South Africa, Part VIII
Posted: June 9, 2008
Author: Pastor Steve
Category: Pastors' Blog
Tags: South Africa, vacation
We continued our trip on May 29th (our anniversary) by leaving St. Lucia and moving on to umfolozi game park(it is connected to HLUHLUWE game reserve. (pronounced “Shoushlooee”) See http://www.game-reserve.com/south-africa_hluhluwe-umfolozi.html for more information on the park. It was a beautiful start to the day. We arrived early in the day and began to see marvelous sights in the park. We first saw a group of Wildebeast’s (gnu) and zebra’s as we drove down the first road. Suddenly, up ahead was the heads of two beautiful giraffes.
As we turned down the main road, we continued to see Impallas, Wildebeast’s, nyalla’s, etc. We came across a park ranger who told us that lions and elephants had been seen up about a mile. We drove up and back and finally stopped on the bridge to see a group of Water Buffalo down near the water. Suddenly, we had a group of elephants. They were drinking, playing and enjoying the river. We looked up ahead and saw some people in another car pointing to the side. A male lion walked across the road in front of us. We continued to watch and another lion came across the road. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a chance to take a picture. We went up the road and back thinking we had missed our chance for a picture. But, as we came back and parked on the bridge to watch the elephants and Water Buffalo, the lions came walking out of the reeds on to the sand of the river area.
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