Week 3: Guatemala

We've never missed a flight before, had to run accross an airport to catch a flight or not had our bags at the end of the journey.  Tick!  The flight from cape town was very delayed, missed our flight from Heathrow and had less than an hour to get through imigration and accross Miami airport.  No wonder when we arrived at Guatemala we only had our hand luggage and smelt like we hadn't washed in weeks.  It's lucky we had our sleeping bags and mosquito net and not a lot else!  The bags turned up today thank god!!!

We are off to the animal centre tomorrow a day behind, but the B&B here is really nice, so not all bad.

Week 2: Cape Town Continued.....

We hired a car for the day and Will drove us (as if we were on a track) to Cape Point, Boulders Bay etc. We saw Baboons, Penguins, Ostriches, Wales and lots of lovely views.  We managed eventually to get to Table Mountain! When we got up there the winds were so strong we had ten minutes before we had to queue to come back down again as the cable car was closing! The views were amazing though. A Fantastic last day in South Africa.

Week Two: Cape Town

Arrived in Cape Town after being awake for 20 hours! Will did very well picking the Guest House. Nine flowers is right near Table Mountain and very close to long street and the water front.

All very expensive here to be honest, so spent far to much money already.

Table Mountain has had a table cloth on it all week, so have not had a chance to go up yet. We only have Friday and Saturday left, so hopefully the weather will clear up in time.

We have been to Robben Island. This was very rushed, but we managed to see Nelson Mandela's very small cell and Robert Sobukwe's small hut that he was confined to by himself for 6 years, he was not even allowed to talk to the four guards that were standing outside!

SHARKS!!! We finally did our shark diving! it was fantastic! I managed to get into my wet suit, although luckily no photo's!! We saw about 7 sharks. The biggest one being 4 metres long. Will took all the photos, as it was very difficult holding on with one hand under water. The sea was a little rough, so only 3 people were sick on the boat! All a bit expensive, so no dvd, but worth every penny.

We are hiring a car tomorrow to drive down to Cape Point and to run over some baboon's.

Off to Guatemala on Saturday. Really not looking forward to the flights and quite anxious about the experience. We have heard from our 'buddy' who went out there on the 1st Sept (Mia) she has advised us to bring clothes that we don't mind throwing away and lots and lots of mozy spray! We shall let you all know when we can how we are getting on.

Oh, and Will bought himself a new hat! He looks very American.

It's the whale festival, look who's in town...

Cape Town has a whale festival over the next week or so.  Look who turned up!!!

Week 1:

We have just finished our first week in Kruger Park. We met a lovely couple at the Ritz who were also booked into the same tour as us (Lorrie and Janet). If it was not for them, we would not be in Cape Town now as we would have missed our flight thanks to a cock up with Real Gap (thanks guys x). The Semi-luxury tents turned out to be a 3 star lodge with private shower and flowers on the bed! Fantastic surprise.

Up at 5am every morning, so you can imagine the state we were in everyday. Luckily our tour guide Dion (we called him Celine) was fantastic fun. The 4 of us had the biggest laugh with so many inappropriate jokes! All we need to say is 2 litres, see photos and guess which one that refers to!!!

The highlight of our trip in Kruger was witnessing a herd of about 300 buffalo coming down to the watering hole where there was also 2 elephants, a hippo (who by now was very grumpy), several giraffe, zebra and warthogs. We also saw lions, hyenas, rhino's and loads and loads of impala (250,000 in the park).

After 20 hours of being awake on Saturday, we finally made it to Cape Town and are now having a relaxing Sunday before we attempt the Shark Diving, Table Mountain and wine tours, hopefully with some Whale and Penguin Watching in between.

All packed!

All packed and ready to go! Will has most my stuff in his back pack and I have about 1 weeks worth of shampoo, so after about one month the pictures will be very interesting!

We are looking forward to our beer and breakfast in Heathrow tomorrow, so after months of talking about travelling, we are finally leaving you all in peace. Jo x