April 3 - LIONS!

at 6:30 AM 8 of us with Pierre and Antoinette went looking for some wild life in the park. Within 15 minutes of leaving our cabins we spotted 2 Male Lions! This was the first time that our tour guides had seen Lions in the park (they have been there over 25 times!). This was absolutely amazing because these we wild Lions that looked like they had just got done eating a fairly large meal. I have some amazing close up pictures of the lions because they got within 5 feet of our van. We followed the Lions around for a very long time and decided to head back to the cabins after a couple of hours. The place we were staying at had an outdoor pool that all of us spent time at in the early afternoon. The South African sun is very hot and I got a pretty nice burn that afternoon, but oh well! We decided to go on another safari later that day and ended up seeing more and more animals. We ran into the same Lions we had seen earlier in the day. We also saw warthogs, kudu, zebras, tourtoise(sp?), etc. After our second safari we ate dinner at the restaurant by the park and had some drinks as a group. It was a great/exciting day for everyone.