Hubers go Africa

A backpacker lodge in Swaziland. I enjoy these stations , because: With our arrival, the average age of the guests increases abruptly. In other words, the male part of our team immediately feels younger. The former communicator and active travel blogger suffering from the weak network in Africa can, together with backpackers (a subset of…

We left Kruger Park and drove westwards, into the Blyde River Canyon and into the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains with fantastic viewpoints. Often but not now.  Everything goes well up to the Three Rondavels and the Potholes, but then the fog breaks in. For two days we try to look through „God’s Window“, but what…

Sometimes you forget that Africa offers more than just the „Big Five“. Here in the Kruger alone there are 142 other species of mammals and over 500 bird species. Here is a selection randomly picked on a rainy evening (yes, here too you experience rain – and everyone is happy). Manchmal vergisst man, dass Afrikas Fauna mehr…

Unser erster Gedanke angesichts der aktuellen Nachrichten: Gut, dass wir nicht mehr dort sind.  Ich wünsche dem Land, dass es so ruhig bleibt, wie es jetzt noch zu sein scheint. Und ich wünsche den vielen netten Menschen, die wir kennenlernen durften, einfach eine gute Zukunft. Ansonsten halte ich mich angesichts der überraschenden Zahl von Zugriffen auf meinen…

The first impression in South Africa is dominated by the huge supply in a small-town supermarket. How many kinds of fruit and vegetables …. After Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique we arrived in a developed and prosperous country. And since we are already in the area because of our three workshop visits, we enter of course…

In Germany (a news junkie like me reads a newspaper even in the bush from time to time) everyone is talking about a Jamaica coalition. If there should be (the very unlikely) coalition of these political colors, I claim the copyright on Agamidae coalition. In Deutschland (ja, ab und zu liest ein Medien-Junkie wie ich…