Addo Elephant Park

We stopped for a couple of days in Addo. We drove through it the first evening and then took a horseback ride through it the second morning. We got to see a lot of animals, but mostly different kind of antelope. In these pictures you can see some zebras, a tortoise, a warthog, an elephant that is very far away, and a female kudu. The male kudu had spiral horns that were really cool. In fact, we camped outside of the park and when we were driving in the morning there was a huge male kudu that was running right in front of us on the rode. It was amazing. As I am thinking this animal is so beautiful, Matt says "I'd sure like to have his skin." Sick. He's been tying a lot of flies lately and apparently the hair from a kudu would make great flies.

We camped out on this farm that was about 10 miles outside of the park, literally in the middle of nowhere. We got there in the dark and were completely by ourselves. We set up camp and then got in the tent and started eating dinner. Then Matt says "Can you believe we are camping in the middle of Africa?" Right then, we hear this terrifying noise which is one animal attacking another animal and it seemed really close. It went on for a good 5 minutes. I told Matt we needed to get the food out of the tent and I wasn't going to do it. The noises went on to an extent all night. We debated for a long time what we thought they were and we think they were some sort of monkeys, but we'll never know. They do have lions and leopards in the area, but they didn't sound like cats.