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"It' much easier to rise when you know you will share the dawn with such wonders as zebras... lion... elephant... rhino..."

-Alan and Liz Cropper

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Wildlife such as zebra, lion and cheetah are abundant in this sanctuary of wildlife

‘THROUGH THE EYES OF A GUEST'
It is so much easier to rise at 5.30am when you know that you will share the dawn with such wonders: zebras posing themselves carefully so that their beautiful lines are shown to advantage; a bushbaby caught out in the daylight by the amazingly acute vision of Dinamos (the smile on legs who is our tracker); lions on their kill; a Caracal, rarely seen, stalking its prey right under our noses; wildebeest, who have not two IQ to rub together, lying down in the sun all facing the same way, so that predators can walk up and down the line to make their selection at ease; an ant invasion of a termite colony, a tumultuous fight to the death, with the termites organizing themselves into defensive groupings, their pincers to the fore.

Then, just as the start of hunger bites on the tummy, a stop for a mini-breakfast out in the bush. A table is set up. Fruit, muesli, tea, coffee and fruit juice appear. Ample to see the edge off our appetites, but not enough to affect Brunch, taken on our return to the Royal. A wonderful selection of imaginative foods including, I‘m glad to see, Eggs and Bacon.

A few hours to recover from the morning's ordeal, spent either on our own suite's deck by
the plunge pool, or in one of the open rooms created within the Lodge, and then it's High
Tea at 3pm, a rather substantial 'little something' to keep us going through to Dinner.

The evening Game Ride brings 35 elephants playing in a water hole like it’s the last day of

term, 4 Rhino as scared of us as we are of them, another Lion on another kill, Wildebeest, Giraffe, more posing Zebras and a magical finish, an 'owl hoot', which causes Dinamos and Riaan to turn the Landcruiser round, retrace our tracks and reveal that the 'owls' were in fact a Wild Dog pack tumbling over each other in an end of day play/hunt rehearsal.

Then not the normal return to dinner at the Royal that evening, but being landed on the lower-most deck where a table for two is set up, over-looking the Lodge's own water hole, with candles lit all the way up to and around the main lodge. The Lodge's staff sing their way down to us. Our Barman is named Evans, which I claim makes him Welsh and I allege, might explain everybody's ability to sing and dance so well. Dinner, as are all the meals, is beautifully cooked and exquisitely presented, our only worry being that there is too much!

Back to the suite, where on that particularly special evening we discover a path of rose petals takes us to a candle-lit bath and find a bottle of champagne ready in an ice bucket. In due course, sleep - and then we’re ready for the magic of the following morning's Game Ride.

A day to stay in our memories for ever.

Alan and Liz Cropper