After a heavy few days of immersing ourselves in information overload about South Africa's history, apartheid and the struggle leading up to the 1994 elections. Feeling the awkwardness of being a white English person here, taking it all in and trying to unscrabble it all in my head I was relieved to have a day off from history and culture and have a day of wild animals. We visited Addo national park, 168,000 hectares of bush and scrub land filled with an array of exciting wildlife. We got so close to an Elephant andwatched him taking a drink from a water hole, we just stopped short of running over adung beetle who was rolling his ball of elephant dung accross the track tripping and losing his grip a few times on his way. Zebras chilling in the distance and plenty of beautiful Kudus, a deer type creature with amazing markings on its face and large cute bambi type ears, the males with long twisting horns. A buffalo carrying the weight of an enormous pairs of horns on his sweet face, looking like he was wearing pig tails with a parting.
Ostrichs, glossy starlings (irridescent blue), warthogs and loads of other birds I couldn't identify.
Amazing....
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