We couldn’t think of a better way to see out 2014 than by scaling the Brandwag Buttress in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park
The Brandwag Buttress
View of the Golden Gate Hotel & Chalets and the road to the small town of Clarens from the top of Brandwag this misty morning
Looking back at the fantastic places we stayed at while exploring South Africa’s wild places in 2014…
We’ve exchanged the hot and humid coastal plains of Kwazulu-Natal for the crisp mountain air of the Golden Gate Highlands National Park in the Eastern Free State, for the final leg of our epic summer holidays.
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We’ll be spending only the one day at Midmar Dam Nature Reserve on this trip. But that’s not because the Natal Midlands area is not exceedingly beautiful!
There, now we are all caught up with our daily trip updates – please page back for the delayed updates from Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park.
We spent a considerable amount of time on our last full day at Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park stuck behind wide and heavy loads… The Park’s elephant population is obviously booming!
What an awesome experience, witnessing one of Hluhluwe-Imfolozi’s wild dog packs hunt and kill! We’ll share more photos in an upcoming post.
We were astounded by the prolific tree-climbing skills of Imfolozi’s lions, and how well such big cats can camouflage themselves in the tops of even rather small trees.
The sunrise over Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park on Christmas morning was particularly beautiful 😀
We hope all our friends here at de Wets Wild had a lovely Christmas Day.
Today we moved “camp” again, to Mpila in the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park, our country’s oldest reserve and one of our firm favourites. This little white rhinoceros seemed particularly pleased that Christmas eve has finally arrived!
We also would like to wish all our friends here at de Wets Wild a blessed and merry Christmas!
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