How would you like to take your family on a safari over a whole day? Be picked up at your home and after one hour of driving being taken first to see many elephants plus maybe a lion or gnu in the wild spend 3 hours just cruising around in a little bus taking photos and gazing at these beasts lumbering along side the vehicle. Then leaving and going for a scrumptious lunch to fill those empty stomachs! Afterwards travelling to the best experience of the day! An afternoon filled with a real bush journey in open landrovers searching for lions with their cubs lounging in the midday sun. Then it’s off to find rhinos in their part of the reserve and maybe a giraffe or two as well. By this time our stomachs are craving some nourishment and so we stop for some refreshments and roosterkoek, a small bread cooked on the fire while you wait, with jam. A time of reflectance to discuss what you have seen with maybe other parties from the other vehicles. Then we hop back into the vehicles to go back to search for the lions who as it is getting dark will be searching for their evening meal and thereby giving you a glimpse of Africa at it’s savage best. While looking for these magnificent beasts we spy some giant tortoises or some more giraffe loping across the veld. It’s time to search for some more elephant with their young before heading to the Lapa, which is the largest in southern Africa for the evening 3 course meal. This consists of a ‘potjie’ which is similar to a stew but is cooked over coals for 4 hours and is not stewed but the contents just lifted and the juices allowed to soak through. This is served with vegetables and you can seconds as well if you are still hungry. The main course is followed by desert and cheese and biscuits finishing off with a cup of tea or coffee. We leave the lapa heading out for the last part of our safari searching for the nocturnal animals and flying creatures before heading back to our transport to head home.
This is an experience within the reach of most people and is available in the malaria free Eastern Cape.
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