We were all up by 4.00am and ready to leave by 0500am, excited by what the day might bring in Kruger National Park. On the hours journey to Orpen Gate Ionna snoozed while the rest of us rested! We arrived at the gate at about 0550am and waited with about six to eight other vehicles to get into the park - the queue behind us grew. Becky who has done this before suggested that while she parked the van I ran out and got in the queue with the money and filled in form...

We left earlier this morning so we could get to our, as promised to Ionna, flatter walking spot. We walked for a couple of hours and saw and heard some really interesting things -garden,and the much hairier, baboon spiders, a 4-5 inch long wasps nest with small wasps, a giant african land snail - in full motion - listened to a cacophony of hornbills, watched several dung beetles frantically taking pieces of Impala dung into their holes -a little mean to the impal...