Spent 3 days at Hluhluwe Park (pronounced shushlooi I believe), a few hours north of Durban, and took two safari drives, one in the evening and one the next morning at 5 am. The animals were fantastic and really close to the vehicle and included elephant, black rhino, buffalo, giraffe, zebras, nyala and troupes of baboons. At some point I will get piccies of them all downloaded to Picasa and put a link at the side of this blog. As a taster these black rhino
On one of the drives there was a family whose father had been brought up in a township 30 years ago, worked for 15 years for someone and then set up a hardware shop. He now has 2 shops and his son manages one and will be taking over the business soon. He loved South Africa and was so proud of his son, staging the World Cup, the wildlife and the country and was now paying for his family to stay for the third time in this wonderful park.
Then this pregnant zebra stopped right by the vehicle and you can see scratches on its neck and big healed wound on its side where a lion has sat on its back attacking it
A tale of two survivors in South Africa.
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