There’s a harmony to life and the natural world and we need to work hard to restore the self-destruction we’ve imposed on it.Īfter an absolutely amazing experience at Kapama on safari we took a flight to the seaport city of Cape Town. For me personally, it was another reminder to be mindful of our environment and our planet, as well as respect the shared space us humans have on planet Earth with animals, no matter where we are or live. It’s hard to describe the joy and wonder of seeing African animals in their natural habitat. (A note for the reader – these were photographic safaris with quaint and close observations of the animals from an open-air vehicle at Kapama, there was no hunting of the wildlife involved.) At around 4pm we would head out again for our three-hour or so evening game drive and be back to the lodge for dinner around 7:30pm. The lodge had several swimming pools, bars, as well as a spa and gym. Once back to the lodge we would have a full breakfast and then be at our leisure until lunch, usually around 1pm. This wildlife arena is 13,000 acres and we instantly felt like we had escaped to a place away from time.įor the next three days, our schedule would see us up early around 5:30am for coffee and a small breakfast and a morning game drive out in the wild from 6am-9am. Then, we checked in to our lodge located within a private game reserve called Kapama. Next on our South Africa Safari Adventure was a short internal flight to Hoedspruit Airport near the Kruger National Park area of South Africa. The Mandela and Tambo law firm was the first one in the country to be run by Black partners. Then, we drove by the house that Desmond Tutu lived in nearby and in downtown Johannesburg saw Nelson Mandela’s law office. The inside hosts some original furnishings and memorabilia, including photographs, citations given to Nelson Mandela, and the world championship belt given to Mandela by Sugar Ray Leonard. It has bullet holes in the walls and the facade has scorch marks from attacks with Molotov cocktails (petrol bomb). We flew into Johannesburg and rested up for a couple of days, seeing the Mandela House Museum in the suburb of Soweto where Nelson Mandela lived from 1946-1962 before his long prison sentence for standing up against the apartheid government of that era. The house is a single-story red-brick matchbox built in 1945. Our South Africa Safari Adventure was a chance to see the Big 5 animals in their natural environment (lions, elephants, leopards, rhinos, and buffalos) as well as giraffes and other exotic African animals! It was finally here, our South Africa Safari Adventure.

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