Collette Floral Wonders 2014

Well hi there all, its great to be back on the road with all the ups and downs it starts.

On Sat 1 Feb 2014 the group arrived in staggered arrivals, Sunday morning we have breakfast and a quick welcome briefing.
And we are of, well talking to the step on guide he suggests to start with the Joberg Botanical Gardens, I tried to get hold of them since the Friday but no answer, as the entrance was all ready sorted I thought sure, so we get there and at 10am the lady answers her phone and said no 2pm, any way she was there in 20 min and we walked through a very disappointing garden.
Then we left for the Walter Sisulu National Botanical gardens, also ending up with a bit of issues at the gate, but anyway we got in and wow a really nice place, similar in a way to Kirstenbosch  but they have a really pretty water fall and the Black Eagles nesting there.
from there we wen to lunch in Soweto at just after 2pm, then did a Soweto tour and back to the hotel.

The welcome dinner went well and all went to bed early.

Monday morning we had a whopper of a thunder storm and a lot of rain, at 9:30am I had arranged a private garden visit, at the St Christopher gardens ( www.stchristophergardens.co.za ) have a look wow wow wow , a really lovely place and so I made up my brownie points again, from there we went to Pretoria and saw the Union Buildings gardens then we stopped for a quick lunch and made a dash for Kruger park. we got to Nelspruit and I asked the driver if he knows the way he said sure, when I turned around to look again we were on a gravel road heading towards Kruger and the back of the Numbi Township, how we ended up back on the Numbi Road I still don't know but any way 7:10pm we arrived at the Paul Kruger Protea hotel.
We all went to are rooms waited for luggage then straight to dinner then to bed as 5:00am wake up for Safari.


5:30 am and we are in the park, first we come across a massive Bull elephant, around the next corner 16 lions, Wow about 30min later 2 white rhino then another 4 lions wow this is turning out to be a great day. We stopped for breakfast and then we were of again and we find 2 Ground hornbills  around the bend a black rhino, then about 6 wild dogs lying down a few minuets later 5 more dogs then 8 more dogs then 4 more lions and two making out, then we find 2 Sable antelope wow its of the chart on what a day we had, we got the impalas and the kudu, giraffe, zebra, hippos buffalo, lots of birds, crocs etc

By the time 4pom came and arrived at the hotel the guests were very happy and so was I what a great day in the bush. For a one day safari they got about a weeks worth of animals.

Today we drove back to Joberg and caught the plane to PE where tomorrow we head down to Knysna.

I have added some new photos from this trip and removed some old ones I hope you are pleased with these.