Today was different from anything I’ve ever experienced. We woke up early for a relaxing morning on our patio, only to be greeted by vervet monkeys, franklins, several types of birds, warthogs, and more. It was pretty exciting without leaving the house! After a low-key day of some grocery shopping, grilled cheeses, and naps, we then hit our first safari ride into the bush in the late afternoon. Can I just say it was SO COOL! We were in this huge Land Rover-type vehicle that seated 20. At first the animals we saw were pretty far away: a baboon troop, a couple of lone white rhinos, some water bucks. Then the real excitement began with our first giraffe, a gang of wildebeests, some impala with another wildebeest, a pack of zebras (pronounced “zeh-bra” here in SA
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