Day 12

Hello blog followers!

We starting off the day with a verrryyyy cold game drive in Aquila. We drove around for about an hour, and had yet to see any animals. We finally arrived to the lion area, and we saw about 8-9 lions. They were all walking so close to the safari truck, and we were able to take some beautiful pictures of the pride of lions! The lions started eating a bit of food further up the mountain, so our tour guide decided to move closer to the animals in order to get a better view of the feast! Unfortunately, one of the lioness's was not impressed that we were watching them eat, so she started to walk towards the truck, crouched down as if she was hunting, and was growling at us. The tour guide had to slowly back the truck up out of there before the lion attacked us! Very intense. After our near-death experience, we continued through the mountains, where we saw more hippos, springbuck, rhinos and zebra. As we were heading back to the resort, we ended up seeing what many of us were eager to see, a giraffe! He was quite far away from us, but Kristen was able to take some wicked pictures with her high tech camera! We headed back towards the resort and went into another blocked off section for animals; this area had cheetahs, leopards, crocodiles, and warthogs. All in all, the safari was absolutely unbelievable!

After the safari, we backed up the van, and made our way to our next destination, Hermanus. Along the way, we stopped a cute little shop in the middle of nowhere; we had a bit of lunch, and bought a ton of dried fruit and nuts. We arrived in Hermanus about 3 hours later, and we checked into our hostel, called Hermanus Backpackers. We decided to walk around the town and look fr whales in the Indian ocean. Although we didn't see any whales, we definitely enjoyed the beautiful views. We had a few drinks at a little pub close to water, and afterwards we headed back to the hostel, where the employees had prepared a beautiful braai for us; it was definitely one of the best meals of the trip! Finally, after a veryyy long day, we decided to call it a night.

Cheers!