Roar

On our first day we went to the rhino and lion park which was neat because there isnt much vegetation so you can see the animals really well. They had Rhinos, cape buffalo, antelope, vultures, and there is a whole predator camp there but we didnt have a chance to go to it. The biggest downside was probably the dust and the rental car had like no seal so the dust got all over the stuff in the back. It was funny since at one point the kid we were with was getting really nervous since the Rhino was staring at us there was also a very cute baby rhino.

Day two we were still at the rhino and lion park and we went to go play with baby lion cubs in their animal cheche. There was 2 white lion cubs2 tiger cubs and a brown lion cub all about 6 weeks old and a brown lion cub that was like 4 months old. The little cubs were nervous at first but the big one got right in there biting and climbing

I thought he played rough until the little cubs started to play the bigger cub definitely knew only to bite clothes while the little guys wanted to latch onto skin like they do with each other I still have bite marks!

While there we also got to pet a grown cheetah! He was pretty chill just hanging out letting us scratch his head. And then we went to the reptile room and the guy that took us around the cats let us hold a python :)

The next three days we spent in Kruger national park which was one of the safari places and I heard from a lot of south africans that its the best place. We saw a ton on animals there and went on a sunrise drive and a sunset drive--it was sooo cold. but because of that we got to see some of the cats (leopard and african wild cat) In Kruger we saw all of the big five(hardest animals to hunt--elephant, rhino, cape buffalo, leopard and lion) except for lions. Our second day there our rental car broke down and we had to go meet a guy for him to bring us a new one. We got a nine passenger van as our replacement (but it was from mercedes so it drove pretty well) and then because of a time crunch we had to drive outside the park and get escorted in. While we were in Kruger we stayed at little bungalows and while a bit cold they were really nice (same for the chalet at rhino and lion park) and whats really cool about it since there were only 4 of us this was just as cheap as camping would have been.

After we left kruger (and got hopelessly lost since bad gps coordinates put us in the middle of a field) we went to this little town to go zip-lining. THis was a really cool experience and because I could feel the harness holding me up I wasn't scared at all even the 11 year old with us could do it on his own. Our guides were really fun and made it so we had all of the fun and none of the work. Then we went to a crocodile farm there we got to see giant crocs and they had them roar for us learn a lot about croc farming walk around in the little crocodiles and hold a baby crocodile I even picked one up off the ground.

these are nile crocodiles the one Im holding is about 2 and the ones were standing with are 2-4 they group them more by size than age. The farm is where people get the skin for things like bags and they also sell croc meat. This may seem mean but the farm gives the crocs a 60% survival rate as opposed to the 3% they get in nature. They have about 200 breeding crocs.

Our last day in South Africa was really different from the others, we stayed our last night at claires of sandton (if you're ever there I recommend it, this was a very nice b&b) We went to a place called jozi x where we got to play on a bunch of equipment like a tight rope a climbing wall one of those balancing ladders under them all was like a bouncy castle type of thing. Then we went to the golden reef city which was like a so so amusement park--at least coming from an american point of view.