Some pictures and a slightly embarrassing confession at the end.
At Marakele, there was no room in the inn. For camping. But they did have a safari tent free. I was forced into Luxury! In Tlope tented camp. A big tent on a raised wooden deck, en-suite bathroom, overlooking the water, mountains as a backdrop. Sometimes you just gotta grin n bear things. Flycatchers – Tit ( fantailed), Pallid
Green Woodhoopoe
Brown-crowned Tchagra
Chats – Buffstreak, Mocking, Familiar, Sickle-wing;
Buntings – Cape bunting, Golden-breasted, Lark-like;
Slender mongoose. Cheetah. Eles. Buffalo. Klipspringer. Rhino square-lipped.
Slight Blush Called For?
I wrote I’d never heard of Marakele National Park! Then I read my own 2003 blog post: ‘Spent three nights in the Marakele National Park while we waited for our binoculars to be courier’d to Thabazimbi . . ‘
I remembered then a lovely pic we had taken of Jess (5) and Tom (20 months) taking themselves to the ablution block.
. . so I went looking for that ablution block and found it:
~~oo0oo~~