Hello fellow travelers! It's been about two months since I came back from Gaborone, Botswana. I wasn't sure of where I should start by telling my travels (I have so many stories!), but I thought I should start off with my first weekend with my relatives.
So my extended family consists of my four cousins, and my aunt and uncle. For my family, its just the four of us, my mum, dad, and brother. My oldest cousin is twenty two (she wasn't able to make it because of her university), the second is nineteen, the other one is thirteen (like me), and the youngest is my bestie the eight year old, while my brother is just a year younger than me, so eleven.
In total, there were nine of us, so we had to go in two separate cars for it to not be jam packed in one. It was a three hour car ride, so we obviously spent time talking, and looking outside because of such beautiful scenery; there were hills and thick bush everywhere, it seriously looked like someone had built a road between a vast valley.
We took a pit stop to get a few things we forgot, as well as chowing down on Chicken Licken, which is where you can get fried chicken, that is LITERALLY the BEST fried chicken I have ever, ever, ever, had. I don't tend to like fried food, but with Chicken Licken, you don't feel guilty whatsoever; it's not as oily as most fast food chains in Canada, or what you might get in the US.
Carrying on two more hours, we finally made our destination to our resort called Kingdom Resort, which had some really cool accommodations, like a trampoline (that was like, the first thing my cousins and I went onto), pool, playground, and snack bar.
So, Sun City is like a attraction park, connected with Lost City, quote, "From the lavish opulence of The Palace of the Lost City to the casual elegance of the Cascades, the glamour of the annual Nedbank Golf Challenge to the tropical thrills of the Valley of the Waves."
That same night we didn't go to Sun City, but went to the Pilanesberg National Park, and the Madikwe Game Reserve, where tons and tons of animals are left to roam freely; this to me was the best part, way better than any zoos, since the animals were not kept in cages. We saw elephants, (drove right past them!), impala (a type of deer), wildebeest, a hippo, and surprisingly rhinos! I was so happy to see them, especially babies, they were the cutest things!
So my extended family consists of my four cousins, and my aunt and uncle. For my family, its just the four of us, my mum, dad, and brother. My oldest cousin is twenty two (she wasn't able to make it because of her university), the second is nineteen, the other one is thirteen (like me), and the youngest is my bestie the eight year old, while my brother is just a year younger than me, so eleven.
In total, there were nine of us, so we had to go in two separate cars for it to not be jam packed in one. It was a three hour car ride, so we obviously spent time talking, and looking outside because of such beautiful scenery; there were hills and thick bush everywhere, it seriously looked like someone had built a road between a vast valley.
We took a pit stop to get a few things we forgot, as well as chowing down on Chicken Licken, which is where you can get fried chicken, that is LITERALLY the BEST fried chicken I have ever, ever, ever, had. I don't tend to like fried food, but with Chicken Licken, you don't feel guilty whatsoever; it's not as oily as most fast food chains in Canada, or what you might get in the US.
Carrying on two more hours, we finally made our destination to our resort called Kingdom Resort, which had some really cool accommodations, like a trampoline (that was like, the first thing my cousins and I went onto), pool, playground, and snack bar.
So, Sun City is like a attraction park, connected with Lost City, quote, "From the lavish opulence of The Palace of the Lost City to the casual elegance of the Cascades, the glamour of the annual Nedbank Golf Challenge to the tropical thrills of the Valley of the Waves."
That same night we didn't go to Sun City, but went to the Pilanesberg National Park, and the Madikwe Game Reserve, where tons and tons of animals are left to roam freely; this to me was the best part, way better than any zoos, since the animals were not kept in cages. We saw elephants, (drove right past them!), impala (a type of deer), wildebeest, a hippo, and surprisingly rhinos! I was so happy to see them, especially babies, they were the cutest things!