Day 44,45 Bushbaby - Ballito

January 22, 2016
Today we planned to go and stay with our friend Josh who me met on our Angola trip he crossed West Africa and has a blog about it http://goingnowhereveryslowly.com/. So we were heading southwards near the coast. We crossed few steel bridges:

And visited Isimangaliso National Park:

What a big difference after Serengeti! Look at these roads! And they gave us a map! For free!!! :)))

We were still in forestry region:

Our first animals - warthog family:

We took a smaller road to see the campsite neat St Lucia Lake:

And here is was St Lucia lake again! The campsite was closed due to lack of water. There hasn't been raining since many months and the lake has significantly dried. All hippos and crocodiles were gone...

Look who is hiding in the trees!

Zebras in the forest!

Then we came across many giraffes - they were running, playing with each other:

Lots of giraffes:

And hippos in the water!

Zebras again:

How big is giraffe if you compare with a zebra :D

Who did this!

And very great path walks in the park, beautifully made. There were toilets, water, soap, signs and information:

Here nicely done lookout:

 Another view of the lake, dried out completely:

And here they are Rhinos!!! We saw 7 rhinos in the water:)

Nice roads and signs again:

Then we drove to the other side of the lake, the road next to the sea:

Watch your belongings :)

Went down to the beautiful Indian ocean:

Buffaloes in the grass:

Another view of the St Lucia lake:

Some bucks:

 In St Lucia town right in the river! Hippo :)

So we had a great time in this part of South Africa and were heading towards Durban. We visited our friend, had a great time, good food, good drinks, stunning view of Indian Ocean. 

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