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MG Car Club of South Australia

PRESIDENTS REPORT From .. Allan Semmler

November 2016 not really practical in the back of a Land aelene & I are back after a really
Rover . I took about

R great holiday in Africa , what a 5500 photos about fantastic place to spend a month of half with a 24-120 mm lens and half your life . We spent time in Zambia , with an 80-400 mm lens

Kenya , Botswana and South Africa . Our pick for the best accommodation
This was our second trip to the African continent , our time was divided would be Sabi Sabi in the Kruger National Park there are three camps in between five game reserves throughout the country , each camp is different
Sabi Sabi , Bush Camp , Earth Lodge and Little Bush Camp , our favourite is with the range of wildlife and terrain Little Bush Camp . changing dramatically . Accommodation is generally in “ ten star tents ” with
If you get the chance to visit Kenya a stop for one night at the Giraffe Manor a maximum of ten guests , two per tent in Nairobi is a must , nothing like a at any time . Leave your hair dryer
Giraffe sticking his head in your second story window at breakfast time to home ( not enough electricity to run such luxuries and the animals are not take food out of your hand or mouth if concerned if your hair is a little you are game . messy ). Wi-Fi and mobile phone reception is non-existent in a lot of ar-
There are only three problems with Africa , 1 . You tend to lose interest in
eas . Luggage is limited to soft-sided ever visiting a Zoo again . 2 . We did bags and a max . of 8 kg ’ s per person not see any MG ’ s probably because as most camps are reached by small we spent very little time in any large
6-8 seater planes , consequently luggage space is limited . cities . ( There is a fantastic collection of over 300 classic cars including a
Probably our pick of places for game few MG ’ s at the Franschhoek Private viewing and photography was the Motor Museum not far out of Cape
Massi Mara in Kenya where literally Town that we visited four years ago ). thousands of animals including the big 3 . Johannesburg has got to be one of five can be sighted particularly during the worst airports in the world , three the migration season ( September and 747 ’ s arriving within minutes of each
October ) A tip for the photographers other unloading about 1000 people all out there , don ’ t bother taking any trying to get through the immigration / thing bigger than a 300 or 400mm customs area that has about 30 lens for two reasons , you get very booths but only 4 or 5 in operation . close to the wildlife and most game
The camps we stayed at were in different countries so we had to endure drives are cross country and the roads that do exist are pretty rough about 1-1½ hours in the line each tracks which make it almost impossible to handle anything bigger , Tripods time we moved camp . are not allowed and Monopods are 6