Panorama Screen showing Rock Lodge BBQ area

View the Ulusaba 360º  Panorama

Creating this post made me realise that it's been almost four months since I returned from Africa!  It's been a busy time and I've been doing my consulting work, building a book based on the African Adventure blog and planning the next great adventure (more details coming soon). Ulusaba was such a special part of the trip to Africa and I wish I could go back there tomorrow. Working on the panorama tour only made that desire more compelling.

More pictures to follow...

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Ulusaba to Johannesburg

Well it's the last 5am wake up call, the last safari trip and as if to say it's time to go the wind is whipping around the Rock Lodge, it's much cooler than the previous days and the sky is covered with dark grey clouds. This morning we take extra clothes as it is not going to be a warm drive.

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Ulusaba - Day 4

5am comes around far too quickly, especially when you have been out in the bush partying with the locals. Even so I jump out of bed and headed out to the balcony to see the sunrise, imagine my surprise when I see the veld completely covered in fog, it was quite breathtaking and totally unexpected. I couldn’t even see Safari Lodge.

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Ulusaba - Tony's 60th Birthday

5am and that damn wake up call, especially painful this morning as I've now reached the ripe old age of 60 years, but this is Ulusaba and there is no sleeping in! So up and dressed Kelly and I headed for the bar to meet up with Johan and the rest of our crew and what a cruel bunch they, are no sympathy for old folk. After a bit of digging how they would tow me behind in a wheel chair and the fact that they had an additional ranger joining us so two of them could lift me into the vehicle I climbed aboard, unaided, and we set off.

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