5 days Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park

We had 5 really amazing and exciting days!

Every day we went on a "Pirsch" (safari). It was mostly exciting, but sometimes nothing happened for a long time. The most fun is when you discover the animals yourself (especially the "hunters" (predators: lions, cheetahs, leopards)), and don't arrive when there are already cars there. For example, we spotted two male lions ourselves and watched them all alone for a long time. Engine off, windows open. It was indescribably beautiful. 

The landscape here is simply beautiful. Red dunes, mostly white (sometimes deep) sand tracks, blue sky.

When someone comes towards you, they greet you friendly.

In the evenings, we always grilled very deliciously. We just have the best grill master. 

It was a bit eerie that in some of the camps the electricity went off from 22:00-5:00 and it was pitch dark. You really couldn't see your own hand in front of your eyes. One night, a bat even flew through the room, which really scared us at first. 

Otherwise, there were: 

Many giraffes

A Cape Cobra

3 lionesses sleeping on the sand track.

A lone lion on the road.

2 male lions together at the waterhole, which we observed for a very long time. They were lying in the shade of a tree, about 50 meters away, came to the waterhole to drink twice (with a 1:45 hour break in between). Then they also came and lay down next to us on the road, cuddled, it was very sweet to see, and then they lay down one after the other. So close! You could hear them panting and smell them.

A kill skeleton

Meerkats

Turtles

Wildebeest (gnu), hartebeest, kudu, springboks

Jackals

And 700m before the exit gate Twee Rivieren: a cheetah with its kill (springbok). Konstantin had wished for that so much.

And lots of birds!

And many other animals too!

The children liked opening the gates to the park.

Almost every day there was a little thunderstorm, and once there was a huge rainbow that we had never seen before. It didn't even fit on a photo.