The morning drive was not even close to the success we had yesterday! Finding big 4 in such a short period of time was very lucky so to balance things out we had a more quiet morning today! We saw many "small" animals such as impala, kudu, waterbuck, baboons and tons of birds!

The most amazing part of the drive was when we encountered a herd of elephants munching on tree bark! It was magnificent to see how they use their trunk and feet to get the bark off the tree! 

Here are smaller animals... I love the toilet sit butt on the waterbuck!

May and I's (is that grammatically correct?!?!) favorite bird... A very colorful bird, they can have up to 14 colors... BEAUTIFUL

It was a quiet ride, I even got to take a 45 min nap on the bumpy safari jeep! 

Here are our amazing safari guides: Jimmy and Collence

And the three of us during the morning coffee stop in the wild :-)

After game viewing we had the afternoon for ourselves so I napped some more and hung out with the girls until it was time to go on our afternoon game ride.

Once again we had a quiet but exciting ride! We were on the lookout for a leopard in order to complete the big 5! Jimmy had some pressure to live up to our standards and deep inside we knew he would not disappoint :-)

We started the ride by seeing "regular" animals, tons of impalas, springboks, and waterbuks! One of the ladies even nicknames springboks "Mc Donald's animals" because they are everywhere and we are more than happy to skip them and move along!

After about 2 hours of bumpy ride we finally found a leopard... Sitting quietly waiting for to be admired:

Look what we found up a tree...

Seeing a springbok up in a tree was one of the funniest highlights of the trip! One of the ladies from the tour thought that the springbok made his way up there all by itself so we came up with all sorts of jokes around flying springboks!!! Jajajajaja poor Sherrill we have been making fun of her and the flying springbok for 3 days already!!! We were hysterically laughing at her and I even felt a little bad, she kept saying "I don't know these things!" Jajajajaja... Simply hilarious!!!

After seeing the leopard we were all "happy campers" (if there is such thing as happy campers! Camping is pretty miserable! Jajaja unless is luxurious camping :) ) and it was time for sun downers :-) yeay!

On our way back to the lodge we found a big mama elephant and her baby on the road; it was already dark and we couldn't go so Jimmy started to make noise with the engine and the big elephant moved. she got really mad and started to make noises; she was most likely trying to protect her baby but it looked like she was ready to attack us. We quickly left and the safari jeep behind us apparently encountered a very angry elephant!

When we got back to Simbavati we had a traditional African brai (or bbq) in the back with a huge fire... I had the vegetarian option but tried the Ostrich carpaccio and it tasted like smoked salmon!!! Not bad!