On Safari

To get our safari fix in Africa, we spent a night at the Garden Route Game Lodge to break up our return journey to Cape Town. We stayed in a thatched roofed chalet overlooking the game reserve.

A late afternoon and early morning game drive were the order of the day. The game reserve is actually farmland that is being reverted to wild status and is stocked with wild African animals. the reserve is as close to self sustaining as can be managed with cheetahs controlling the ungulate and ostrich populations. We saw many types of ungulates including eland, springbok and gemsbok and learnt many facts and figures about their weight, how fast they run and how high they jump

Majestic giraffes

Elephants at sunrise

Dangerous looking rhinos, our guide quickly moved our landrover if these beast got too close!

Ostriches on the run

Lions and cheetahs, although not in the the self sustaining reserve as the reserve is not large enough to support the lions. We did not manage to see the cheetahs in the reserve so the consolation prize was to see them in rehabilitation pens.

Supper and breakfast were served in the large thatch roofed lodge complete with a roaring fire to warm up after the cold game drive. Dinner included such delicacies as ostrich steaks and eland sausages. We tried not to think too hard about the amazing animals we had seen while eating!