Hey everyonee!
Just to let you know we are all okay and the trip is going to plan so far..

The 11 hour flight was okay besides not much sleep occurred and poor little claire was sick! However, now she is feeling much better.
After landing a few minutes late we RAN through Johannasburg airport carrying all our luggage apart from those who were assisted by the helpful porters. It was insisted we left our bags with the porters and board the flight asap without any passport checks! We boarded the plane last and made it 9 minutes before take off!

We arrived an hour later in Durban where we waited and waited and waited for our luggage.

Which never arrived.

We left for a 20 minute drive to Nomads backpackers where we spent the night in bunk beds with a pool and lovely garden! We ate tea after visiting tyhe supermarket and then hastily made our way to bed.

We were just drifting off as our lost luggage finally arrived! We were all relieved we could change the clothes we had been in for the past 2 days and be able to shower in the morning!

On day two we packed up and set off for a four hour journey to the horse ranch in Lesotho where the weather was a little different to Durban. We enjoyed the day time temperatures but night time proved to be a challenge when temperatures dropped to minus numbers!

We wrapped up warm and prepared for what was surprisingly quite a nice sleep and woke this morning feeling refreshed and enoyed another helping of porridge and toast.

Today is a preperation day for the next 5 days of trekking! Some of us are lending a hand on the farm while others are shopping for the food that we will be carrying for the next few days.

We will be spending our time in mud huts in the cold so are depending on our sleeping bags to keep us warm in the -14 degrees that have been present over the last few weeks.



There have been a couple new friends made already! Including simon the horse and smeagal the dog.

Simon is a horse that is treated much more like one of us.. while cooking yesterday we were greated by a big horse that willingly helped himself to alex's shoulder. DONT PANIC he doesnt have rabees and nothing was left besides a little red mark.

Smeagal is the sheep dog who is almost the same size as little ness and is honestly quite dangerous looking. We are forbidden to touch or feed smeagal because he is a working dog.. i dont think many of us would want to anyway!

Pembs was warned early on about the dog so when he was crossed by a little baby jack russel (not smeagal) he was eager to get out of the way and scream out loud 'IS THAT THE BIG WHITE DOG!?'


The people here are lovely and everyone is healthy and happy, i have been instructed to tell everyone at home we are al missing you already!

We will keep you updated as much as possible. We havent been able to get hold of our tracking info for you but you will be able to find it on the true adventure website by emailing.

Daisy and Ness