Kylie’s at it again! “Yesterday afternoon didn’t disappoint after all our awesome sightings. We had an amazing elephant sighting with a huge breeding herd playing in a small water pool right next to the road, throwing water all over themselces as well as each other, and then also a very large elephant bull without a tail in musth, right next to the road.

The zebra, impala, giraffe, klipspringer, rhino and crocodiles were also playing along all showing themselves to us but the highlight for us had to be the pack of wild dogs we saw. There were 16 of them including big puppies and they were just all lying in the road and then as it got cooler they all got energy and starting playing 5 meters from our vehicle. It was an amazing experience especially knowing how lucky we were considering how endangered they are.

Then this morning our luck continued when we were lucky enough to have the big 5 before breakfast. Had a leopard all to our selves just sitting in the bush a few meters off the road and then straight after that we found 6 male lions sleeping but after a while they started moving and we got to experience some lion love between them. We also had a total of 7 rhino and a big herd of buffalo and a couple of breeding herds of elephants.

The highlight of the trip for a lot of people was the dung beetle fight we witnessed. There were 3 males all fighting for one ball of dung and we were all amazed at how strong and vicious they got. Very entertaining!

We also had some cool birds like the southern ground hornbills, european beeeaters and guineafowl with brand new chicks. Another amazing day at the office!

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