5 Honeymoon travel tips

1. Set a budget, go to a travel agent and find the best and cheapest travel packages available. After all this is your honeymoon you want it to be special but you also don’t want to come back from your honeymoon, and then realize that you are broke and have to live off bread and peanut butter for three months.

2. Arrange all you honeymoon plans before hand, you don’t want to run around and make travel arrangements on the day of your wedding. Make your reservations at least 4 to 6 months ahead of time, to get the most suitable rooms and the best flight times.

3. Don’t go to a particular destination, at the wrong season. Your time their will be boring, uninteresting and u will wish that your honeymoon was over. Plan ahead and find out which season is suitable for a great honeymoon.

4. Don’t check in your wedding dress at the airport, take it with you on the plane. You don’t want to arrive at your destination and find that your dress has disappeared. This will only upset u and u will start thinking about funny little things, like this is a sign that u shouldn’t get married. Please take your dress with you on the plane we don’t want you to leave your husband to be, high and dry at the altar.(the same goes for the groom)

5. Take all your documents with you in your handbag. Don’t leave it in the hands of airport officials. When your luggage disappears, all you will get from them will be a look of confusion.

Does your saddle fit your horse?

Follow the saddle fitting guidelines below... .

Place the saddle , first without a saddle pad, behind the horse's shoulder blades, this will ensure maximum shoulder freedom and comfort.Slide the saddle down and back until the saddle stops sliding.
Run your fingers from the front to the back of the horse's shoulder blades.
Girth up the saddle and check the general fit without the weight of the rider.

-No contact should be on the horse's spine - with or without the riders weight.
-The panels should be in contact with the horse's back from front to back.
-The saddle should rest evenly on the horse's back and should not tilt to the front.
-The rear end of the saddle should not lift from the back of the horse.

If the saddle passes the above criteria then remove the saddle and tack up using the saddle pad that you regularly use. With the rider in the saddle go through the above steps again.

Horse-riding heaven

The Waterberg Mountains on the north-west tip of South Africa are horse-riding heaven - wide open spaces, golden grasses, imposing cliffs and exotic wildlife make this one of the most exciting riding destinations in the world. Equus Horse Safaris has moved recently to its own slice of paradise with expansive, fenceless views across the African savannah. Owner Wendy Adams is a passionate and experienced guide, her love for the countryside and nature matched only by the care and dedication she bestows on her excellent, responsive and kind horses. You'll be sharing the trails with small game such as reedbuck, baboon and aardvark - wildlife which lives on her property because it chooses to, not because it's fenced in.

Make sure you plan your honeymoon…

Honeymoon. The very word rings with the promise of romance. Although the two of you may take many trips together throughout your relationship, no other journey will hold the same significance as this vacation, your first trip as husband and wife.

This is the trip you want to be "just right." The perfect hotel. The best hotel room. Trouble-free transportation. And romance, romance, romance.

No trip can be 100% perfect–unexpected discoveries and last-minute plan changes can be part of the fun of travel. However, some surprises—the hotel room that throbs with the sound of the adjacent disco, the B&B with a shared bath, the cruise stateroom with twin beds—are best avoided.

With that information in hand, you’ll be ready to narrow your selection of specific accommodations, flights, and cruises. You’ll keep yourself from reaching your honeymoon destination and wondering "why didn’t we ask about this?" or "why didn’t we think about that?"