the weather took a turn on this day and it was much colder that we all expected. in fact, it was freezing my arse off because we started the day with an early morning drive before the sun even got up. my face was smacked with iced cold winds as the 4×4 vehicle drove on and i almost couldnt feel my fingers at one point in time. i wasn’t joking! thankfully, my toes werent facing the same fate. i was seated on the first row, and whenever the vehicle moved, my teeth chattered and my hair whipped angrily across my face. like the previous times, we drove around and hunted…

warning. super long entry ahead! we started our day 3 adventure journeying out to world-renowned kruger national park. it sprawls across 20,000 sq km of hot, flattish lowveld terrain in the far northeast of south africa and ranks among the finest game sanctuaries in the world, with all roads, rest camps and other man-made features accounting for only 2% of the park’s area. the rest is pure wildnerness and no other sanctuary in Africa can match the numbers and variety of life forms. its home to nearly 150 kinds of mammals (including the Big 5), more than 500 bird species, 112 reptile types, 49 types of fishes and 34 amphibian…