We planned to leave at 10am, but best laid plans nearly always have a habit of going wrong. Sure enough as I checked the car I noticed oil leaking from the front of the engine. Jingers was working next to my car checking the de Hullus Landrover to make sure no more wheels came loose. He came over to look at my Toyota and quickly discovered a leaking power steering hose. Thankfully it had only just happened and not much oil had leaked away. An hour later and it was repaired.
We left the Sabi River Sun resort by way of their hippo pool. There must have been at least a dozen hippos, both adults and very young ones, all wallowing in the mud. It made a strange site; the hippos in the pool and the resort's golfers walking close by!
Hippos at watering hole at the Sabi River Sun resort hotel
An hour's drive and we arrived at our five star 'Earth' lodge at Sabi Sabi. A wonderful apartment facing the bush and a watering hole where we can hear the hippos bellowing.
Four o'clock and we were off on our first safari. Six of us in an open Landrover with our guide Sven and a tracker, set off round the park. Three hours of touring and we saw, Cape buffalo , giraffe, nyala (a beautiful deer) as well as numerous impala and water buck.
Tomorrow we set off on our second safari at 6am, so another early start.
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