{"id":3006,"date":"2015-12-09T18:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2015-12-21T06:55:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T04:55:53","slug":"wouter-and-tanyas-excellent-adventure-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=3006","title":{"rendered":"Wouter and Tanya’s Excellent Adventure, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

(I’m back-dating these posts. This will probably confuse both my readers, but it will make sense in the archives. I hope).<\/p>\n

So it was decided that we would take a trip to the Kruger National Park. At first we thought the kids would come with, but they got a better offer :-) and it ended up being just the two of us. Hey, the fewer the merrier.<\/p>\n

Two people can fit everything and a tent in a car, but I’d already decided to take the teardrop<\/a>, which still needed some more work<\/a>. But all’s well that ends well, so on Wednesday the 9th of December we headed north.<\/p>\n

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The mission:<\/span> Tanya wanted to see leopards and cheetahs. Preferably leopard and cheetah cubs. Playing with one another. In a tree. Oh and maybe some lions too. And I’d never seen wild dogs so that was on my list.<\/p>\n

Tall order, I know :-\/<\/p>\n

So being, well, me, I joined the sanparks forum<\/a> and started doing research. Turns out that the Lower Sabie \/ Skukuza \/ Pretoriuskop area is the place for cats, with Satara being good for lions. Or so they say. So I went online to book (the online booking is excellent. Possibly the best I’ve encountered anywhere). This was at the beginning of July, and places were already starting to fill up. I would have liked three nights at Lower Sabie, could only get two. At this stage we didn’t know whether the kids were coming with, so I booked the campsites for two people — you can change this when you arrive in camp, pay the difference.<\/p>\n

The itinerary:<\/span><\/p>\n