Next stop: Mavunje Campsite

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After two nights at the Rupara Rest Camp, we break down our camp today. I'm up a bit early. So after packing my backpack, field bed and bedroll, I make use of the time before everybody wakes up to write in my diary. Our guides decide to change a tire on our Landcruiser before leaving since it grew a bit of a «belly», which worries them. I take the opportunity to play around with the time-lapse function on my iPhone.
Instead of going directly to our destination, we take time for a short game-drive in the Mudumu National Park, where some monkeys deliver some of the best comedy entertainment we've ever experienced.
Just in time for lunch, we arrive in our next camp: Mavunje Campsite, owned by Dan from England. It's a simple and lovely camp, where elephants and hippos travel through at night. Unfortunately, that was not in the stars for us, but at least we see those animals again on our evening game-drive to another part of Mudumu. The hippos come ashore to eat when the sun goes down, and I'm fascinated by those giants shining like diamonds in the evening sun.
Later, in my tent, I fall asleep to the playful hippo grunting and a lion growling far away.Read more