When we planned this trip, we had no idea how close we would be getting to the animals and of course had no idea how many animals we would see. We kind of envisioned the animals being "binocular" distance away, but quickly discovered that a lot of animals we could have touched (BUT DIDN'T!) if we had gotten out of our car. Our car was our only protection, and there were a few times we were very thankful for our car!
We had a few encounters that left our hearts pumping. The first was on a guided sunset tour where we witnessed four female lions stalk and then kill an impala. We videotaped the lions having dinner. It's below - warning - if you aren't into that type of thing, don't watch!
The next close encounter came while we were driving down a very narrow dirt road with tall grass on each side and an elephant came out of the grass and charged us. Check out the "aftermath" video.
A third encounter involved baboons. We were taking pics of a bunch of baboons on a bridge and one jumped on our car and took a joy ride on the roof!
We also had an unforgettable experience with a rhino. He was right next to road and there was no one else around. They can't see much which makes them very dangerous. We could definitely sense he wasn't too happy with us but he cooperated and let us enjoy him eating lunch and got some great pics.
We also had to pass a sleeping lion in the road, came a little too close to an elephant rumble, witnessed two leopards stalking impala and had 40 baboon land on our lodge roof which woke us up! These experiences will definitely stick in our memory for a very long time.
I can't believe the lions actually continued to feast while the light was focused on them!
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