Pilot Lindy's video: South Africa Experience - Kruger Park Safari VLOG 62: Lion King in real life

// KRUGER PARK AT IT'S BEST: Living the Lion King-dream during our Safari in South Africa! A lifelong dream came true: We visited South Africa! We were there for 12 days and really made the most out of it!! This video is the third of the three South Africa VLOGs that I made and is all about our Day 9-12 of our South African Adventure! DAY 9: We woke up early and headed to Port Elizabeth Airport where we had our domestic flight to Johannesburg. We then drove for more than 6 hours from Johannesburg to our hotel just before the Paul Kruger Gate. DAY 10: We woke up in the car, took a shower and got ready for the Safari! We arrived at the Paul Kruger Gate and as everything was already booked, the paperwork went very quickly and just after entering the park we saw a mommy elephant with her baby! We drove to Skukuza Rest Camp for breakfast. Then continued our trip towards Lower Sabie, the rest camp where we were going to stay for the next 2 nights. On the way we saw many springboks, elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, baboons and vervet monkeys. Welcome to Kruger! When we had finished setting up our tent, we got ready for the Sunset Drive, which was organised by the rest camp. It is a relatively cheap option to not book a private tour and still go out of the rest camps after opening hours. We loved it, the guides are very knowledgeable and know how (and where) to spot the animals. We were so amazed to see two lions just next to the road! DAY 11: We had the alarm at 4 o'clock as our Sunrise Drive started at 4:30am! It was beautiful to see the world waking up. More and more birds started to sing, the hippo's went back into the water after they had been eating grass the whole night, the zebra's were running to go to the nearest waterhole and we saw them drinking all together! Just before returning to the rest camp, our guide was told that there was a crocodile in a lake nearby, so we drove there to watch! The rest of the day we went out on our own, we got to see a rhino far away. The only rhino we have seen. They are not indicated on the maps with the colored magnets, to reduce the chance of poaching. We were looking for a leopard that would have completed the Big Five, but couldn't find any. We talked with a couple that had seen already 3 of them in the past two days. It really depends if you're lucky to be at the right place at the right time!  After dinner we went to do the night drive! It was a bit more difficult to take pictures and photos in the night, but we could hear the sounds of many animals and it was very impressive! DAY 12: We woke up in our tent from the heat! In February it is summer in South Africa and during the day it was around 40 degrees in the Krugerpark. At night, the temperature didn't really go down as much as we'd hoped! After breakfast, Diego overheard people saying they spotted a cheetah not so long ago! Diego asked where he found it and we got into the car right away to see if the cheetah was still there. We were lucky, we found it quite soon! There were two cheetahs laying under a tree and we got very good close ups from both of them! We were told that it only happens a few times per year that the cheetahs come this close to the road! That kind of made up for the fact that we hadn't seen any leopards. Via Pretoriuskop rest camp we drove back towards the gate, as we still had to drive about 6 hours to get to Johannesburg Airport and catch our flight at 11:55pm. What an AMAZING experience, we are sure we will come back some time in the future! Thank you for watching!! Have you seen part one yet? A helicopter flight over the Cape Peninsula, visiting Penguins in Boulders Beach, riding horses near giraffes and zebras in Stellenbosch.. Click here! https://youtu.be/C6b4Xv-53Ys And how about part two? Spotting Elephants and Lions at Addo National Park, Watching whales, dolphins and seals at Plettenberg Bay, Hiking the Tsitsikamma waterfall trail and close up with Zebra's in De Hoop Nature Reserve - This really is the Garden Route at it's best! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngsG4cvzldI Enjoy watching!! // A B O U T M E For the ones that don't know me yet, I am an airline pilot, I live in Italy and I fly around Europe! I have an Instagram account @pilot_lindy where I upload all my adventures and since one year I upload VLOGs on Youtube to share my life with you! It would be my pleasure to show you around the places I visit! If you like to know more about being a pilot or about my travels, visit my brand new website www.pilotlindy.com, where I share all information about how I became a pilot and all of my travel adventures! Don't forget to put the THUMBS UP if you like this video and you can always subscribe to my channel to see my flying life as an airline pilot on a weekly basis! Visiting new cities, countries and continents and sharing all of it with you! // L I N K S http://www.pilotlindy.com http://www.youtube.com/pilotlindy http://www.instagram.com/pilot_lindy