Well it’s been a long time since my last travel bug and I just love being on the road again. As you can see the picture shows me at the airport in Edinburgh leaving for Johannesburg in South Africa. It was really cold and wet when I left Scotland and I felt so much warmer when I landed in the heat of South Africa – you see it’s Winter here but it is still really warm. My soft fleece looks great and I am very relaxed already, although the farm is great, I feel I am suited to warmer weather!
I went to a theme park in South Africa – I never really thought about it but I didn’t expect Roller Coasters in Africa.
After a few days of sight seeing and relaxing, I took a bus to Botswana. It is a smaller country and there is a famous writer in Scotland called Alexander McCall Smith who writes all about it in his books – “The Number One Detective Agency” – maybe your mum or dad has read it?
The bus was really funny and took 13 hours! (We stopped to go to the toilet and so I could nibble on some grass!) As you can see by the photo I met two lovely ladies on the bus who were going to a wedding. They are part of a tribe who are connected to cows and their hats are supposed to look like cow horns! They were very fond of me!
Botswana is very mixed – lots of desert (the Kalahari) and long plains with lots of wildlife. Not unlike the Lion King really. As it’s Winter and very dry, the migrating animals are looking for water and they can often be seen by watering holes. I have only watched from the car as it’s quite dangerous – predators hang about there waiting for the animals!
After Botswana, I carried on my journey to Namibia. It was owned by South Africa until 1990 – just before I was born! It has lots of sand dunes (in fact the biggest one in the world is there!). The trip on the bus this time took only 8 hours and was really interesting as we drove across the Kalahari Highway. There are not many roads and they can be a bit rough but you see some great sights. At one stage we had lots of Ostriches on the road – they kept running in the middle of the road and are very fast. The lady next to me told me they are really dangerous as they attack with their claw – but only if they are really upset!
As we saw so many deserts I wondered what the people do for jobs as I didn’t see many farms. Apparently lots of people live in cities. Not really cities like I know (and I have been around – not just Edinburgh or London but also Perth and Christchurch). When I get to Namibia I going to try and visit a home to see how people live and what they do for jobs………………..
PS I was not too sure about the snacks that were supplied on the bus trip. What do you think?
