Cover your ears and drive!!!!!!

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That's exactly what I said to our safari driver this afternoon!

We finally made it to Kruger national park, checked in at the lodge and quickly got ready for our last safari.

We got a late start for our sundowner safari in Kruger and people in our group kept throwing names of animals they would like to see: cheetahs, hyena, lions, leopards, COUGARS! And I might even heard koala! Lol... The list was big... And unrealistic!

After two days of amazing game drives the expectation for our Kruger sundowner was very very high! Our tour guide, Simon, was showing us springbok and all the small animals and May had to explain that we have seen many of them so he could skip them and get to the good stuff.

We started our drive around 5pm so we pretty much started the safari by stopping, checking out the sunset and having a drink! Sunset was phenomenal!!! The sky looked like it was on fuego!!! Jaja

Leslie and I at an attempt of getting a nice picture with the sunset!

And then it transformed to the most beautiful colors ever...

Here we are In our echo africa safari jeep!

Our drive was supposed to end around 7pm but by 7 we had seen nothing but springboks, waterboks, and a whole lot of grass! I got to hold the big flashlight and swing it from left to right, down the grass and up the trees to find animals. I finally spotted a rhino and I screamed "RHINO" and proceeded to show it to people! Well, I got too excited and screamed! Jajaja and Simon did not tell me what to do after I spotted an animal so apparently I scared It! Jaja Simon took the flashlight from me and he proceeded to drive and swing the flashlight around... I guess I'm not moving to Africa to be a safari guide! Jajaja

We kept driving back and forth with no luck! At one point I even thought that we might not see anything but a nice sunset. Many safari trucks kept driving past us and nobody had found anything. Then a truck finally spotted a leopard so we turned around! We got to the leopard and it was simply AMAZING (this is my favorite word, in case you haven't figured that out!). There were two leopards, a mom and a cub... The first time we saw the second leopard was when it approached the other one and gave it a hug! So freaking cute... The whole jeep went "awwww"... Then they started playing together, it was kind of a gentle chase... One would go away and the other one would move slowly, chase it, hug it and then do it all over again! This went on for about 20 mins until they decided to go away! We were all amazed by the leopards and even Simon said " you guys don't know how lucky you are"... It was beautiful and magical at the same time! Well worth the three hours sitting in the jeep!

(Here is an attempt at capturing the leopard at night)

On our way out of the park we found a herd of buffaloes and then some more rhinos!

When we got back to the lodge (after being scared by buffaloes near the gate) Simon apologized for being so late but we all appreciated his extra time and trying really hard to find some animals for us :-)

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