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		<title>Selati Lodge of the Sabi Sabi Game Reserve looks lovelier than ever. And about my nice memories of my first peri peri chicken lunch here.</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Wow, nothing&#8217;s changed,&#8221; I said to Grant,&#160;the manager of Selati Lodge, on the Sabi Sabi Game Reserve, when we arrived, in Africa, living a #Travelife. It was mid-afternoon when we finally reached Selati, and most of the guests were already on game drives because we were heading into winter and the days were shorter. That&#8217;s Grant, manager of Selati Lodge Yes, Selati was exactly as I remembered it.&#160; This is the intimate nostalgia lodge of Sabi Sabi, themed upon &#8220;Yesterday,&#8221; [&#8230;]</p>
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&#8220;Wow, nothing&#8217;s changed,&#8221; I said to Grant,&nbsp;<b>the manager of Selati Lodge, on the Sabi Sabi Game Reserve</b>, when we arrived, <b>in Africa, <a href="http://www.travelife.biz/">living a #Travelife</a></b>.</p>
<p>It was mid-afternoon <b>when we finally reached Selati</b>, and most of the guests were already on game drives because <b>we were heading into winter and the days were shorter.</b></p>
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<p>Yes,<b> Selati was exactly as I remembered it.&nbsp;</b></p>
<p><b>This is the intimate nostalgia lodge of Sabi Sabi,</b> themed upon &#8220;Yesterday,&#8221; and it&#8217;s done so beautifully in the vintage style.</p>
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<b>A ROOM STRAIGHT OUT OF AFRICA</b></div>
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<b>I stayed in Ivory Lodge</b>, which is the best suite in the lodge, if not in the entire Sabi Sabi Game Reserve, and <b>it&#8217;s a room straight &#8220;Out of Africa</b>.&#8221;</p>
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Happily, it was exactly as I remembered it, with its palatial bathroom and <b>its ever so picturesque bedroom with a pool that hippos occasionally visited</b> on one side and a private terrace on the other.</p>
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<p>I have so many happy memories of my first stay here over two years ago, so <b>it was nice to be back again.</b><br />
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<b>SOME THINGS ARE NOT THE SAME</b></div>
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When I got to the lounge area for tea, however, I was nicely surprised to see that <b>Selati did undergo some major renovations of its common areas </b>&#8212; and I&#8217;m happy to report that everything is for the better.</p>
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They&#8217;ve opened up their lounge so that <b>it is now twice the former space</b>, and <b>the decor is lighter and sleeker </b>but still very much in keeping with the vintage theme.</p>
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<p>The boma area, too, now <b>opens up to a new vintage dining room</b>, giving guests a third dining option.</p>
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It&#8217;s got one long table for all the guests to sit in, as <b>Selati is a very social lodge compared to most safari lodges</b>, and everyone talks to each other, and the walls are lined with copper pans and memorabilia.</p>
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<b>MEMORIES OF A PERI PERI CHICKEN LUNCH</b></div>
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<b>Aside from the beautiful Ivory Suite</b>, the other place that didn&#8217;t change at all is <b>the terrace where Selati guests have breakfasts and lunches in a very private atmosphere.</b></p>
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This terrace was exactly as I remembered it, and <b>nice memories of my very first lunch here in what seems a lifetime ago, having peri peri chicken upon arrival, full of excitement for Africa</b>, came flooding back.</p>
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I have four contenders for lunch of the year, <b>in a never-ending Travelife</b>, and all of them are in <b>South Africa</b>.</p>
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<b>SOUTH AFRICA&#8217;S MOST FAMOUS RESTAURANT</b></div>
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<p>The most obvious choice would have to be our lunch at <b>La Colombe</b>, <b>one of South Africa&#8217;s best restaurants</b> and still perhaps its most famous dining venue, on the last day of our two-week trip.</p>
<p>We&#8217;d had <b>the best table in the house</b> and an excellent meal, where I&#8217;d ordered everything completely not good for me: <b>oysters poached in champagne</b> and <b>foie gras</b> to start, <b>a big Chalmers beef steak</b> as a main, and <b>something terribly fattening for dessert.</b></p>
<p>But this day was actually a package deal, as I loved this entire day, which was also <b>the last day of our South African trip</b>.</p>
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<b>THE WHOLE DAY IS LOVELY</b></div>
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After lunch, we&#8217;d driven to <b>the Cape of Good Hope</b> &#8212; the very <b>tip of the African continent</b> &#8212; for a last sightseeing hurrah. That picturesque drive along the coast from <b>the wine valley of Constantia</b> to the <b>Cape of Good Hope</b>, full of quaint towns and quietly beautiful bays and coves, was perhaps our most memorable drive.</p>
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<p>So full from lunch, we ended up eating dinner at the restaurant of our hotel, the lovely <b>Steenberg in Constantia</b>, and we&#8217;d ordered a repeat of everything we&#8217;d liked on our first dinner here: I ordered <b>oysters again</b>, and we had one plate of <b>mussels in a lemongrass broth </b>and <b>another plate in white wine</b>, plus salad and dessert. And, of course, <b>some champagne</b>.</p>
<p>It was <b>a really wonderful day</b> to end a great trip.</p>
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<b>SPUR OF THE MOMENT LUNCHES</b></div>
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<p>Then there were <b>two spur-of-the-moment lunches</b> that stand out in<b> two weeks of nothing but enjoyable meals</b>: a <b>dry aged steak at the waterfront in Cape Town</b> and, of all things, <b>a club sandwich lunch</b> at the equivalent of <b>a fast-food joint at Johannesburg airport</b> while waiting for our <b>connection to Cape Town</b>.</p>
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<p>We ate the club sandwich with<b> a strange mixture of hot mustard, ketchup and mayonnaise</b>, that actually tasted very good.</p>
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<p>Both meals were more about my memories of them rather than solely about the food.</p>
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<b>MY REAL FAVORITE LUNCH</b></div>
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But now when I really think about it, my best lunch was a long and fun one at the <b>Bush Lodge camp</b> of the <b>Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve</b>, one of the most luxurious safari experiences in the world.</p>
<p>Sabi Sabi has four stay options on its 65,000 hectare private game reserve (<i>read more about this in the current issue of Travelife Magazine, by the way</i>), and we&#8217;d chosen the very nostalgic, vintage and intimate <b>Selati Lodge</b> as our main base.<br />
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<b>Selati Lodge</b> and <b>the ultra-futuristic and jaw-dropping Earth Lodge</b> at <b>Sabi Sabi </b>are two very special experiences, and these were the two places we chose to stay at for our safari.</p>
<p>And next time I find myself at Sabi Sabi, I think I&#8217;d like to stay at the <b>Little Bush Lodge, </b>which is <b>Sabi Sabi&#8217;s ultra-stylish contemporary camp</b>.</p>
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<p><b>Selati Lodge is a full-service deluxe camp</b> &#8212; certainly no roughing it up whatsoever here &#8212; with highly personalized service and all the luxuries in the world. <b>My presidential suite</b> was an entire villa with a private pool, antique furniture and amenities <b>on par with the best hotels in the world</b>.</p>
<p>At <b>Selati Lodge</b>, we had most of our meals on an open terrace and they were very social affairs. It&#8217;s a small lodge so when we were there, there were only three other couples as guests and we got to know everyone quite well.</p>
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<b>THE CHIC AND MODERN BUSH LODGE</b></div>
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<p>But one day, we decided to venture to <b>the bigger Bush Lodge</b> nearby, which caters to tourist groups and families or friends traveling together en masse, just to see what it was like and to sample the food.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m very partial to exclusive experiences so I didn&#8217;t have <b>high expectations of Bush Lodge</b>, frankly, as it&#8217;s a much bigger venue compared to the <b>Selati Lodge</b>.</p>
<p>But one day we decided to have lunch there anyway and see it.</p>
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<p>The lodge itself was really beautiful. It was full of the kind of <b>interesting contemporary African art and accents</b> that I wanted to take home for my own house. I kept oohing and aahing over everything, and taking photos, so it took us forever to get to the restaurant.</p>
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<b>A HEALTHY BUFFET IN THE BUSH&nbsp;</b></div>
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<p>The restaurant itself is on a terrace, and <b>lunch was buffet style </b>and excellent.</p>
<p>We had<b> all kinds of salads </b>and <b>a very good vegetable quiche</b> which we ate with <b>pesto salad dressing</b>&nbsp;that wasn&#8217;t really supposed to be for the quiche, for a well-matched kick.</p>
<p>For the main course, we had <b>shawarma</b>, and neither of us got the pita bread that went with it.</p>
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<p>Again, an excellent plate of meat, especially when I got the chef to warm it up again.</p>
<p>So the food was very good, and I remember that <b>we sat for about 2.5 hours just eating and laughing </b>about all kinds of nonsense. Actually, on this trip, we were averaging <b>an hour for breakfast</b>, <b>two hours for lunch</b> and <b>at least three hours for dinner</b>, so the duration wasn&#8217;t new.</p>
<p>But for some reason, the <b>combination of fresh and healthy food</b>, <b>lots of laughter</b> and this <b>chic contemporary setting in the middle of absolute wilderness </b>has left a very good memory with me.</p>
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<b>STRANGERS WANT US IN THEIR JEEP</b></div>
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We must&#8217;ve made a pretty good impression on the people around us as well. We were laughing so much at that lunch that people around kept looking at us.</p>
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<p>And later on, while we were buying stuff in the gift shop,<b> two girls staying at Bush Lodge</b>, who&#8217;d apparently seen us at lunch, had suddenly said to us: &#8220;We were told that two people were joining us in our safari jeep from today. You guys looked like you were having so much fun at lunch, so we were hoping it would be you two joining us.&#8221;</p>
<p>No such luck, unfortunately. <b>Each lodge or camp has their own set of rangers and jeeps</b>, and we had our own assigned jeep and ranger team from Selati Lodge for our stay. </p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Breakfast on the terrace of the Westcliff in Johannesburg After a short but wonderful stay in Johannesburg, living a TRAVELIFE at the iconic Westcliff Hotel, we went on to the second part of our trip around South Africa &#8212; to the Sabi Sands in Greater Kruger National Park. Here we&#8217;d booked a stay at the Sabi Sabi Game Reserve, one of the most luxurious safari experiences in the world. HOW TO GET THERE? Federal Air pilots and crew loading the [&#8230;]</p>
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After a short but wonderful stay in<b> Johannesburg</b>, living a <b>TRAVELIFE</b> at the iconic <b>Westcliff Hotel</b>, we went on to the second part of our trip around <b>South Africa</b> &#8212; to the <b>Sabi Sands </b>in <b>Greater Kruger National Park.</b></p>
<p>Here we&#8217;d booked a stay at the<b> Sabi Sabi Game Reserve</b>, one of the most <b>luxurious safari experiences in the world</b>.</p>
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At first, it was tussle trying to decide how to get there from <b>Joburg.</b></p>
<p>But in the end we decided to take the <b>small charter plane from a private hangar </b>just off <b>Joburg&#8217;s international airport</b>. This took us straight to <b>Sabi Sabi&#8217;s private airstrip in about 75 minutes</b>.</p>
<p>After a lovely breakfast on the terrace of the <b>Westcliff Hotel, </b>the hotel&nbsp;car took us straight to the hangar.</p>
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I was surprised at how pretty and comfortable the hangar was.</p>
<p>It made me feel like I was already on a safari, as it had <b>authentic safari decor </b>and even <b>a boutique selling safari-type clothes</b> in case you didn&#8217;t bring <b>white shirts and khakis </b>and then you suddenly felt in an <b>Out of Africa mood</b>.</p>
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<p>We sat in the lounge for a few minutes checking emails and drinking <b>Roobois tea</b>, while they loaded the bags on board the<b> Federal Air plane</b>.</p>
<p>And soon, we were off on our <b>amazing Travelife adventure</b>.</p>
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<b>FLYING WAS FINE</b></div>
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<p>I&#8217;m not good with any kind of small and enclosed space.</p>
<p>But somehow, I was calm and happy on the flight even if <b>I was slightly anxious at first.</b> I think it helped that the crew was nice and the <b>pilots certainly looked very professional</b>.</p>
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I worked on my blog for most of the flight, but every so often I looked out the window <b>in wonder and amazement </b>at the<b> vast expanse of nature below me</b>.</p>
<p>We weren&#8217;t flying very high so it was possible to literally see <b>a lot of Africa from the sky</b>.</p>
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Finally we reached <b>Sabi Sabi</b>, and it was really <b>a painless flight</b>.</p>
<p>And when we got off the plane, <b>our ranger Neil </b>was there in<b> a safari jeep</b> to greet us and take us to the <b>Selati Lodge</b>, which was one of the two lodges we were going to stay at.</p>
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<b>A HEADSTART ON THE ANIMALS</b></div>
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We weren&#8217;t even 10 minutes into the drive when<b> already our safari began &#8212; or rather, literally got jumpstarted</b>.</p>
<p>We saw <b>a group of springbok </b>on the field, jumping and playing around.</p>
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<p>And then a little further afield, on a large plain, a wondrous sight greeted us.</p>
<p>A <b>group of giraffes </b>were literally having a lazy stroll in the park. I clicked away with my camera, <b>admiring the elegance and gracefulness of the giraffes</b>.</p>
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<p>Sure, you can <b>see them in a zoo</b>. But it really was wonderful to see them in the wild, in their most natural habitat.</p>
<p>I said to Neil, our ranger for our stay at Selati Lodge: &#8220;Not bad, for our first 10 minutes.&#8221;</p>
<p>And Neil replied, with lots of confidence: &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry.&nbsp;<b>A great adventure awaits.</b>&#8220;</p>
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Indeed, we were so lucky.</p>
<p>We saw the<b> Big Five </b>we had come from so far to see, and much more, over <b>six hours of game drives</b> every day, for <b>four wonderful and wondrous days in a never-ending, and never-endingly eventful Travelife</b>.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Champagne cocktails right in the bushafter our afternoon safari driveat the Sabi Sabi Game Reserve The other day, on safari in Sabi Sabi, one of South Africa&#8217;s top private game reserves offering one of the best safari luxury experiences in the world, a ranger asked us an interesting question while we were having champagne cocktails out in the wilderness, after an afternoon safari drive. We&#8217;d just driven around the game reserve for about 90 minutes, and in that short span [&#8230;]</p>
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<p>The other day, on safari in <b>Sabi Sabi</b>, one of <b>South Africa&#8217;s top private game reserves </b>offering one of the <b>best safari luxury experiences in the world</b>, a ranger asked us an interesting question while we were having <b>champagne cocktails </b>out in the wilderness, after<b> an afternoon safari drive</b>.</p>
<p>We&#8217;d just <b>driven around the game reserve for about 90 minutes</b>, and in that short span of time, we&#8217;d seen an amazing diversity of wild animals including<b> giraffes</b>, <b>rhinos</b> and <b>springbok</b>.</p>
<p>Then, our ranger found a nice spot to park and he and our tracker took out <b>tablecloths</b>, <b>champagne glasses</b> and <b>a bottle of bubbly</b> for <b>a sunset drink right in the wilderness</b>.</p>
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<p>I guess what he meant was that, being <b>experienced travelers with a yen for adventure and not very many constraints except time,</b> we could have gone anywhere in the world for <b>a luxury safari experience</b>.</p>
<p>There are a couple of <b>great safari experiences around the world</b>, and&nbsp;<b>Sabi Sabi is definitely one of them</b>.</p>
<p>I answered for us as I had been in charge of choosing<b> the best places to stay in South Africa</b>, while the Boss had been in charge of<b> all domestic logistics</b>, <b>restaurants</b>, and <b>sightseeing</b>.</p>
<p>I replied: &#8220;I heard you have <b>great animal sightings</b> and <b>excellent service.</b>&#8220;</p>
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<b>A SABI SABI LODGE FOR EVERYONE</b></div>
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I also liked the fact that<b> Sabi Sabi has four different kinds of lodges</b>, catering to all preferences, and each has a specific theme that is carried out beautifully. I stayed in the presidential lodge of the Selati Camp and that was simply an amazing <b>Out of Africa experience</b>.<br />
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<i><b>More on this in a later blog entry.</b></i></p>
<p>The <b>Sabi Sabi</b> is part of the <b>Greater Kruger National Park</b> in a land area called the<b> Sabi Sands.</b></p>
<p>This is where <b>all the great safari lodges in this part of South Africa are</b>, and they&#8217;re all next to each other, usually simply marked by a dirt road.</p>
<p>Among the <b>top safari camps in Sabi Sands,</b> there&#8217;s quite a bit of competition so jeeps from one safari camp don&#8217;t cross over into each other&#8217;s territories, and <b>everyone knows where the borders are</b>, even if we guests don&#8217;t.</p>
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<b>EQUAL PLAYING FIELD</b></div>
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So as long as you&#8217;re in <b>Sabi Sands</b>, the playing field is pretty even in terms of animal sightings and the animals you see will be pretty much the same.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s all a matter of <b>luck, timing, and the talents of the rangers and trackers</b>.</p>
<p>On the former, <b>a lion may be on one game reserve today</b>, but he may be in the next game reserve tomorrow.</p>
<p>On the latter, the <b>talents and dedication of your ranger and tracker</b> make all the difference in the world.</p>
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<b>WE LUCKED OUT</b></div>
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The Boss and I had <b>two wonderful rangers and two excellent trackers</b>, one pair each for each of the two&nbsp;<b>Sabi Sabi lodges&nbsp;</b>we stayed in.</p>
<p><b>Neil was our ranger</b> during our stay at the <b>Selati Lodge</b>, <b>Sabi Sabi&#8217;s intimate and nostalgic 1920s themed lodge.</b></p>
<p>He was the one who picked us up from <b>Sabi Sabi&#8217;s private airstrip</b> when we flew in <b>on a small charter plane from Johannesburg</b>.</p>
<p>I still remember clearly that <b>mixture of amazement and excitement,</b> and anticipation over a wonderful and new adventure, that I had when we flew in from <b>Johannesburg</b>.</p>
<p>Our pilot took us low and advised us <b>to look out our windows </b>in case <b>we saw rhinos or giraffes running around on the game reserve</b> &#8212; and beneath me I saw <b>the vast expanse of beautiful Africa</b>.</p>
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Then <b>Morah was our ranger </b>during our stay at <b>Earth Lodge</b>, <b>Sabi Sabi&#8217;s futuristic but environmental-friendly lodge </b>with <b>a wow factor</b>.</p>
<p>She took us back to the airstrip on our last day, for our flight back to <b>Johannesburg</b>. That was done in a ten-seater plane, by the way, and we only had one pilot.</p>
<p>The Boss was worried that the really tiny plane would freak me out <b>as I don&#8217;t like small enclosed spaces</b>, but<b> I took out my Mac for the one-hour flight </b>and I was fine for the trip.</p>
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<b>ANIMAL LOVERS WITH A PASSION</b></div>
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We were so impressed with <b>our rangers and trackers</b>.</p>
<p>They all love animals with a passion. You can tell <b>if the rangers love what they&#8217;re doing</b> or <b>whether they just think it&#8217;s a job</b> by the way they keep <b>photos of recent animal sightings </b>on their mobile phones.</p>
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<p>The rangers, like almost everyone we met in the staff during our stay, paid keen attention to the quirks and preferences of each guest.</p>
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<p>The Boss and I both like <b>Rooibos tea with no sugar or milk for breakfast</b>, for instance, and just about whenever tea is offered; and I think we were only asked once about how we liked our tea, and from then on it was always served <b>the way we liked it &#8212; one pot to share, with no milk or sugar</b>.</p>
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<b>THE SAFETY FACTOR</b></div>
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Of course, perhaps the most important reason for having excellent, top-notch rangers is the safety factor.<br />
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<b>Your life depends on the instincts, discipline and courage of your ranger </b>when you&#8217;re out in the bush; and <b>both our rangers were just amazingly dedicated and professional</b>.</p>
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<b>A LION IN THE DISTANCE</b></div>
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One night at <b>Selati Lodge</b>, for instance, we were all having dinner on the terrace on a long and beautifully set-up table, <b>just like a fancy dinner table</b>.</p>
<p>The Boss and I were seated across Neil &#8212; your ranger&nbsp;<b>usually joins you for dinner </b>&#8212; and we were having<b> a wonderful meal</b> when suddenly a lion roared in the distance.</p>
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<b>THE LION&#8217;S ROAR</b></div>
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<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/TravelifeMag" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img decoding="async" alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609786766885102002" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--IkFHDZQHWQ/Tdn3V7HfobI/AAAAAAAADiI/dv2z3NY9bKs/s200/twitter.jpg" style="cursor: move; float: left; height: 136px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 200px;" /></a>Neil immediately ssaid: &#8220;<b>Ssshh. Can you hear the lion roar?</b> That&#8217;s <b>300 meters away</b>.&#8221;</p>
<p>What a sound it made.</p>
<p>It also made our hearts beat faster as up till then, we were <b>36 hours into</b> <b>the Sabi Sabi safari experience</b> and we&#8217;d already seen <b>the Big 4 plus so much more</b>.</p>
<p>This is very unusual, by the way, and <b>we were extremely lucky. </b>It had been a dry spell for lions recently and two couples from Selati Lodge had gone home without seeing the lion.</p>
<p>But <b>if you know the Boss and I,</b> we both don&#8217;t stop at just &#8220;okay.&#8221;</p>
<p>We wanted to see <b>the Big 5 </b>&#8212; and we wanted to see the lion.</p>
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<p>Then while we were enjoying <b>simple but lovely dishes</b> like <b>duck confit</b> and<b> steak</b>, he&#8217;d jumped on his jeep and headed straight out into the darkness and the cold to hunt down that lion.</p>
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<b>The Boss</b> and I saw the headlights of his jeep in the distance, from the dining table.</p>
<p>I said to The Boss: &#8220;Look at Neil. He didn&#8217;t have to do this. He could have said, &#8216;Right. We&#8217;re having dinner, but let&#8217;s try and wake up early to see that lion tomorrow.&#8221;</p>
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Instead Neil came back, all flushed and excited.</p>
<p>He said to us: &#8220;If you&#8217;d like to see that lion, we can do so so now after the main course and you can have your dessert afterwards.&#8221;</p>
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<p>We&#8217;re big on dessert, and on that menu that night was <b>Malva pudding</b>, a local specialty that had been on the wishlist of The Boss ever since <b>David Higgs</b>, one of South Africa&#8217;s top chefs and right at the helm of the new restaurant <b>Five Hundred </b>in <b>Johannesburg</b>, had served us <b>malva pudding</b> <b>topped with foie gras</b> for dinner in <b>Johannesburg, a few days before our safari</b>.</p>
<p>The Boss then said: &#8220;Let&#8217;s have <b>our malva pudding</b> before going out to see the lion.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yeah. Of course the lion would be willing to wait for us outside <b>while we had dessert</b>.</p>
<p>I replied: &#8220;<b>Are we on safari to eat malva pudding or to see a lion?</b>&#8220;</p>
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That kind of put things into perspective for him.</p>
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<p>Needless to say, the Boss and I returned to <b><a href="http://www.sabisabi.com/" target="_blank">Selati Lodge</a></b> feeling on top of the world. We were so happy.</p>
<p>What an exhilarating feeling it is <b>to have completed seeing all the wild animals on your wish-list</b>, <b>in their natural habitat</b>.</p>
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<p>The <b>lodges of Sabi Sabi </b>are among <b>the most luxurious safari lodges in the world, </b>and they have over 6000 hectares of private lands to view wild animals in.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s really the best of both worlds as you&#8217;re not fighting over animal photo opportunities with people from other safari lodges, as <b>only Sabi Sabi guests are on the Sabi Sabi estate</b>.</p>
<p>No 10 jeeps from 10 different safari lodges trying to see the same lion, for example.&nbsp;This makes all the difference in a safari experience as you can really get a good and uninterrupted view of the animals in their natural environment.</p>
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<p>And when you return from safari, you&#8217;re back in <b>a beautiful and civilized world</b> of <b>organic toiletries</b>, <b>fine bed sheets</b>, <b>private plunge pools</b>, and <b>champagne cocktails.</b></p>
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<p>We’d just had a very nice lunch at another lodge on the <b>Sabi Sabi Game Reserve</b>, which is called <b>Bush Lodge</b>, before returning to <b>Selati Lodge</b>, where we were staying.</p>
<p>The <b>Sabi Sabi Game Reserve</b> has four lodges and <b>each has its own personality and attractions</b>.</p>
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<p>The <b>Selati Lodge</b> is <b>an intimate and nostalgic retro lodge</b> and it’s a really nice choice for those looking for <b>an old-fashioned but luxurious safari experience</b>.</p>
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<p>It’s perfect for couples and those looking to socialize with other guests as there are only eight rooms &#8212; so that&#8217;s <b>a maximum of 16 guests at the lodge</b>. Everyone becomes friends very quickly.</p>
<p>When we were staying there, there were only eight guests and we all had fun together, talking about our animal sightings and comparing notes on travels. Dinner was <b>a half-circle around a campfire</b>, out in the open, but with <b>fine table linen </b>and <b>a four-course meal</b>.</p>
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<p>Meanwhile <b>Bush Lodge is hip and contemporary</b>, as well as a much bigger lodge. It’s almost like a regular hotel in a safari setting, but with <b>great African design</b>. We had lunch here just so we could see it, and I swear wanted to bring home<b> the African accents </b>displayed in almost every nook and cranny.</p>
<p><b>Bush Lodge is very nice for groups</b>, and it has more services as well.</p>
<p>I’ll write more on the four lodges later, as it’s good to know for anyone considering a safari at <b>Sabi Sabi </b>– which we highly recommend, by the way.</p>
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<b>Sabi Sabi offers one of the best safari experiences in the world</b>. The Boss and I have been all over the world on <b>some pretty amazing experiences</b>, but we were both very impressed with the overall experience of <b>Sabi Sabi</b>, including the services and facilities.</p>
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<p>The personnel too are top-notch, and when you’re on a safari, I can’t over-emphasize just <b>how important having top-notch personnel is</b>.</p>
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<b>NEVER ANY GOOD THINGS</b></div>
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<b>AND FOREVER ON THE BLACKBERRY</b></div>
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Anyway, that afternoon, I was on <b>my Macbook Pro</b> writing a blog entry while The Boss was seated across me on his iPad, reading my blog,<b> looking up information on South Africa</b> and possibly answering emails on his phones as well.</p>
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<p>He’s always on <b>his two Blackberries or his iPad</b> , by the way, so sometimes I just send him an email even if he’s just seated across me, if I want to ask him a question.</p>
<p>Yesterday, for example, we were having tea and he was engrossed on his phones as usual. I was just seated next to him working on my computer, and midway I asked him: “What time is it?”</p>
<p>No answer. He didn’t hear me at all as<b> he was fiddling with his two Blackberries again</b>. So I sent him an email instead, <b>knowing it would pop up on one of those Blackberries</b>, with text only on the subject title.</p>
<p>“What time is it?” I wrote.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;That’s the kind of thing I have to resort to at times, to get something across to him.</p>
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<b>PUTTING UP WITH NICENESS</b></div>
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Anyway, back to my story. He was on his gadgets again while we were in <b>the living room of the Selati Lodge</b>, and I was working on my computer. While he was doing these, he was complaining that I was writing very inaccurately about him in the blog.</p>
<p>He said to me, although with a smile: “You should be glad I’m so nice, that I actually put up with all of these inaccuracies.” He meant that he was being such a good sport and that he was nicer than how I was describing him in this blog, when actually I think it’s the other way around.</p>
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<b>CHECKING OUT THE GIGGLES</b></div>
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<td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>That&#8217;s Ashley, having some fun with us,<br />over mid-afternoon champagne cocktails<br />at Selati Lodge.&nbsp;</i></b></td>
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<p>We were having this conversation and laughing quite a bit at the same time, that <b>Ashley and Brett</b>, the <b>managers of the Selati Lodge</b>, came over to see what all the laughing was about.</p>
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/TravelifeMag" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img decoding="async" alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609786766885102002" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--IkFHDZQHWQ/Tdn3V7HfobI/AAAAAAAADiI/dv2z3NY9bKs/s200/twitter.jpg" style="cursor: move; float: left; height: 136px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 200px;" /></a>The Boss explained to them: “She writes about me in her blog all the time, and it’s all inaccurate. She&#8217;s never nice to me.”</p>
<p>I replied: “I only write about you when you&#8217;re somehow part of my day. I write about everyone who&#8217;s part of my day in a significant way.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then I added: &nbsp;&#8220;And I can’t make you sound nicer than you really are. I don’t make up stuff.”</p>
<p>There was a time, a very long time ago, when he was very nice, and I’d written about him in this way. But that was ages ago.</p>
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<b>CHANGE OF HEART</b></div>
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<p>But then, that very moment, I had a change of heart. Life’s short and I can embellish a little if it’ll make him happy. So I said to him: “Okay, I’ll make you more of something but you’ll have to choose. I can make you sound smarter than you are, or nicer than you are. But I can’t do both. That would be impossible. So choose which one you prefer.”</p>
<p>Then I added: “But  I think you should go with smarter. That’s easier for me to invent out of nothing.”</p>
<p>Of course I was just teasing him. He’s never as nice as I would like him to be, but he’s not that bad either. And <b>this amused Brett and Ashley no end</b>.</p>
<p><i><b>Scroll down to read more&#8230;.</b></i></p>
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<b>GETTING OUTSIDE HELP</b></div>
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So I said to Ashley: “If you can think of something nice for me to write about him. I’ll do it.”</p>
<p>Ashley giggled and promised to do so. But by the time <b>we’d checked out of Selati Lodge</b> to go on to <b>the next Sabi Sabi lodge</b>, she still had not come up with an answer.</p>
<p>And as we rode out of the <b>Selati Lodge driveway</b>, there was Ashley waving and giggling, but still with nothing nicer to say about <b>The Boss</b>. And that’s why you’re still reading about him exactly as he is, instead of as he wants to be portrayed.</p>
<p>Just a bit of fun in a never-ending, and never-endingly eventful <b>Travelife</b>.</p>
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