Safari

The second part of our trip was to Kurger National Park for a safari. We have been wanting to do this for ages and this was the perfect excuse to go. We were there for 5 days and you basically drive around for about 6 hours a day, 3 in the morning beginning at 530am and then 3 hours in the early evening starting around 430pm. They feed you none stop, even when you are out looking for animals, they will break after about 2 hours and put a table with all sorts of drinks and snacks. Morning will be coffee and stuff and afternoon is almost a full bar and snacks. You still have breakfast, lunch and dinner back at the camp so that means they feed you 5 times a day. Its not a camp at all, lts a resort. At night after dinner you have to have a guard walk you back to the room as all sorts of animals come into the lodge area at night and there are many stories of people killed by animals.

Anyhow it was really quite amazing and we are really glad we did it. We managed to see th "big 5" which are basically all the animals that will kill a human. It includes Lions, Elephants, Buffalo, Rhino, and Leopard. There are loads of other animals around like Monkeys, Baboons, all sorts of antelopes, Wilder beast, Wild Boar, Giraffes, some amazing birds etc.

It was 2 hour flight from Cape Town and then a 2 hour drive. The first thing we saw was a Giraffe and this was just driving to the place.

Our first drive, we were lucky and saw lots of elephants and a pair of Lions amd Rhinos.

The hippo is also consider one of the most dangerous animals there and we spotted this one way out of the water chilling in the bushes.

The next day we saw the same pair of Lions eating. The are brothers but apparently even brother don't share their food so only the big one got to eat.

Walter the guard likes to dance and blow his whistle every time our range rover drives pass. The other photo is the bar they set up while you're out there. There's nothing like seeing man eating animals while you've had a few drinks.

Apparently Buffalos are also really dangerous. They told us that if we got off, they would charge at us try and kill us with their horns then trample on you till y ou stop moving. Killer gecko n the wall.

When the rangers go out, they take the big ass elephant stopping 457 rifle. Oh that's me doing some tracking...

The view from our room was amazing, a herd of elephants would come and drink in day time and a ddbig Lion would sit about 200 meters from us. We made sure our door was closed at night.

The food was really good. We Tate everything from Wild Boar, to Wilder Beast to Kudu, Impalas etc.

Elephants Buffalos and Hippos apparently kill most people out of all the big animals. The Leopard took us 4 days to track and they finally found it wandering around. It was amazing to see. They walk right pass our topless car and look at us.

my wife getting some sun. A pic with out ranger Enok and tracker Sam.

The Leopard taking a pee.

We found another pride of female lions as they came upon some lunch, they started stalking which was really exciting. They drive riht next to the Lions and they don't pay any attention to the car at all. They didn't catch anything but it was still great to watch. That's all folks !