Safari

I’m waist deep in footage from the South African photo safari we went on last week at MalaMala Game Reserve next to Kruger National Park. Here are a few videos and some of my favorite photos so far –

Elephant and rhinoceros mud bath (safe for all stomachs) –

Lions vs. vultures (warning: a little bit of raw meat) –

Overstuffed lions try to protect the leftovers of a Cape buffalo meal from hungry and persistent vultures.

Zebra feast (warning: medium graphic but super interesting. Noisy eaters!) –

Another Land Rover pulled up behind us and a woman said, “Wait, what are they doing?! Are they eating a zebra?! I do NOT want to see that. I thought they were just hanging out!”

Photos –

Devil’s horns – got many of these stuck in my shoe

Hornbill (Zazu from Lion King)

Giraffe chews jawbone for minerals

Lizard

Donald Trump warthog

Tourist

Atop termite mound

Oxpeckers

Leopard

Elephant mud bath

Hooded Vulture

Wild dog kiss

Nile crocodile

Kingfisher

Vultures – cape buffalo

Warthog family

Mother and child zebra

Kudu and Nyala in our backyard

Young hyenas

Lilac-breasted roller

Cape buffalo with hazy eye

Blue Wildebeast

Vervet monkey has an epiphany

Leopard lick

Lion

Leopard licks lips

Baboon – backyard

Leopard

Mongoose family

Zebra

Thorns

Sand river through MalaMala Game Reserve

Baby elephant – tail removed by hyena

Hippopotamus

Leopard mid-yawn

Vultures in tree

Yawn

Mother and child

Zebra through the trees

Rhino covered in oxpeckers

Leopard full yawn

Giraffe tongue

MalaMala Game Reserve

Oxpeckers on rhinoceros leg

Sunset

Oxpeckers

Sunrise

Elephant dust bath

African wild dogs

Leopard

Giraffe pose

Lion

Lion enjoys zebra

Lion getting shade from Land Rover

Leopard