At 5:15 in the morning today, before the sun had even announced her presence, Christian and I went outside the comfortable guesthouse we're staying at, in order to go to an all-day safari. Not long after that we were inside the Toyota safari truck, inside Kruger National Park.
By 6:30, the sun was coming up, and as Lawrence our guide was explaining to us how hyenas protect their cubs by placing them in small dens so that predators cannot attack them, we heard a loud loud roar. It was a lion, and he roared from about a kilometre away, but we could hear him clearly, very clearly.
He was announcing the beginning of a new day, and that he was king of this day, in this habitat, the jungle. Lawrence looked at us with great excitment, started the truck, and drove right towards where the roaring came from. Here's what we saw:
By 6:30, the sun was coming up, and as Lawrence our guide was explaining to us how hyenas protect their cubs by placing them in small dens so that predators cannot attack them, we heard a loud loud roar. It was a lion, and he roared from about a kilometre away, but we could hear him clearly, very clearly.
He was announcing the beginning of a new day, and that he was king of this day, in this habitat, the jungle. Lawrence looked at us with great excitment, started the truck, and drove right towards where the roaring came from. Here's what we saw:
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