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February 14, 2024
I find it difficult to truly express how fantastic an experience was our four night stay in the Motswari lodge. We arrived shortly before 3pm, had lunch and by four were off on our first game drive. In the first couple of hours we had already seen a leopard up a tree with its kill, a mother and calf rhino and a male lion. By the end of the fourth day we had added multiple sightings of all the big five including three different prides of lions, a very rare pack of African wild dogs (only 450 left in the Kruger National Park, a place the size of Wales, Hippos, crocs, zebras, hyenas, various types of antelopes, a family of warthogs trotting along in front of the verandah of the lodge, a troupe of elephants in a column just to the right of the lodge, African wild cat, a honey badger. Most of these sightings were at a range of between five and ten metres. Just mind blowing. We came across a pride of ten lions eating a recently killed buffalo - we were less than 10m away from them. At one stage we found ourselves slap bang in the middle of a herd of elephants chomping away at the foliage. We just sat there watching. I'm missed out lots of sightings. So many it really was fantastic. On our last evening we even stopped by the grassless football pitch to watch the Motswari staff football team the "Zebras" playing a game against a visiting team. Two of the visitors shared a pair of trainers - one wearing the left show and the other the right. Even the evening where we had to abandon the drive because of a thunderstorm and rain of biblical proportions turned out ot be great as we got to the bar early, the staff lit a fire and we sat watching England v Wales rugby match before dinner. Oh and that was the night the elephant strolled by across the lawn in front of us! The whole stay was made better by the knowledge and friendliness of our guide Jeremy and tracker Hendry and indeed by all the other staff in the lodge. They were all great. The lodge facilities themselves were perfect for the purpose. They even have an infinity pool where you can just sit watching the animals stroll by. I didn't think I'd use it much thinking there would be a lot of insects around it, this being "the jungle" and all. If there was one area they could improve on I can't think of it. It was one of the best holidays of my life and I'm already looking at when we might be able to return. Thank you Motswari