Botswana 2 ~ day 3
28/12/09 17:56 Filed in: Botswana
Didn't get up too early this morning after the long
day yesterday.
We headed off into the park around 8am after booking a night drive for this evening. Today is our only full day in the park and I'm hoping to see lions. The sighting board indicated they were just north of the camp.
We drove up to the north of Kruger to the Pafuri border crossing into Mozambique and to see "Crooks Corner" at the very top of the park where you can see the borders of Mozambique and Zimbabwe just across the river full of crocs. This part of the park is fantastic to drive through and has a very different terrain than the rest of Kruger. This is the area the Nyala like and we got to see a lot of them, which was in contrast to my last visit.
Again there were lots of Elephant, Zebra, Giraffe, Impala etc. We haven't seen a lot of Kudu or buffelo this time which is interesting.
We arrived back at camp right on closing time rather tired. Driving at 20-50kph is tiring.
The night drive was absolutely uneventful, with the exception of seeing Hiyeena and cubs. It was still nice to be driving around the african bush at night though. Once again, they made the mistake of giving the spotlights to kids!!! I know it's fun for them, but REALLY we're trying to find animals not look at the sides of the effing road.
Tomorrow there must be lions..surely.
We headed off into the park around 8am after booking a night drive for this evening. Today is our only full day in the park and I'm hoping to see lions. The sighting board indicated they were just north of the camp.
We drove up to the north of Kruger to the Pafuri border crossing into Mozambique and to see "Crooks Corner" at the very top of the park where you can see the borders of Mozambique and Zimbabwe just across the river full of crocs. This part of the park is fantastic to drive through and has a very different terrain than the rest of Kruger. This is the area the Nyala like and we got to see a lot of them, which was in contrast to my last visit.
Again there were lots of Elephant, Zebra, Giraffe, Impala etc. We haven't seen a lot of Kudu or buffelo this time which is interesting.
We arrived back at camp right on closing time rather tired. Driving at 20-50kph is tiring.
The night drive was absolutely uneventful, with the exception of seeing Hiyeena and cubs. It was still nice to be driving around the african bush at night though. Once again, they made the mistake of giving the spotlights to kids!!! I know it's fun for them, but REALLY we're trying to find animals not look at the sides of the effing road.
Tomorrow there must be lions..surely.
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