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Another Day on Safari

Another Day on Safari

Makana, South Africa, Africa Pumba Private Game Reserve We got up early again today for our morning safari drive and today we had one goal: to find a cheetah and a buffalo. Pumba definitely has the Big 5 (elephant, rhino, lion, cheetah, buffalo), so of course we want to make sure we see them while we are here. That is proving very difficult though. They don’t tag the animals here, so they don’t know exactly where any of them are….

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First Big Safari Day

First Big Safari Day

Makana, South Africa, Africa Pumba Private Game Reserve We woke up this morning at 6:30am to go on our first morning safari, and I was so excited that I didn’t care how early it was. We met our ranger Justin, and he took us out in the Landrover at 7am with 4 other people. The first thing we saw was a leopard just walking down the road that we were driving on, so of course we stopped. Justin said that…

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Going on a safari

Going on a safari

Makana, South Africa, Africa Pumba Private Game Reserve We woke up today at the lovely Bishops Inn to find that our toilet was absolutely covered in ants. I’ve been in some really nasty places around the world, but this is the worst bug problem I’ve ever seen in an accommodation I was staying in. When we complained to the girl at the front desk, she was very nonchalant when she responded that they have an ant problem, and the ants…

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