Greetings from sunny South Africa!
My name is Pieter, and I am one of the guides at Sunway Safaris (thats me on the back right hand side:) ).
At the Tropic of Capricorn
I recently came back from a Cape Town to Victoria Falls trip. The diversity of landscape and people we experienced each day was amazing – from watching the sun set over the dunes in the Namibian desert, to living in a San (Bushman) hut, and travelling in a moroko in the Delta in Botswana.
One of my highlights was camping in the Delta. What a pleasure! Early mornings and late evenings sitting around the camp fire, while the days were spent exploring the island. We came across fields of zebra, impala, wildebeest and giraffe. The feeling of approaching these animals on foot gives you a sense of awe, and I felt it especially when we cam across a herd of elephants just beyond the lake 40m away from where we were standing!
Another memorable moment was in Zambia on the lion walk. We started the day early, around about 6 o’clock. After a short safety briefing we headed to the spot where we would be meeting our new hiking partners. As we walked around the corner, there they were. The lion is personally my favourite animal, so I was overjoyed to see them so close. There were two males and one female that were about 14 months old, and we were told that they are heading to the wild within the next 10 months. Within about ten minutes they weren’t in much of a mood for walking, but no one seemed to mind. The three lions had a wonderful time rough-housing with each other, and when they tired out, I had the opportunity to touch one of the males. 
Hope to see you soon on our next trip!
Pieter
