Visiting Kruger Game Reserve is like driving through The
Lion King. We drove all day for three days, stopping every time we spotted
something amazing just roaming around. And we only saw a small portion of the
park – it’s the size of Belgium.
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| Antelope |
We camped in our tent, stopping at a new campsite every
night. We made one big oversight in planning this trip: the website said all
campsites had kitchen facilities, so we brought enough groceries for three
dinners and road snacks. When we got there we discovered that “kitchen
facilities” means “table with hot plate.” No pots and pans, no utensils, no
plates. So we ate bread and cheese with a side of trail mix for three days.
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Wild dogs are a rare spotting but we were lucky to run across a pack
of them hunting down an antelope. |
In fact, the whole camping experience was unenjoyable. The
sites were full, but we were the only ones camping in a tent. Everyone around
us had RVs with patio furniture and many even surrounded their plots with mesh
fences to complete the illusion that they were still in suburbia. Women brought
their curling irons. To each his own, but nothing’s more annoying than having
to endure your neighbors’ drunken singing, laughing and shouting in Afrikaans
while you’re trying to sleep. I think everyone there was at least twenty years
older than us; you’d think it’d be quiet by 2am. No.
But the drives were awesome. We saw tons of incredible,
beautiful animals that’d we’d never seen before. I got over my fear of driving
on the left side. I had “Hakuna Matata” and “When I was a Young Warthog” stuck
in my head the whole time. (Previously it was Shakira’s “Waka waka” from
looking around South Africa, and “This land is your land” back in the
redwoods.)
LOVE IT!!
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