On our last evening before heading out of the park to start to make our way to our safari destination, we got a pleasant surprise. Our luggage had arrived! It was at the park’s main gate. Perfect, we’ll pick it up on route to our next accommodation in Hazyview along the Panorama Route. Unfortunately, only one of two bags arrived. The good news was this was the bag with most of my hunting clothes. With one bag in tow we carried onto to Hazyview.
We drove a good piece of the Panorama Route and stopped in at the “Potholes”, “Gods Window”, “The Pinnacle” and “Mac Mac Falls”, all amazing scenic wonders.
This is where I got a souveigner that I could have done without. I got caught by a photo radar crew and got a speeding ticket. They wrote my ticket and escorted us to the local Police dept to pay “in cash” the equivalent of $59.50. The next day we headed back to Krueger International Airport to catch a flight to Johannesburg then on to Port Elizabeth to meet our PH and go onto the Safari Lodge. While in Johannesburg, we made a second baggage claim as we were still out one bag. The guys in Baggage Claim vowed to make it their mission to find our other bag. We arrived in Port Elizabeth and met our PH, Eardley, who drove us to the Safari lodge to begin the next leg of our adventure.