Early to rise again, we were going to do a one day full-on .
It was incredibly fun, gliding through the narrow streams, sliding down all the rockpools and jumping off a 3, 7 and 8 metre cliff!
See Anice jumping, arms spread out as we were instructed to do.Well organized with juice and coffees and biscuits at the end of our journey, we managed to keep everyone together and not have any serious incidents.
See Matt blowing into the horn of a male kudu to welcome everyone to the community tour.
The chief was elsewhere "at a meeting", and so we greeted the second in line, his brother. See pic of him weaving something on his throne.
I was not too impressed with the whole set-up. Our guide, though very knowledgeable, was obviously reciting from a previously memorized text.
Even meeting the Shangoma of the village (a woman wearing a frilly wig with all her magic objects) was a rehearsed event where she would say no more than three words describing certain objects in front of her.
As if on cue and without missing a beat, our guide would jump in and burst into this long, elaborated speech about what was supposedly just stated in 3 words.
Driving back, we encountered more excitement as we took some backroads by mistake and ran over a black mamba - the largest venomous snake in Africa, and the second venomous in the world (after the King Cobra)!
Its one bite contains enough venom to kill 20-40 grown men!
We quickly did a U-Turn to snap a picture, careful not to roll down our windows too much.
After getting lost and realizing we were doing one huge loop, we passed the same section of the road but didn't see the mamba there anymore. It must've slithered away into the tall grass. Phew!
Apparently they are quite rare to spot so we were lucky. We hoped our luck would continue into tomorrow and we would see a lion or two in Kruger.
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