We can do this game drive thing, right?

Today – team Wallamble take on Kruger with a self-planned-self-drive tour. After studying the animal sighting map the night before, we were up early, in the car and off (with our fingers crossed hoping to see something, anything – but unsure of if this would be successful. Afterall we could just spend hours driving along empty dirt roads…

We piled into the car as the sun was starting to rise and took the long route to….

Breakfast at Tshokwane Rest Camp for a breakfast of buffalo pies, bacon and eggs 🙂
Over breakfast, we were fending off the hovering baboons. Hilariously we watched a massive papa baboon push open the door, grab a packet of rusks and then pull open the door to escape. It was so smooth and fast – it was obviously well practised. The nearby baboon wrangler did not even have time to react! The savvy baboon managed his escapade twice in the hour we were there!

We were off, exploring again and saw lots of animals! Zebras, mongeese, an ostrich, elephants, a giraffe Steinbecks, impalas, a hyena, baboons, monkeys, pretty birds, warthogs, buffaloes….

A herd of elephants grazing next to a river and and lions under a tree

Then returning for a late lunch at Skukuza rest camp.

Check out the varieties of meat in the butcher shop at the rest stop!

A much deserved nap before joining the ranger-led sunset game drive…

where the highlights were hyenas

and 3 leopards!

Before a very “late dinner”…at erm … 8pm!!!

A magnificent day in the spectacular Kruger National Park 🙂