Luxury living in Sanbonani.

Camping is great and the bush is great and living in a house with all your facilities under one roof and where it is warm is also great. Everything has its time and everything is appreciated for what it is. We arrived on Friday afternoon at Sanbonani in the Hazyview area. We booked through our Timeshare and we are in a 2 bedroom chalet with everything that opens and shuts, as well as a housekeeping service that means that we don’t even have to make the bed or do any washing up!

The chalets are on the banks of the Sabie river and it is beautifully situated. There are Hippos in the river and you hear them regularly and there are warning signs everywhere to remind city dwellers that hippos are around. On our way here on Friday we travelled through the Kruger Park from Malelane gate to Phaleni gate, which is a stone’s throw from Sanbonani. We were so lucky on that tripppie as we saw a Leopard, which is really a rare sighting. Dick has a photo to as proof. We were very chuffed. When we arrived here we unpacked all our stuff and settled in our home for the next week and we went for dinner at the restaurant on the estate on Friday evening. A break is a break and that included a night off from braaiing or cooking.

For the 3 full days that we have been here we have done washing and shopped and breakfasted and explored and went to Misty Mountain Inn for a G&T and had a pancake lunch in Graskop. Pancakes and pancake restaurants are very popular in this part of the world so we came on board and had pancakes as well. This is now not the ordinary “church fete “pancakes, no, these are designer pancakes.  I had a Chicken liver and cream pepper sauce pancake and Dick had Dutch bacon and cheese. Needless to say this had to be washed down with a glass of wine. Wow, what a Sunday lunch!!!

Just tha way Kruger look

Today we spent the best part of the day in the Kruger Park just travelling through some of the southern parts. We saw lots of animals and 5 birds which we have not seen at all on the holiday, as well as 3 Bateleurs, which we had seen before, however here they were sitting like in your face. We are keeping a “Holiday spotters list” and we mark every new bird off as we go along. So today we added the Ground Hornbill, an African Grey Hornbill, a Parrot, a Yellow billed Kite and a Coqui something. I haven’t got the book here now to confirm names. It is a lovely time to be in Kruger, as the grass is relatively low, although the Indigenous forest areas are still very green and lovely, especially along the Sabie river area in the park.

Groud hornbills strutting their stuff. A little like young attorneys!!

Impala at sunset

My Bateleur!!!