Kapama Game Lodge Safari

I started composing this post while relaxing by the spa pool after my divine body wrap and massage treatment. The spa here is absolutely beautiful! From this pool, i have a view of the game park where I can 6-8 warthogs and there cute "bambinos" or baby warthogs as our ranger would say. Even though most people would probably say wart hogs are kinda ugly, I love them because they always remind me of pumba from lion king! The wart hogs are taking a dip in water to cool off since its probably 35 degrees today. I am dreading coming back to -30 degrees in a few days! That will be a 65 degree swing! As you may have noticed from this post, I am so incredible relaxed right now and just loving my surroundings. Nadia - wish we had done the safari together so we could have gone to the spa together! Although Adam usually enjoys the spa, he opted out this time due to his sensitive skin and heat rash.

Yesterday, we were at our favorite lodge of the 3, Kapama Karula, which is considered the boutique lodge of this game park. Again we stayed in a luxury tent which was a nice experience but there were a few more bugs than the night before that we didn't love. The best part about the room was the outdoor shower! Loved it but would be too scared to go at night! The food was fancier here and communal areas were very chi chi considering you are in the bush.

Today we moved to the Kapama river lodge which is more of the east African style sopa and sarina lodges - more of a large hotel. Also very nice but I think prefer the other 2 places we stayed at. Our guide Nelson at this lodge was so hilarious and we were sharing a safari car with a brazilian couple and a group of friends from India! Although we didn't see as many animals with Nelson, it was by far the most entertaining. In the changani culture of the people in this area, the men often have more than 1 wife and a lot of kids, where the multiples wives and respective children all live together! Our Rangers family consisted of 3 wives and 17 children! He says birth control in some cultures is still not accepted but he thinks that will change slowly as more people get educated. Unlike the other guides, he was sponsored to take a tourism course in London, Ontario and has travelled a bit. Some of the other rangers have never even been to Johannesburg even, which is 500 Km away from their home towns.

By our fourth game drive, we were lucky enough to have seen all of the animals we wanted to including cheetahs, leopards, white rhinos and more lions! We even got to see a baby cheetah that still had blood on it's face after a kill although we didn't get to see the kill itself! Safaris are a lot of fun and the lodge was great but the down side is that there are so many creepy crawlers that just cannot be controlled especially if it has rained recently! You will see the ugliest spiders and a million spider webs! You have to be careful not to run into the spider webs on the morning safari drives because the spiders will sometimes make webs that run from one tree to the tree on the other side of the dirt road or they will make webs from the grass on the ground to the trees above! Wiping spider webs off and ducking under them is something I will not miss, lol!