From Berg to bush in March 2015 part one Golden Gate* NP
Posted: Sat May 09, 2015 2:39 pm
we went to KTP in September/October 2014 and have planned our next trip for November 2015. Due to fortunate circumstances we were able to book another trip to South Africa for March 2015. As this was an extra trip, we decided to neither visit KTP (would have been too late to book decent accomodation anyway) nor KNP but to go somewhere else. I wanted to do some birding as well while my SO prefers the four-legged animals (to put it nicely
).
It seemed to be a good idea to visit the Drakensberg, some reserves around Johannesburg and KZN. But what to do and where to stay? Consulting the internet, every place claims to be the best for birding. Finally we were cutting it down to 12 possible destinations.
Our problem was – we only had two weeks. Then I received a good advice to not book accomodation but to go and stay wherever we like it and that is what we decided to do. This turned out to be a good decision.
The plan was to pick up the car at the airport and to start the trip in Wakkerstroom, going South and returning via the Drakensberg. Little did we know that that plan was going to be changed enormously...

It seemed to be a good idea to visit the Drakensberg, some reserves around Johannesburg and KZN. But what to do and where to stay? Consulting the internet, every place claims to be the best for birding. Finally we were cutting it down to 12 possible destinations.
Our problem was – we only had two weeks. Then I received a good advice to not book accomodation but to go and stay wherever we like it and that is what we decided to do. This turned out to be a good decision.
The plan was to pick up the car at the airport and to start the trip in Wakkerstroom, going South and returning via the Drakensberg. Little did we know that that plan was going to be changed enormously...