South Africa: Day Four (23 October)

The minibus picked us up at 7.45am and it took six hours to drive to the Kruger National Park, with just one stop at Milly’s on the way.

We went on our first game drive straightaway and had already seen warthogs, impala, giraffes and kudu (another kind of antelope) when we heard someone had spotted a leopard. This is very rare so we quickly drove to meet them and we got to see it too. We also saw the oldest elephant in the park, Mulani, so could cross two of the Big Five off our list.

We had dinner under the stars in an African Boma. There was lots of choice, including crocodile meat but Morris and I didn’t try any.

Barnaby

South Africa: Day Three (22 October)

Parts of Johannesburg are not very safe for tourists so we didn’t go far from our hotel. We went to the shopping centre next door and also found an internet café but none of the messages we sent from there arrived :-(.

Then we wrote postcards in the hotel garden before having an early night because we were going on Safari the next day :-). We were hoping we would get to see the Big Five: Elephant, Leopard, Rhinoceros, Lions and Buffalo.

Barnaby