After a long night and a few casual drinks at n the boss which i paid for myself thank you!! I headed off to bed around 4am( lol) I was awoken at 6am by my roomie who asked me if I was going to Kruger. Without any hesitation I said no thanks have fun! As I laid in bed trying to go back to sleep I wandered “should I have gone” yes I probably should have. Luckily for me Owen came banging door to door to see if there were any stragglers left behind who wanted to go ? so I threw on some clothes and headed out for Kruger. When we got to the Orpen Gate I had to buy a wildcard which will allow access to any park in Kruger for a year!! and it was pretty cheap as well. When we went through the gate me , Owen and James in a little whoopie car we were very excited and opened the map to see if we could find the same waterhole that battle at kruger was filmed at, but there was literally 50 different waterholes to go through se we gave up on that idea quick. Kruger wasnt really what I was expecting sure it is the size of Israel it was huge and no matter what road you went down you could just drive endlessly. There was literally a line of cars you had to travel behind, which was good in a sense because you knew you were going to see something based on how many cars and 2ft lenses were at one area at a time, but in another sense it wasnt as private and natural this way either, it was like being at a zoo with a line of peole around an exhibit and you have to wait your turn to get a glimpse of a tiger or gorilla. We were at Kruger for about 9 hours and we saw plenty of giraffe, impala, gazelle, wildabeest, cape buffalo, kudu, many bird species, elephant, crocodile, baboon, vervet monkeys, zebra but no cats still !! sadly. We went to this little tourist shop a couple times and they have this chart where people mark where they had a sighting, there were about 5 lion sightings, no wild dog sighting because of how highly endangered they are, and a couple leopard sightings. By the time we got to the watering hole where a male and 2 females were spotted, they had left with no traces other than a fully eaten carcass. At the shop i bought some post cards and a really cool board game that teaches you all these fun facts about wildlife and such, so maybe that will help me learn more. I cant believe how close the animals allowed us to get to them, we were literally like within feet from them, they are just so used to cars it doesnt fade them. I would have to say the coolest sighting would be watching an elephant bathe in the watering hole. it literally got all the way in with just the top of his head and trunk out of the water!! that was really neat, i wanted to go swim with him so bad, but i would have been kicked out and arrested. When we got back to campus i was pleased to find out that the other group that went saw the BIG FIVE ( leopard, lion, buffalo, elephant, rhino) I was sooo jealous of all the awesome pictures and stories, i think everyone has seen a cat now except me , why am i being punished!! the way this is going im probably going to get more than i bargained for with a cat when one finally does show up!! anyways in all it was a good day,
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