while visitors drive around on paved roads, wild animals are crossing streets and roaming around the natural park.
we saw a lot of cool animals: rhinos (Right next to our car!), a lot of elephants and giraffes, baboons, hippos, and deer-like creatures, (e.g. a Lot of impalas). for the most part, i think this experience was... exciting?
more like mentally exhausting!
you see, we were trying to spot any kind of cat (e.g. lion, leopard, cheetah) the entire time but ended up seeing none. our car was especially desperate to see a lion and some "real carnage." one of us would shout, "LION!" and jon (one of the volunteers here), would slam on the breaks, back up, take out his binoculars and search in the distance, only to find... a rock. we would even stop at sites where birds seemed to be hovering above in circles, but find no carnage. the last hour at the park was the worst because we kept on shouting and stopping. no lion, no carnage, but we did end up buying our own impala meat at the park and cook it for the evening's braai. it's crazy to think that the park is not a zoo; the animals are actually living there, and people are free to drive around and see them.
(huge kudu!)
(bats sleeping/cleaning themselves inside the cafe hut *_*)
anybody interested in seeing some live action at kruger, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM
we were at that exact site, but... no carnage.
:'(
2 comments:
bats???!! *_*
i watched that video a few times about 6 months ago...just crazy....that's cool that you got to sit in front of that same water hole...i heard bat dung leaves pretty tough stains ;p
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