We made it home! After a very long couple days and a few delays we made it back safe and sound to PA. The journey home was an eventful one: three hour drive to Durban airport, flight to Johannesburg, two hour delay because of storms in the airplane, eight hours to Dakar, hour and a half layover because of security checks, another eight hours to Washington D.C., missed flight in the morning, mechanical issues on one plane and finally on another plane to get home...37 hours in all (plus longer for the two Iowa folks)!
Since we weren't able to update after the safaris I will now (from the comfort of my office!).
Saturday we drove to St. Lucia for our lake cruise and night drive. The lake cruise was two hours of hippos and crocs in their natural habitat. It was incredible to see just how huge the hippos are. The crocs were sunning themselves on the beach - a safe distance from us!
The night drive started out great - we saw a herd of zebra in a field, but after that there wasn't much else that we saw.
Sunday morning started early as we left the hotel at 5 a.m. and headed out for the all day game drive at the Hluhluwe/ Imfolozi Game Reserve. Around 6 a.m. the day started out with a giraffe and impala right away. Throughout the day we also saw rhinos, warthogs, zebras, elephant, cheetah, water buffalo, lions and baboons. It was fascinating to see all of these animals in the wild. We were hoping to see a large herd of elephants, but we were happy to see the one that we did. The only animal of the Big 5 (elephant, water buffalo, rhino, leopard, lion) that we didn't see was the leopard..a very successful day! The day ended around 4 p.m. as we headed back to the hotel to relax and get packed up.
The trip was truly amazing. To be able to travel this far to do such good work is a blessing. On behalf of the group, I thank all of you for your support and prayers throughout our travels.
I will be posting some photos of the house and our trip here on the blog, now that I have more availability (and speed!). Hopefully within the next week I'll get those up.
Until then - hamba kahle!
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