WOW!!!!! This place is AMAZING!! I am now settled in my new home for the next 12 days, which is Kwantu Private Game Reserve, about an hour's drive from Port Elizabeth. It's a beautiful reserve and the accomodation and hotel is wonderful! I have my own room with an en suite bathroom. There are 6 other volunteers here - all girls! - and we will be joined by another tomorrow.
I arrived at about 2pm and the volunteers were looking after a group staying here who had come off a cruise ship. This only happens occasionally and we will be back working in the reserve tomorrow or the following day.
I was shown around the 'town' (the reserve is like a small town and all the workers here live on site). There is a school, two churches, tennis courts, a cricket pitch, a shop / post office and the workers' houses.
I was also shown where they were holding 4 lion cubs and a tiger cub, all about 4-5 months old - AND I GOT TO PLAY WITH THEM!! The lion cubs were a bit shy but Ben, the tiger cub, bounded up to me and proceeded to nibble my legs, arms, shoulders and hand!! He is GORGEOUS! I'll get to play more with them while I am here. We also saw 2 new tiger cubs who are 2 days old! We will be helping fed them too - they have to be fed every 2 hours! And to top it all, we saw the keeper giving one of the adult tigers a shot of antibiotics - she wasn't best pleased!
Well, I have to go to dinner now - more tomorrow!
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Hi Sands, sounds like the trip is a success already and its only day 2 :-) Take loads of photos as i want to see all those wild animals nibbling ;-) Have fun, bye for now, Ilona
ReplyDeleteErm, tigers in Africa?! It's not a game reserve with only indigenous wildlife then... ;-)
ReplyDeleteSounds like fun de toute facon :-)