Wanderlusting in South Africa

Sabelo came to Lomahasha to fetch me.  On the last day we were there, we went to the Hlane Game Reserve—the national game reserve of Swaziland—the one the king goes to once a year to hunt in in order to prove his dominance.  Our guide was a jerk at times, and was pretty careless at other times—but I think we all had a great time.  We saw rhino, warthog, elephant, nyhala, lion, antelope, giraffe, and hippos (though they were mostly underwater).  And we saw all of these just from our 4x4—with only a simple canvas netting between the animals and us.  Most of them we saw very close.  The hippos, like I said, were in the water—and pretty far away.  But everything else was just next to us—even the lion was only about 15-20 ft away. Me and rhinos:

Rhino w/ birds:

giraffes:

one of the best pics I’ve ever taken:

I loved this elephant.  He just stood there totally chill and kept eating:

lion: