May 19 - First Game Drive
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From here, we were on a mission to see Africa’s Big Five, known by the acronym as BRELL – buffalo, rhinos, elephant, lion, leopard. Our next stop was Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park for our very first gameLue lisää
From here, we were on a mission to see Africa’s Big Five, known by the acronym as BRELL – buffalo, rhinos, elephant, lion, leopard. Our next stop was Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park for our very first gameLue lisää
We were up at 5:00 a.m. for a 5:30 a.m. breakfast. The staff here at this lodge are incredibly accommodating – they had a full buffet prepared and graciously took hot breakfast orders. We hopped inLue lisää
From here, we headed north to eSwatini, formerly known as Swaziland. As we had come to expect, we shared the road with goats, donkeys, and cows. It was a distressing to see people riding in the backLue lisää
From Wikipedia:
Eswatini (ESS-wah-TEE-nee), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland (SWAH-zee-land; officially renamed in 2018 to Eswatini), is a landlocked country in SouthernLue lisää
Our plan for today was to drive the Panorama Route which is a scenic road connecting several cultural and natural points of interest. The route, steeped in the history of South Africa, is inLue lisää
We hustled our way from the Panorama Route to Kapama Private Game Reserve. We had just enough time to check in and get our cameras ready for our 4:00 p.m. game drive. See a later post for photos ofLue lisää
Up at 5:00 a.m. On safari at 6:00 a.m., again with Tony as our spotter and Harry as our driver and tracker. We learned how to expertly duck left, duck right, duck down as branches came close. Some ofLue lisää
Kapama River Lodge is one of several lodges on Kapama Private Game Reserve, encompassing some 15,000 hectares immediately west of Kruger National Park.
The buildings are fabulous with their extensiveLue lisää
At 4:00 p.m., we headed out for another evening game drive, this time with Michael as our driver and tracker. Harry is fighting a bad case of tonsilitis.
A mischievous monkey was our first sighting.Lue lisää
We set out again at 6:00 a.m. with Tony and Michael, determined to revisit the area where we had seen the hyena last night.
We saw a female and a male lion. We saw impala. We saw rhinos. We saw aLue lisää
Can’t wait! Such an amazing adventure! [Cathy Freifeld]