This is just a quickie TT from a weekend trip up to Imfolozi in March this year.
I hit the big 50 this year and the Cow was hassling me about what I wanted and I said “A weekend in the bush for everybody”, but never expected it.
On my birthday I received an envelope from the Cow and got a major shock when opening it because it was a 2 night stay at Gqoyeni, which is a private unfenced bush camp in Imfolozi game reserve. Within minutes the surprise turned into concern.
“How did you pay for this!”
Gqoyeni has been on my wish list for many years, but it’s pricey, so I parked it for “when we hit the lotto” and actually never thought that we would ever go. My brother in-law had flown over from Australia in December to spend 2 weeks with us and he had left the Cow with money for this trip which I wasn’t aware of. Our failing rand is a bonus for those with other currencies at 1 Australian dollar to more than R12, so that took some of the initial stress away.
Gqoyeni bush camp is next to the Black Imfolozi river just before the turnoff to Sontuli loop and has 4 x 2 sleeper chalets interconnected via a walkway to a communal lounge/kitchen area, all unfenced. 2 units face the small Gqoyeni river, which is mostly dry in the winter months, and 2 units face the Black Imfolozi river. There is a live-in manager/guide on site who can take you on bush walks by arrangement if you want, a kitchen assistant that can help with self-catering meals if you provide the food and another assistant to clean the chalets.
Electricity is provided via a generator that one can normally switch on and off via a control panel in each unit, but that was faulty on this trip, so electricity was provided at certain times in the morning and evening as agreed with the manager on site, because he had to manually start/stop the generator.
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