Animal viewing doesn't get much better than this! We spent two nights at Kapama Buffalo Camp, sleeping in luxury tents. Two morning game drives and two in the afternoon gave us wonderful, close encounters with all kinds of animals, including the Big Five! We saw both a leopard and a cheetah.
From Kapama we drove to Polokwane, north of Johannesburg, for a night at the Protea Ranch Hotel & Nature Conservancy. In the afternoon we got to see beautiful adult lions, including several white Kalahari Lions. They are exquisite. We also got to go in an enclosure with 2 young cheetahs. It's quite a sensation to have a cheetah lick your head!!
Sunday morning we did the Walk with the Lions. This is hard to get your head around, but you actually go out in the bush accompanied by 4 lions and several rangers. You can touch their back or tails, but not their head or front shoulders. You have to see it to believe it!
Our Ranger Wayne and our Tracker Foster show us all the tricks of the trade!
From Kapama we drove to Polokwane, north of Johannesburg, for a night at the Protea Ranch Hotel & Nature Conservancy. In the afternoon we got to see beautiful adult lions, including several white Kalahari Lions. They are exquisite. We also got to go in an enclosure with 2 young cheetahs. It's quite a sensation to have a cheetah lick your head!!
Sunday morning we did the Walk with the Lions. This is hard to get your head around, but you actually go out in the bush accompanied by 4 lions and several rangers. You can touch their back or tails, but not their head or front shoulders. You have to see it to believe it!
Kapama Buffalo Camp
A young giraffe greets us on the way in.
Off on our first Kapama Game Drive
Mother hippo and baby
Sunset over the Drakensberg Mountains
Two lions cuddle together
Three lions listen to distant sounds
Buffalo Camp at night
My Luxury Tent at Buffalo Camp
Cape Buffalo
Rhino
Rhino
Zebras are so beautiful!
Family of elephants
They come close!
A Tower of Giraffes posing for us
Twins?
And a beautiful Cheetah resting in the shade!
Cheetah
Morning Coffee Break
This zebra is really young!
Cape Buffalo and a Warthog
Rhinos again
Kiko and Matt enjoy the pool at Buffalo Camp
Impala at the Water Hole
Huge Marshall's Eagle
And we get to see a leopard!
What a graceful animal
Our Leopard
Trio of Giraffes
Two Giraffes sparring (necking)
Protea Ranch Resort and Nature Conservancy
Protea Ranch Resort Rose Garden
Garden out my room window
Bright Hibiscus
That's the way to carry the laundry!
Two female Kalahari Lions
This female is not too interested in us!
Kalahari Male and a Female Lion
Ahhhhh!
That is us in the vehicle!
Kalahari Lion
Drinking at the Lion Pond
This Cheetah is actually licking my head! It feels like rough sandpaper!
Suzan and Denny enjoy the Cheetahs
Donna gets up the nerve too!
Kiko and Matt cuddle with the Cheetahs
Three Lions watching food in the distance!
Our Team to take us on the Walk with the Lions
Ladies First! Suzan gets to walk with the Lion.
Kiko is really getting into this!
Lions can jump!
Denny is that a roar or a yawn!?
Matt looks like he is used to this!
Kent with three lions
Group Photo - Five People and Four Lions!
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