Getting up 3.30 at the Kruger-Park
Nov 21st, 2008 by bjoern
Together with my colleague Martin and Christian from Port Elizabeth we started our research-tour trough South Africa, Mozambique and Swaziland for interviews with ministries, agencies and donors. The first step brought us to Johannesburg and introduced us to our new small white GOLF I, which serves us perfectly. Afterwards we entered the Kruger-Park, which has the size of whole Belgium and managed to get in latest possible – the guys already wanted to close the gates, while we arrive one minute earlier. But the thoughest part was getting up at 3.30 o’clock for the morning walk in the rain – even all animals stayed in their homes, so we did not saw anything but afterwards we had the whole day for a game-drive in the park and saw elephants, girafs, springbocks and almost lions.
Afterwards we arrived at the water-commission for the Limpopo-river (LIMCOM) in Phalaborwa, where South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe met to jointly agree on their water-management. The meeting was organized by GTZ and was very interesting and I could arrange several interviews on the ground. Additionally we might went up in some days to Tanzania… but as Africa is a bit easy-going while organising we still do not know for sure – flights would go on Sunday so Friday is still too early. :)
