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Sabi Sabi - Selati Camp

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Every holiday must come to an end, and this is our last stop for our African Safari. But our travel agent, Belinda from Travel Insights, has kept the best till last. Selati camp is a luxury private camp within the Sabi Sabi Reserve bordering on the Kreuger National Park.  There are no fences between Sabi Sabi Reserve and Kreuger, but the big difference is the number of tourists that roam the space - its a lot less traffic here. Here's a pic of Ruth taking lunch overlooking the camp's waterhole to give you a sense of what I'm talking about: You can see some elephants at the waterhole - there was a reasonably constant stream of animals of various makes, visiting us. For instance, here's a herd of zebra visiting for a quick drink. The program here was similar to that at Kanga Camp (Mana Pools) that I described in my first blog posts - wake up at 5:30am for a 6am start.  Here's a pic from the truck at sunrise. Rather cool each morning, but we start w...

Cape Town

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I suppose every international tourist needs to spend some time in at least one big city. So our time has come - a few days in Cape Town. We did it tough, staying at the Table Bay Hotel, following Barack Obama's lead. It's right in the heart of the waterfront: Here's the view from our bedroom window: That's Cape Town's iconic Table Mountain you can see.  Here's a better view: We took a cable car up to the top of Table Mountain... great views of Cape Town from up there: It was quite relaxing walking around the top of Table Mountain, although a little dangerous if you wanted to take some good pics: There was a lot of poverty on display around Cape Town.  There are a number of shanty towns which look overcrowded and quite sad - Dr Google says there are 150,000 people living in these corrugated iron townships, but I'm guessing this is a wild under-estimation. Yet they spent about R4bn (about A$400m) building this soccer stadium: G...