Day 4 Part II - The epic drive...

After our nap and tea we headed out again. This would turn out to be the most amazing drive yet. We found the lions.... But first we saw elephants, red lechwe and baboons... 
They Caltex with his amazing tracking skills found the lions. They were resting and hidden in the bushes. 
they relocated their napping spot twice while we were watching them. They walked right if front of the truck, not caring that we were there. There were 11 of them - at least 2 males and the rest were females. They were all young. 
We were so close to them it was amazing. I was later told that the lions view the truck as a big box and if you keep your body in the vechicle and don't move around they don't know what to make of the box. But if you put hand out then they become curious.  While we where sitting there watching the lions, more elephants, baboons, giraffes and warthogs that came walking into the area. 

The baboons were vocalizing to the other baboons that there was danger near. When the baboons are in the trees they are safe from the lions.

And off in the distanct there were impala's that the lions started to become intereted in. However eventually a warthog became their next meal. 


The warthog did not stand a chance. He ran into the burrow and the lions pulled him out. 


They were all on the warthog pulling him apart. One lion ripped a leg off and ran to the side. I acutally video taped the hunt. The sound was so intense. The lions were fighting over parts of this tiny animal. And once again we were with in feet of them. I have close up pictures of the bloody faces of the lions, but I didn't think you'd want to see them. 

At sunset we left and went back to camp for dinner and drinks. We had filet and mango kabobs with veggies, so good... 

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