Safari

It’s been awhile since I updated, eh?  We had quite a time on Kapama Private Game Reserve last weekend.  The lodge was pretty amazing; all of the staff were incredibly friendly (even when we showed up well past our supposed arrival time on Friday night), our tracker and ranger were incredibly knowledgeable about the animals we saw, the food was excellent, and the spa was great too!  We saw some amazing things–almost all of the big 5, aside from the Leopard; and we even got to witness a rare live kill one night, where we saw a lioness take down a wildebeest and feed it to her cubs.  I will let the pictures speak for themselves, but I have to warn you, some of them can be a bit graphic.

After the lodge, we made a quick stop at the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre.  There, we saw Cheetahs, several types of wild cat, and my favorite, wild dogs.  Here are some more pictures from there.

The only minor setback we had that weekend was that two of the tires on our rental car blew out at the same time.  There was a jagged piece of pavement that we didn’t see when we were driving, and it shredded the sidewall of both passenger-side tires on the car.  Oops.  It also happened pretty much in the middle of nowhere. Thrifty was great though, they sent us a replacement car from two hours away and we were on our way.

All in all, a great weekend at safari!