Africa is famous for it’s diversity in animals, plants and landscapes. One of the main reasons we extended our layover here to 20 days was so that we could go and see these things. Only 3 days after we arrived, we packed up and went on a four-day camping safari in Kruger National Park. The goal was to see the “Big 5” (elephant, rhino, leopard, lion and buffalo). We slept in tents within the park boundaries. We spent all day, every day (and some nights) in safari trucks crawling around the park, straining our eyes out into the bush. Finding animals in general wasn’t too difficult, they were everywhere. Things like impalas, zebras, waterbucks, steenboks, giraffes, and hippos were so commonplace that by the third day we passed them by with hardly a look. We were
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