Comments on: South Africa 16 — A Braai in a Boma and a Private Dinner by the Pool

By: cheetah girl

cheetah girl — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 13:09:31 +0000

Had embarked on what will be a long love affair with Africa, and I think I will go broke =)

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 17:52:23 +0000

MM, agree with you completely on the experience. My family dreams of Okovango and Namibia.

By: Betchay

Betchay — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:23:12 +0000

Fine dining in the middle of the jungle!!! Awesome!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 05:49:57 +0000

Ed, if I am not mistaken “Bone Crusher” is a reference to a hyena that crunches down on even the skulls of prey… And when you witness the feeding, you literally hear the crunch of the bones!! :)

By: Khew

Khew — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 05:35:35 +0000

Boursain balls…hmmm…that sounds scrumptious.

By: Ed B.

Ed B. — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:26:33 +0000

Awesome name for a beer! :D

By: Thel from Florida

Thel from Florida — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:21:58 +0000

Very impressive dishes and vivid pictures. Also, learned two words today: boma and braai–appreciate all your posts very much.
We have travelled to a dozen European countries and enjoyed it tremendously. We went full time RVing (2006-2009) to whole of mainland USA and eastern Canada.
I am satisfied watching “Planet Earth” and never thought of going on a safari. After reading your great trip, I am considering going (funds already available for 4 people) but right now I am the caregiver to my 90 year old mother who is on the early stage of dementia. So I guess I have to wait as I will never entrust my beloved mom to any other caregiver.

By: Connie C

Connie C — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:21:41 +0000

After all , South Africa is a very rich country with well developed infrastructure and services. I might add that the cruel policies of apartheid was a big setback for the blacks and “coloreds” but thankfully things are changing. It was a big surprise albeit a pleasant one to see Soweto now with beautiful homes compared to the slum it was before as we saw on TV when it was a hotbed for the revolution when the South Africans were fighting for social change.

By: Footloose

Footloose — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:55:58 +0000

Nothing as enjoyable as first-hand adventure narrated by knowledgeable people you actually know and trust. Or literature as immediate as that written against oppression by truly vile villains. Up to just recently, I only knew South Africa through its great writers: Alan Payton, Nadine Gordimer, Mary Renault, J. M. Coetzee, etc.

@Connie C, You are right in that seafood may be logistically easier to transport from the Mozambique coast to the Kruger reserves although elsewhere, South Africa itself has a very long coastline that is rich fishing ground to all sorts of marine life including humans. The pelagic panorama of the annual sardine feeding frenzy is perhaps matched only in its awesomeness by the thundering great wildebeest migration in the Serengeti plane.

By: Connie C

Connie C — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:54:57 +0000

I felt the same too , MM. But considering that Maputo, Mozambique’s capital and one of Africa’s most fashionable and cosmopolitan cities in its heyday is in the coast and just an hour drive away from KNP and those planes and helicopters that ferry guests like you keep the supplies coming and make fine dining possible in the middle of the “bush”. It just feels strange because one feels so remote being in the wild.