South Africa: moving to Madikwe
We enjoyed talking to our pilot over dinner, but we didn’t actually get to fly with him the next day – there were some low clouds in the area and his plane wasn’t IFR-equipped. Too bad, because we’d been looking forward to flying in a small plane from the local airstrip. We did get to see his plane, though, and so did the local animals. Instead, we were driven to the Kruger Mpumalanga airport, about 3 hours away. From there we flew to Johannesberg, then transferred to a Cessna Caravan to fly out to Madikwe. We arrived just as another storm was beginning – thunderstorms turn back on our game drives that evening and the next afternoon, so I’ve combined the photos from February 14 and 15. The indoor photos are of the main lodge and of our bathrooms – the baths in our rooms at all three of our lodges were nicer than in any house I’ve lived in!
Note: All photos copyright 2010 by Ted and Paula. All of the photos in this slideshow have been posted as taken, with no photo-editing except to resize them appropriately for this page.