Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Day Thirteen

Sunday, January 15th. SAFARI DAY!!!! We went to the Aquila game reserve about two hours from Cape Town on a safari! It was AMAZING!!! I have a whole bunch of pictures and I will add some videos of the animals as well.


Our safari guide! 
 Hippo!



 Zebras!

 Rhinos!
 Antelope!

 Ostriches




 Baby rhino!


 Springboks, the national animal of South Africa








 Elephants, who ended up play fighting and coming very close to the jeep









Amr, James, Mike and Moshe 

 The girls (Nathalie, Raquel, Erin, myself, Racheli, Marzela and Batya) drinking wine!
 Poacher Amr








Rhinos covered in mud to cool down. It was really hot outside!! 

 Wildebeests all the way up on the hill

















 This is when they fought over the donkey carcass, I will soon post a video of that.





 Sitting on top of the carcass so the other female couldn't get it from them.












 Giraffes


 Pumba!! Where's Timon?



 Crocodile














 The safari ranger actually went inside the enclosure with them and took pictures with all of our cameras. He hand reared them when they were cubs, he even pet one and made us all jealous!














The ostrich farm closed out our trip! It was an amazing day!

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