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 –

Cape buffalo with hazy eye

Elephant mud bath

Leopard

Baby elephant – tail removed by hyena

Leopard full yawn

Giraffe tongue

Tourist

Oxpeckers

Mother and child zebra

Vultures – cape buffalo

Kudu and Nyala in our backyard

Leopard

Leopard

Zebra through the trees

Donald Trump warthog

Hippopotamus

Thorns

Mongoose family

Leopard

Warthog family

Vervet monkey has an epiphany

Leopard lick

Lion

Young hyenas

Atop termite mound

Oxpeckers on rhinoceros leg

Giraffe pose

African wild dogs

Baboon – backyard

Nile crocodile

Lilac-breasted roller

Sunset

Mother and child

Sand river through MalaMala Game Reserve

Blue Wildebeast

Rhino covered in oxpeckers

Lion

Lizard

Hornbill (Zazu from Lion King)

Lion getting shade from Land Rover

Elephant dust bath

MalaMala Game Reserve

Kingfisher

Yawn

Vultures in tree

Lion enjoys zebra

Giraffe chews jawbone for minerals

Oxpeckers

Zebra

Sunrise

Hooded Vulture

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

Leopard licks lips

Leopard mid-yawn

Wild dog kiss