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Cape Town Road Trip, Karoo NP January 2021
Karoo National Park - January 2021
ROAD TRIP ON THE DIAGONAL - PHASE 2 - MOKALA TO THE KAROO NATIONAL PARK
Bidding a fond farewell to Mokala, we headed down the N12 via Hopetown, Britstown and Victoria West to join the N1 at Drie Susters (Three Sisters), crossing into the Western Cape at that very spot. Since our home stomping-grounds boasts the Three Rondawels as part of the Blydepoort escarpment, we had to stop and take a photo of their three Karoo-cousins. We were in the Great Karoo, a much beloved area of South Africa.
Cape Town Road Trip, Mokala NP January 2021
Limpopo to Mokala National Park - January 2021
ROAD TRIP ON THE DIAGONAL - PHASE 1 - LIMPOPO, GAUTENG AND NORTHERN CAPE
COVID-19 hit us in 2020 and hit hard, it did. Picture the scene, three trips booked for 2020 ….. Marakele National Park, Kruger National Park, Namibia ….. but the virus said NEIN! STAY AT HOME! Which we did, stoically.
Luckily, we had only booked camping and accommodation in the South African National Parks by the time COVID-19 gave us the “nein”, so it all went into their credit system, taunting us from afar.
We started seeing light at the end of the tunnel at the start of December 2020, so we rolled out the map and opened the SANParks website. So much to see! Diaries were consulted and an end of January, beginning of February 2021 gap in Lecturing Twit’s calendar was found. We proceeded to plan a doozy of a trip from Hoedspruit to Cape Town and back, trying to fit in visits to as many nature reserves/national parks as possible, the emphasis being on new experiences. We begged room from friends, activated our credits and threw in two stays at CapeNature reserves, leaving us with a bill of around R800.00 and still some credit in the pot. The diesel bill will have to take care of itself (yeah, right!). We were ready, set to go!
Richtersveld National Park, September 2019
19 August 2019
An unexpected visit from a friend from far away resulted in an opportunity to remove a green pin from our travel board. A green pin on the board indicates where we still want to make landfall and plant the Two Travelling Twits flag.
Jenny, a friend and ex-colleague from Stellenbosch popped in for a visit in March 2019, bringing with her the news of a planned group trip to the Richtersveld in September 2019. A throwaway remark contained an invitation for the Twits to join the jaunt. This invitation was leapt upon with alacrity, without any consideration of possible impediments in the way of such a trip – for us, from east to west right across the northern part of South Africa.
