Phinda Private Game Drive

We were all up at 6am today for what should have been an early start. Unfortunately Pete had got the times wrong and the cheetah rehabilitation centre he thought opened at 8:30am didn’t actually open until 10:30am, something we didn’t find out until we were on the road.
Pieter said no worries and we’ll take the game drive route through Phinda Private Game reserve. This is exactly the same road we took the other day when we saw the baby rhino.
The guy at the security gate took our names and car registration and then let us through. It was still early and just 25°c so relatively cool for South African standards.
Straight away we spotted a big herd of Imyala, then we saw warthogs with there babies running along the edge of the road. Impala’s were everywhere as normal but they are always nice to see as they look so pretty. Then we spotted an African banded Snake Eagle which was amazing and I even managed to get it in flight.
A few miles down the road we came to hundreds of Zebra, with a few wilderbeast dotted inbetween. They really were everywhere.
Then just before we came to the exit we spotted more wilderbeast and in the back were 4 rhino. It was an amazing drive and we’ve been so lucky with seeing rhino on this trip, that’s 8 in 7 days.
We left the private game drive at 10am and then it was just a 30 minute drive to our stop of the day.Read more