Greetings from Tzaneen

Well we finally made it here, although the journey was not without it's hitches!! Flights were lovely (good old Emirates) we could watch any film starting at any time, pause it and it was super.

Mitsy met us at the airport and we spent a lovely night in a 4* hotel - in the morning we took the shuttle to the bus terminal at the airport only to find our bus didn't go from there it leaves from Park City Station in central Jo'burg and the next bus didn't leave until the following morning. After some hasty phone calls we spent a very relaxig day at Zelda's house followed by pizza, movies and a lovely cosy bed!

20 years ago central Jo'burg was the place to be seen, very smart, beautiful and expensive. Now you only go there if you have a death wish - or a bus to catch - so we drove there, doors locked, handbags out of sight and very much wary of everything. The station at Jo'burg must have been a beautiful place once, but the buildings now stand unloved and worse for wear, very sad.

The bus journey was interesting - driver didn't show so we had to wait for a replacement, then the windscreen wipers stopped working, then one drunken passenger was arrested so we had to wait for the police to come and sort him out. But we did get to watch Top Gun and Home Alone so it's not all bad and we were met by Vicky and Liz who brought us to the Vervet Monkey Foundation which is now our home for the next 3 weeks.

More about our monkey friends in the morrow - sun rises at 5 which means so do we - good old tent village!

Rx