A tale of two game drives. One in the morning ran from 0630 to 1030 and was somewhat dull, monochrome and unexciting. The animals had obviously found something better to do than promenade for Muzungus in jeeps. I had bum ache long before the four hours were up.
Lounging about by the pool or sending blog paras filled the time until 1600, the start time for the evening game drive. There had been much discussion about actually going on the second drive, as the first had drawn a virtual blank. What a good job we found more faith. The animals' evening shift put on a magnificent show, including lions, hippos, leopards (yes, plural), hyenas, wild dogs (a very rare spotting, apparently), and tiny, newborn young of elephant and giraffe.
The last two hours of the drive, after a sundowner drink on the riverbank, were conducted in darkness, a spotter sweeping the landscape with a high-intensity beam.
Shortly after zipping the tent up it began to rain......
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