Kruger Park – Lions?

On our way to Kruger Park we spent the night in a town called Glencoe (where people seemed very surprised to have tourists stop). We stayed at the LaLaLaPha Hotel and were treated to 10 C temperatures! This was shocking – we weren’t prepared for this! Cullen and I played pool and embarassed Canadians everywhere with our poor skills. Most of our competitors only spoke Afrikaans, so that made for a slightly different experience than usual (although I can’t say that was responsible for my terrible playing).

Next we went to Nelspruit, where Cullen redeemed himself by winning at Blackjack at Casino Emnotweni…

Almost at Kruger, we stayed one night in a lodge at Hazyview…

Then on to Kruger where we slept in rondavals (round huts with thatched roofs) and got to have about 2 days of driving through the park. This ended up being a whole lot more fun than I think any of us expected. We saw a lot of animals (and got pretty good at seeing them before being told what was there). On our last morning, our guide was quite pleased to finally be able to bring us to where the lions were…

And, the weather was hot! Really hot! We weren’t used to this! The experience was great. I hadn’t known that it would be so relaxing to be that close to animals (and that I would really find it exciting to see a giraffe in the trees!).