Moholoholo reabilitation center

This morning's adventure took us to Moholoholo, a rehabilitation center who specialises in rescuing hurt, poisoned, or captivity-bred animals.
Those that they can save, they strive to reintroduce into the wild, and the tourists never see them.
The rare few that can never return to the wild remain in the park as ambassadors for the tourists. Those include animals who have lost key limbs, or who were raised in captivity and never learnt to hunt.
The tour is an emotional wringer, as the idea is to impress onto the visitors the horrific treatment of these animals. But all well worth it.

As we were returning to our car, a local couple was bringing in a big bag grunting ominously, and it turned out to be an orphaned baby hippo! The size of a small Labrador, it had apparently drifted down the river and into their property...Read more