After a gruelling 21 hour flight, we finally landed in Cape Town.

We spent 3 days in the funky waterfront district and toured around the wine region, table mountain and the cape of good hope.

We saw ostriches, baboons and a bontebok, which is a type of antelope.

We then took a domestic flight top Kruger National Park where we were taken to a private game lodge called Makanyi. It took 1.5 hours to get to the lodge, mostly because we stopped so many times alopng the way to see wildlife. We saw a heaps of giraffes, zebras, a rhino, kudu, impala, a wildebeast and a wart hog. It was the best airport transfer ever!

Makanyi Lodge was magnificent. There are only a 6 rooms, facing a waterhole full of hippos and there were only 12 guests there, which made it really intimate. All drinks are included so needless to say we took full advantage of that.

We took 2 game drives a day for 4 days and the wildlife we saw was truly mindblowing. We saw a pride of lions with about 8 cubs, heaps of rhinos and giraffes, a hyena and tonnes (literally) of elephants.

We had one rhino get a bit antsi and we thought it was going to charge the car. That got the adrenaline going! But even worse was whgen a young female elephant decided to stare down the tracker sitting on the front of our vehicle. Temba sat there very still while this elephant was dancing around him flapping its ears. Our driver Alfred thought it was hilarious and started the car and drove forward, which spooked the elephant into running away. He said that was better than reversing, since the elephant would have followed us if he had done that.

Alfred was a real character and was always playing jokes on us. He purposely drove amongst 4 young rhinos who he knew liked to mock-charge the vehicle. It scared the hell out of us!

Anyway, brilliant time was had and we didn't want to leave the place.