Mission accomplished
Dear Friends.
Let me start with wishing you all thé most wonderful New Year! I hope you all find happiness, health, success and lots of the most beautiful pictures you can imagine in 2008!
Yesterday we've returned from our vacation in South Africa. Of course it always feels this way when you have all the wonderful memories fresh in your head, but this certainly has been a top 3 vacation! Maybe even the best we've ever had.
We've started off with renting a Landrover and drove from Johannesburg to Kruger. Spent the first days in Kruger, then went off to Mala Mala Game Reserve, followed by Sabi Sands Game Reserve, and afterwards returning to Kruger National Park. We've been around a bit in our lives but all above National Parks made a deep impression as far as wildlife conservation, management and discipline are concerned. To all of them: chapeau!
My deepest wish for this holiday was to find the notorious leopard. Through various sources I had heared that South Africa and particularly Mala Mala Game Reserve and Sabi Sands where the places to be for this truly beautiful, but ever so shy and rarely seen cat. (searched èvery tree in Kenya, Tanzanya and Botswana for it; found them but on the pictures they where those tiny spotted dots.. "Yeah.. it's a Leopard, It is! Honestly! :-) ") Now, after returning on Dutch soil, I can only say that all of these sources have been right and more than that. We've seen no less than 11 of these wonderful creatures during our 2 weeks vacation (including travelling days).
I wish you all could feel what I felt when looking in those piercing eyes who seemed to look right through me. Truly breathtaking! According to our ranger Andre and tracker Morris of the Arathusa Lodge in Sabi Sands; The name of this leopard is "White Cloth".
Warmest regards especially to all the African, American, British, Canadian, Colombian, Swiss and Dutch people we met during the last 2 weeks; thank you all for your wonderful company! It made the vacation extra special!!
Mission accomplished
Dear Friends.
Let me start with wishing you all thé most wonderful New Year! I hope you all find happiness, health, success and lots of the most beautiful pictures you can imagine in 2008!
Yesterday we've returned from our vacation in South Africa. Of course it always feels this way when you have all the wonderful memories fresh in your head, but this certainly has been a top 3 vacation! Maybe even the best we've ever had.
We've started off with renting a Landrover and drove from Johannesburg to Kruger. Spent the first days in Kruger, then went off to Mala Mala Game Reserve, followed by Sabi Sands Game Reserve, and afterwards returning to Kruger National Park. We've been around a bit in our lives but all above National Parks made a deep impression as far as wildlife conservation, management and discipline are concerned. To all of them: chapeau!
My deepest wish for this holiday was to find the notorious leopard. Through various sources I had heared that South Africa and particularly Mala Mala Game Reserve and Sabi Sands where the places to be for this truly beautiful, but ever so shy and rarely seen cat. (searched èvery tree in Kenya, Tanzanya and Botswana for it; found them but on the pictures they where those tiny spotted dots.. "Yeah.. it's a Leopard, It is! Honestly! :-) ") Now, after returning on Dutch soil, I can only say that all of these sources have been right and more than that. We've seen no less than 11 of these wonderful creatures during our 2 weeks vacation (including travelling days).
I wish you all could feel what I felt when looking in those piercing eyes who seemed to look right through me. Truly breathtaking! According to our ranger Andre and tracker Morris of the Arathusa Lodge in Sabi Sands; The name of this leopard is "White Cloth".
Warmest regards especially to all the African, American, British, Canadian, Colombian, Swiss and Dutch people we met during the last 2 weeks; thank you all for your wonderful company! It made the vacation extra special!!