhino and an Elephant crossing the Black Imfolozi River. 
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What a view
In this park we had some amazing game viewing of Spotted Hyena coming up to our braai, White Rhino and a Black Rhino lying in a dry riverbed fifty meters from each other,  Cheetah lying at a vantage point scanning the Acacia Plains and Wild Dogs on an afternoon hunt! We also had a guided walk that took us through some open wilderness and down into the Black Imfolozi where we met a White Rhino that was very curious to find out what we were. 
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Hyena at the braai
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Black Rhino & White Rhino lying down in dry riverbed
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African Wild Dog
St. Lucia gave our guest a chance to rest their eyes from game spotting and to wonder around town, see the estuary with all its fauna and flora by boat and to explore the beach. They also had a guided safari into the iSimangaliso Wetland Park where they saw a couple of Rhino, Wildebeest, Bushbuck, Kudu and Red Duikers. The lunch spot was good and we were soon surrounded by a group of Banded Mongoose and Skye’s Monkeys waiting for a gap to steal something off our table!
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St. Lucia beach with Mapelane dune in the background
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Lunch in Cape Vidal
Our guests also visited Bayete Zulu Elephant Interaction and Emdoneni Cheetah Project where they met Rambo, Rachel and Jabulani and interacted with Rehabilitated Cheetahs, Serval and African Wild Cats!
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Rambo!
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Ria and Ruud with a Cheetah
Our next stop was Tembe Elephant Park! This is where we had the rare opportunity of watching a Lioness stalk and kill a Nyala. It was remarkable to see how patient and focused this large cat was to take down its prey, knowing she had three cubs to feed! Our guest also had great sightings of Elephants dust bathing, drinking, walking in the road and playing close to our vehicle.
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Drinks Stop!
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Ele dust bathing
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Lioness hunting
Kosi Bay was as always a treat, allowing our guest to discover the Kosi Lake System’s by boat, travelling through a tight channel from one lake to the other, appreciating the diversity in bird life, sheer beauty of Ancient Sand Dunes covered by thick Dune Forests and Thulani, our local guide giving great information about the traditional Tonga Fish Kraals.
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Kosi Bay Lake
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All smiles!
Although the devastating effects of the current drought that Mkuze Game Reserve is experiencing was evident, this Park once again surprised our guests with exceptional sightings of the Pel’s Fishing Owl at a very good viewing distance, Elephants drinking and bathing at arms length away from us in Kumasinga Hide and a Lion crossing the road to lie down and watch us watching him! Amazing photographic opportunity and great luck with exceptional timing!
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Kumasinga Hide
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Fig Forest walk
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Roel and Marja watching a lion
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Pel's Fishing Owl taking off
The lodge at Thendele Camp gave our guest a great view of the Amphitheatre and we did two walks along paths with an amazing landscape of mountains, green hills and forests. Although there wasn’t an abundance of water we walked to Gudu Falls through well shaded Afromontane Forests.
Didima Camp was our last stop. This is where our guest had some time to relax and did a hike into the mountains to Rainbow Gorge. 
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Amphitheatre walk
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Gudu Falls- pis straaltje
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Rainbow Gorge
With the tour wrapped up our guests were satisfied with the diversity in animal and plant life, differences in landscapes and the exceptional sightings they experienced! 
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Goodbye at the airport
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Reis van den Boogaard

2/11/2015

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Na veel goede ervaringen zijn we wederom met Safari´s Op Maat op reis gegaan. Dit jaar zijn we begonnen in Drakensbergen, daarna Ithala, Mkuze, St.Lucia, Hluhluwe en als afsluiter Kruger.
 
In Drakensbergen hebben we geweldige uitzichten gehad en genoten van een mooie wandeling.
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​Ook de overnachtingsplek was boven verwachting, net zoals in Ithala. In Ithala begonnen de gamedrives en….. de zoektocht naar de zwarte neushoorns. Nou, dit was een korte zoektocht want al op de eerste gamedrive zagen we een drietal zwarte neushoorns. Eindelijk na vele jaren !
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Na 2 nachten zijn we vertrokken naar Mkuze. Hier hebben we overnacht in tenten in een niet omheind park. Op een avond is er naast de tent een nyala geboren, erg bijzonder.
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De waterhole Kumasinga Hide was zeer bijzonder. We hebben er ontzettend veel zebra’s, gnoes, buffels, impala´s, nyala´s  en verschillende soorten vogels gezien. Verder nog een neushoorn met jong.
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Hierna een paar dagen rust in St. Lucia waar we overnacht hebben in een guesthouse. In St.Lucia hebben we vooral gewinkeld en genoten van de terrasjes. Cape Vidal zat natuurlijk ook in het programma, waar we een heerlijke sushi lunch hebben gehad.
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Na deze rustperiode zijn we verder gegaan naar Hluhluwe. Ook hier hebben we weer veel dieren en vogels gezien. De bezoekjes van de hyenas waren erg spannend !
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Voor wat luxe zijn we naar Ubizane Lodge gegaan voor een overnachting in een mooie boomhut. Hierna begon de reis naar Kruger via Piet Retief. In Kruger hebben we een aantal verschillende lokaties bezocht, Berg en Dal, Lower Sabie en toen naar Shindzela (Greater Kruger) en tot slot Tamboti tented camp. In Kruger hebben we prachtige sightings gehad; wederom de zwarte neushoorn, leeuwen, cheetahs, luipaarden, honingdas, veel vogels, wilde honden, olifanten, bavianen, verschillende soorten antilopen, nijlpaarden en nog veel meer.

Vooral shindzela was erg bijzonder omdat dit een privepark is waar je off road mag. Hierdoor konden we erg dicht bij de wilde dieren komen.
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​Na 3 weken kwam er helaas weer een einde aan een geweldige reis! Het was allemaal weer goed georganiseerd, vervoer, de lodges, de catering, de gidsen, alles!
 
Safari´s Op Maat, Paul en Geert, bedankt voor weer een geweldige ervaring en tot een volgende keer!
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