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Birding the Kruger Park (3): Malelane area

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The room was one stuffed with pillows – it seems some landlords think the more pillows are in a room, the cozier the place is. Malelane is a small town just outside of the Kruger Park – we dropped our stuff there before entering the park for the first time. but later switched to forestry (?).

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Birding Sarajevo or the sentimental journey home

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Before heading higher, above the tree-line, I asked our landlord if there were any minefields to be aware of. A few days after my trip, a news item in the local media attracted my attention: near Sarajevo, a father and a son got killed while cutting firewood in a minefield. Encouraged, I follow the dirt track up. And I become a Birder.

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