What a trip it’s been!

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Happy New Year to all our friends here at de Wets Wild! We hope that 2018 has lots of opportunities to explore the outdoors, for you as well as for us!

We have just arrived back home safely after another epic summer holiday in South Africa’s wild places. All in all we were away from home for 24 nights and traveled a total of 5,550km, exploring eight of this beautiful country’s National Parks.

The route for our epic December 2017 holidays

Of course we came back with literally thousands of photos, which we’ll be sharing here in the coming weeks. We tried to post a daily update as we went along – here’s a quick recap.

Wide open spaces surround the Karoo National Park’s accommodation units
Camping in Karoo National Park, December 2017
Wide open spaces in the Karoo
Gemsbok in the Karoo
Eland Cottage, Table Mountain NP, December 2017
8 Years old: December 2017. Sunset over the Atlantic
De Wets at the Cape of Good Hope
Cape of Good Hope
African Penguin at Boulders Beach
Chalet 11 at Agulhas National Park, December 2017
Southern Tip of Africa
Southern Tip of Africa
Bontebok
Campsite 8, Lang Elsie’s Kraal Rest Camp, Bontebok National Park, December 2017
Lang Elsies Kraal
View from Ebb-and-Flow North Campsite
Camping at Ebb-and-Flow Rest Camp in the Garden Route National Park, December 2017
Diepwalle Forest, Garden Route National Park
Swartvlei Beach
Serpentine River
Rondevlei in Garden Route National Park, seen from the hide
Ebb-and-Flow North Camp seen from the Half-collared Kingfisher Trail
Rowing on the Touw River at Ebb-and-Flow
Storms River Mouth scenery
Camping site 50i at Storms River Mouth Camp in Garden Route National Park, December 2017
Deadly battle between a Southern Boubou and a Boomslang
Tsitsikamma Sunset
Camping at Addo Elephant National Park, December 2017
Big and small at Addo
Baby Elephant Naptime at Addo
Seymore Butts
Camping at Mountain Zebra National Park, December 2017
The Star Attraction at Mountain Zebra National Park
Ostriches mating at Mountain Zebra National Park
Caracal at Mountain Zebra National Park
Camping at Camdeboo National Park, December 2017
Camdeboo’s Valley of Desolation

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      1. Six Seasons Trails's avatariAMsafari

        Thanks so much! Need to find the time to share some of my adventures. Re planning, we’re still contemplating where to go exactly – all options are open, but it’s probably not going to be the Kruger this time.

  14. Teresa's avatarLadybuggz

    Wholly! That’s a pretty long trip! We’d have to travel up and down our Island 12 times! or my house to Montreal, Quebec! Bet you were glad to get into your own beds when you got home?!

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    1. DeWetsWild's avatarde Wets Wild Post author

      Luckily we did it in small chunks, so we never got tired of the drive, Teresa. And it was with some pretty mixed feelings that we arrived back home. I don’t think we’re really made for city life…

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