Today was Safari Day! We had to leave The Backpack at 6:40am but most of us slept on the 2.5 hour ride. I actually slept through the longest tunnel (4.5 kilometers) in the Southern Hemisphere.
We finally saw baboons! They were on the side of the highway!! We kept all the windows closed so none of us faced a monkey bite.
Inverdoorn is a game preserve and cheetah conservatory and our home for the day. At Inverdoorn, we saw four out of the "Big 5" animals on the safari. If you don't know what the Big 5 are, that's ok, because I didn't either. The Big 5 are the elephant, lion, rhino, leopard and buffalo. They're the Big 5 because they are all large, dangerous and clever -- which is why my petition to join and make it the Big 6 is now in motion. We saw all of them except for the leopard, which is nocturnal. We also saw giraffe, zebra, ostrich, wildebeest, springbok, cheetah and the top of a hippo who wasn't interested in coming out of the water.
It was a pretty full and exhausting day.
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