THREE DAY SAFARI

SABI SABI PRIVATE GAME RESERVE


Before I write anything I must tell you that some of the pictures I am posting are not ours(up until now they have all been ours). We shared an open air jeep with three other couples and one girl had the most amazing camera(her husband won the European poker Championship twice)and was a talented photographer. My camera couldn’t compete but we did SEE everything she photographed!

We flew from Durban to Johannesburg and then took a small plane for an hour west. We then drove into the bush for 30 minutes to Sabi Sabi, a luxurious lodge in the middle of nowhere. We went on “game drives” twice a day--from 4PM til after dark and from 6-9AM. I will remember the cool, crisp morning rides, the silence of the bush when we turned off the jeep to listen and the night skies brilliantly blanketed by stars.

Our guide drove on bumpy dirt roads with a tracker sitting in front. We would leave the roads and drive into the bush when tracks were sighted. It was exciting to see the elephants tear down the trees to eat. We learned that the hippos kill more people in Africa than any other animal. Lions can go two weeks without eating. Their main source of food is the impala which they hunt at night. There are no tigers in Africa. We got as much of a thrill seeing the beautiful birds as we did the animals.

Our guide said that the animals do not see individual people in the jeep; they see the jeep as too big to tackle. Of course, a person outside the jeep would be in real trouble.

We flew to Cape Town and arrived just in time to watch the ship come into port. Our cabin is in the back of the ship on the 8th deck, right in the middle.