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Hey guys.

Just wanna ask a quick question.

My parents came to visit me in Johannesburg and they wanna go to a game reserve near Johannesburg for the day on Sunday.

Does anyone know of any good places near here ?

Thanks.

Hi Mohsin

There's a few nice options, depending on how far they're prepared to travel. There's Suikerbosrand to the south east of Jo'burg, which is mainly grassland habitat, and has good birding and they'll see stuff like zebra, black wildebeest, eland, springbok, blesbok etc. To the north Dinokeng Game Reserve is quite good and has some beautiful bushveld, and also has Elephants and some Lions. Or if they're willing to travel about 2-2.5 hours there's always Pilanesberg which has the big 5 and everything.

Moshin, I would say - Rietvlei. It is closer than PTA to Joburg. Eland, blesbok, zebra and other antelope. Brilliant birding! And a chance of the rarities of coarse

Thanks guys.

My dad likes the sound of Dinokeng.

Are there day visitors facilities there ?

What about Rietvlei ?

Yup. Rietvlei have lovely a lovely picnic site and restaurant 30-40mins drive from Jozi

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Rietvlei has 1 cheetah, rhino, buff and is close to jhb and quite nice for a day trip. you can also book tours into the lion camps

Afternoon v's How is everyone doing?

Wecome to the v's flossy I hope you'll be a regular here

Hey cheets. Welcome back! Can't wait to hear all about the brownie bunch antics

I went to jozi/pretoors for a couple of days We visited the national botanical gardens in roodepoort and the austin bird sanctuary in pretoria and it was amazing !!!!! Saw my first paradise flycatcher and grey crowned crane and a variety of other birds!!! It was awesome!!!

Hope everyone's having a good weekend!! I'm heading for the seaside tomorrow so I might be scarce, but pop in I will Have an awesome weekend!!

The ' ' mr green has become your smiley for the day Beepsy
Meanwhile, back at the lodge, it is us who should be
coz you going to see the sea Enjoy it man If you take a couple of pics and share it here that would also be super cool of you

I'm at work this weekend. Serves me right for going to Kruger ne?

Hi Vs hope you've all had a good weekend so far!!

I'm not going to be on the forum for a while because I'm off to Thailand tomorrow
Going to be a good mix of chilling, partying and good bird watching (both kinds )
So excited!!

Hey Vee's

Thought I would check in today, its been a rough couple days, left work on thursday feeling very sick, went to the doc on friday thought it was a tummy bug but wanted me to go for a malaria test if i got a high fever again, so saturday went for the test which was negative but on saturday evening I was not improving, went to the hospital on sunday for more tests and another malaria test thankfully negative again but I do have a kidney infection and a bacterial infection in the blood, but I can say that I am on the mend and its Kruger on Sat so I have to get better

Aggenee Spargs

Get better soon man! Stop drinking beer!!

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enjoy Thailand Matt

Hey I am off the beers cause of antibiotics but they will be done soon and many a beer will be drunk in KNP