South Africa. Day 2

After a nice breakfast in the resort we pack and leave, on our way out we encounter some ostriches, but as soon as I get out of the car to take a picture of them they decide to run off, awesome -.-

Before heading to the next lodges, which are a 3h drive away we decide to visit the Blyde river canyon and once there we find a bunch of locals having their weekend barbecue, the smell was amazing. 
But it wasn't just barbecue and locals, we followed the track for a bit to find an incredible view over the valley. 

 So we get to the gates of the park, the Balule nature reserve, in which the lodges are. The guard tells us to continue straight for about 7 km and turn left whenever we reach a sign of the lodges, but of course no one listened to him, because we all knew our ways, no way we would get lost, right? Well we couldn't have been more off.

Just before getting to the lodges, literally 100 metres off, my dad says: We are way over 7km, we should go back to look for some signs, and so we did, we headed back, followed some random sign saying “Danrock” which wasn't the name of our resort, but it was the only sign we found, and as far as we knew danrock could be Afrikaans for lodges. Anyway, after more or less 45 minutes of driving around (keep in mind this is all on a gravel road) we see a game truck; the lodges had sent someone to save us, how shameful.

Luckily we got back just in time to go on the evening game safari:

Our driver introduced himself, Hamilton was his name, and we later found out that it was a very appropriate name, as he wasn't afraid of stepping on the gas pedal. Lucky was our tracker, which also happened to be very fitting, if you keep in mind all the animals we got to see.

Hyenas relaxing a bit 

We saw some hyenas taking a nap in the water, impalas, some gnu’s, and buffaloes! That’s 1 of the big 5 scrapped of the list, some giraffes who seemed to love the camera (it looked like they were posing for the pictures), some impalas (again, we saw so many of these) and an elephant hiding behind a bush, but our driver, as brave as he was, decided to get closer and he drove between the bushes, which gave us a very nice sight of him. That’s number 2 scrapped of the list. 

Buffalo with his loyal oxpecker 

Then Hamilton got a call on the radio and started racing through the bushes and trees, there was no stopping him. The reason was good though, we arrived at a group of lions!! Amazing! We found 3 young lions and 3 lionesses. Big 5 list: 3 out of 5!

Before dinner we grouped around a camp fire and we got surprised with a little show with African dancing.

The little intruder 

And to end the day, just before we went to sleep, we found a scorpion! Awesome you’d say, yes, generally I’d agree, but we found it in on the curtains, in our room, just next to our bed! And then they even told us that it was a very dangerous type, as it had small claws and a big tail, which apparently means, venomous.