The rooms in the lodge are great.They're individual huts and really comfortable.I got great nights sleep and woke up feeling human again.The first 4 days of my trip were quite hectic and rushed and I finally feel relaxed and settled.It's an early day today - 4:45 wake up for a full day in Kruger National Game Reserve.There's only 3 of us on this trip.Me and a really nice young couple from Switzerland, Massimo and Fabienne.It's about an hours drive to the park entrance and we immediately start seeing game.Kruger is about the size of Massachusetts and full of all the animals you can imagine.It's a protected reserve and the animals are wild and in their natural habitat.It's so vast it's difficult to describe.We saw herds of zebra and impala.4 lions lounging next to their recent kill of a water buffalo with vultures waiting their turn.Large families of baboons digging for roots in a riverbed, a small antelope called the steenbok that looks like a baby deer but he's full-grown, a water buck antelope that has a white ring on his bottom that looks like a bulls eye (it's so they can follow each other), turtles crossing the road and stopping traffic, and pelicans, and of course, elephants and zebra.It was everything I imagined and I think I took over 200 pictures.But still the leopard evades us!After we got back to the lodge, went down for a beer and sat and chatted and drank with the staff - Glen the GM, Lee his assistant who is just the perkiest and friendliest person, and Mark the Operations Mgr who runs the safaris.Then a wonderful BBQ dinner around an open pit fire (don't see many of those in CA anymore).A great day and a great evening.