We are back online after being with limited Wifi during our safari. Yes!!! Finally our African safari!
On Tuesday afternoon, we arrived at Elephant Plains lodge after two flights and a 3am wake up. We were excited to go on our first game drive early that evening after we settled into our cute room.
On our first drive we met our guide, Andrew, our tracker, Dion, and the rest of the group we would be with during our stay. We met Nancy, Bill, Dick and Michelle who were all traveling together and a couple on their honeymoon, Alexandra and JP from Spain. We all hit it off right away and had many laughs and jokes together. We couldn't have asked for a better group and felt extremely lucky to be with the best ones at the lodge!
Throughout our safari we saw many different animals and were amazed by how close we could get to them. Andrew would go the extra mile to find the animals we wanted to see no matter the path we had to take. We had to have a lot of patience to give the animals time to be more active or to catch that perfect photo. Dion sacrificed himself a lot by being pushed up to trees while we could get a good view of the animals. We were lucky and got to see the Big 5 during our 3 days: rhinos, leopards, elephants, buffalo, and lions. Other animals we saw were giraffe, wild dogs, hippos, hyenas, and zebras.
When we were leaving, we were all sad to be saying goodbye as we now had new friends and many wonderful memories together! We are so lucky to have social media so we can all keep in contact with one another. This African safari was an absolutely amazing experience that we will remember forever! We wanted to cry because it's over... but we are choosing to smile because it happened! South Africa, you have a special place in our hearts!
We have now made it to Dubai and I will give another update soon!
Signing Off,
Jen and Ashley
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