Merry Christmas month, my faithful readers! Tis the season
to wear jumpers, drink eggnog and buy three kilos of icing sugar at a time.
I’ve done two of these things, but I have yet to find eggnog. Anyways, I’m in South Africa!
I’m still in culture shock. There’s a mall… with clothes… and grocery stores…
and fro-yo. We’re in a marina, which is also weird. The mall was super busy the
last time we went, cause for some reason they have Black Friday sales even
though they don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. It was really over-whelming, so it
kind of put me off going for a while. We’re having a great time meeting new
friends and exploring this amazing country. Recently, we rented a car and went
on a three day safari, which was brilliant. There were rhinos, giraffes, elephants,
zebras and heaps of different birds and animals. Unfortunately, there’s a very
severe drought going on which has been on for three years. This means that most
of the water in the park that we went to has dried up. They’ve actually had to
start trucking in water for the animals. In the estuary where we went to see
hippos and crocodiles, we saw flamingos at the mouth, which our guide explained
meant that the water was incredibly low, because normally they only stand
farther up the estuary where the water is shallow. Also, the estuary is now
classed as a lake because it no longer connects to the ocean. Despite the
drought, our safari was absolutely fantastic. Merry Christmas again, and I hope
you’re all doing well, and eating gingerbread and frantically buying wrapping
paper as the end of this year approaches. It’s gone so quickly, and I hope all
of you had a great one, and enjoyed hearing a little bit about my travels. This
year, I crossed the Indian Ocean and made it to South Africa, and I’m pretty proud
of that. Happy holidays everyone.
