Well the night drive at Kruger on our first night there was amazing. We saw 8 female lions in total and two sightings. The second sighting was amazing where 5 of them were walking literally down the road! Check out my video on Instagram @edena2004
Day 2 morning started out great. Right off the bat we saw loads of zebras and giraffe. Then some amazing rhinos were crossing the road right in front of us. In addition to all these animals we saw a hippo outside of the water! He was really far away but it was awesome to see. We drove around until about noon and headed back to our lodge for an afternoon break. We went out again around 1530 until dusk and didn't see that much. We have been falling asleep every night at 20:00 or earlier and waking up so early!
Day 3 we headed south out of the park to head to Swaziland. We left again the earliest we could legally go which is 530. Right out of the gate we saw very little but we think that it had to do with the rainy conditions. We knew that it would take us about 4 hours to reach the southwest gate of the park so we just used this as an excuse to continue our game driving. Around 7 we saw three cheetahs. We were stoked. There was only one other car there too so we got a front row view except that they were still really far away. It was great to see these cats. I've never personally seen cheetahs before in the wild. On my past trip to Kenya, I did see a leopard but it was super far away. Getting the opportunity to see either cheetahs or leopards or even lions for that matter is very rare.
We ended up reaching Swaziland around 13:00. Let me tell you I'm getting excellent experience of using a manual transmission and driving on the left side of the road. I'm an expert now ! And with all these hills and valleys and going up and down and downshifting and just wow. I've probably stalled about 50 times.
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