I'm sitting in the American Lounge at Heathrow getting the last page of the blog finished. What an amazing trip this was. Sitting in the bush with such a wide array of animals was such a privilege. We loved our last camp, Thabamati. It is truly special. With only 4 tents, we had the whole camp to ourselves.
Its watering hole was big attraction.
And we finally spotted a Red-Bill Hornbill right by our lunch table.
Here are a few highlights of our last two game drives.
A young elephant nursing.
And finally we saw warthogs that weren't running away.
We were looking for Leopard on the evening game drive and instead found this male Cheetah--the second during our time in the Timbavati! He was sitting on top of a termite mound surveying the area for prey. This guy is magnificent.
After dark we found the 4 male lions we had seen the day before. Wow!
And during the morning drive we saw lots and lots of animals, but the most exiting was finding the male Cheetah in the road, miles from where he was the night before. We tracked him into a very bushy area and he went back on top of a termite mound.
Each place we visited we had a totem animal that characterized our visit. It was definitely the Cheetah in the Timbavati. Our trip ended at the airport in Hoedspruit with this cute, but very naughty Vervet Monkey.
What a marvelous adventure we had.
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