While we were sitting in the hide at water hole  in the morning of 22th September, there a ranger who was there on his free time. Luckily Maud started to chat with this guy. He told that he was there just to see if the lions would approach and have a drink.Tthe previous morning they […]

From Ithala we headed to uMkhuze game park, which is located in the Northern part of Zululand. The last 20 km’s of the road leading to the park was, well, in not that great condition, and because of more or less missing road signs, we are a bit concerned if we’re on the right road, […]

Our next destination was Ithala game reserve. Much smaller in size, but very beautiful landscapes and mountains are very characterises to this park. No Big5 park, but elands, black and white rhinos and elephants. Here Maud had booked us a own camp!  http://www.kznwildlife.com/mhlangeni-bush-camp.html which is located in the far end  of the park’s main entrance and […]

The first destination for being in the bush was Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park. This park is one of the oldest in Africa, and it is located near town of Mtubatuba. It covered around 96 000 ha and is a big5 park. After the main gate we drove about 3.5 minutes and we saw the first small traffic […]

We had booked the flights a year in advance. We had a few different options and routing alternatives, but soon we noticed that the airline we will be flight with is definitely British Airways. Because their pretty generous hand baggage allowance (which allows 2 bags and larger may be 23 kg’s if in normal cabin […]

We arrived in Johannesburg on time around 7AM. All in all the it was quite quick to leave to plane, through passport control, grab the luggage and rental car. I stopped by to local Vodacom shop to collect my African SIM card which I had ordered online, to keep contact with Sari at home. It was […]

12.9.2015:I will be heading to South Africa for almost 3 weeks, with our special Dutch friends, Hans & Maud. If somehow possible, I will try to update also my blog here at www.jukka.me, but you can follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/JukkaZA . You dont need to have a Twitter account yourself, its all open […]