What’s up, everybody! I’m back with another blog post entry! Recently, one of my Israeli cousins, Imri, came to visit us for 6 days. The five of us, my two dads, my sister, Imri, and I, went on many awesome adventures together these past few days. Our first exciting adventure was when we went to table mountain and a farmer’s market. We first went to the farmer’s market where we saw and tasted lots of new foods. We even met our NEIGHBORS there, who are taking a tour around Africa. After the farmer’s market, we went to table mountain. Instead of hiking up the mountain like we normally were, my family and had just come from Kilimanjaro and were very tired, so we instead took a cable car up the mountain! Up on the mountain, we saw even more Marvins (See previous posts; they follow us everywhere!) and we got a fantastic view of Cape Town. It was chilly, but it was very cool and it was worth waiting for 30 minutes in line.
The next day, we went to the airport and flew to Johannesburg. At the airport, we met our guide and we went to Kruger Park, the home to thousands of African animals. After an extremely long, 5 hour car ride, we arrived at the park and got into a jeep. We finally started our safari in Kruger Park. Although, we got a pleasant surprise when we first entered. When we entered the actual preserve for the first time, we saw a group of Impalas being stalked by a single, female lion! She didn’t chase after them because of all the commotion the other people were causing. After that, the rest of the first day we just toured around and saw the different animals. But, there was one animal that made the day. As we were driving through a clearing, we saw, 8 feet from us, a fully grown leopard walking. Leopards are very rare in the park and we were in the park for about 1 hour and we already saw one! It was very exciting because I never saw a leopard in the wild before! After that, we saw more animals and our first day ended.
Day 2 went like day 1. We saw elephants, impalas, and more animals scattered all around. We even saw another leopard that crossed the road!! We saw lions that were actually resting on the road a while after. They looked very young and they hadn’t eaten anything in a while, it looked like. There were 2 boys and 9 girls, we could tell by the manes. A few hours later, we saw a full grown lion male and another group of females walked on and next to the road. After that, we saw a baby elephant enjoying its surroundings with its parents. Then day 2 passed by enjoyably and we saw a lot of awesome stuff.
Day 3 passed by faster than the other days. From 6:00 to 8:00, we went on a safari, but didn’t see anything to impressive… except for an African Wild Dog!! They were really rare and it looked very cute. At 8, we left Kruger Park and I ate a delicious chocolate-chip muffin at a cafe. We said goodbye to our guide and went to the airport where we finally left for Cape Town.
The safari was very fun and I would do again anytime! I saw so many new things that were amazing and it was one of the best parts of my whole Africa trip.
It was really fun! However, we were a lot less than 30 feet from the first leopard.
FELT like 30 feet. It was close, but not too close.
Awesome. It looks like she is smiling for your photo.
Thank you for your comment. She was very pretty.