Day four - The lion brothers stole the show
If I had trouble sleeping the first night there was nothing compared to this night, all night I heard load roaring from lions. Christian sleeps like a rock so he did not understand anything when I lyrically told him about the night in the morning.
Katembo, however had not missed the lions and he was sure that it was a group of three brothers who earlier this season had infringed the area. Because they were so close we decided skip breakfast and we headed out to see if we could find the brothers!
... the clock was no more than 7am when these majestic cats appeared in the sunrise. We all sat dead silent and bubbly with excitement when one of them slowly walked past the car. We saw two of them and we could hint the third one a bit further in the grass.
As most of the time so far here in Botswana, we were all alone and no other cars insight!
There was a lot lion talk this morning and imagine our surprise when we just a few hours later found the battered hero - the previously dominant male in the area. He had no injuries so he had probably made the right choice to escape before it was fight. Even though he was much bigger than the brothers, it would not be easy to cope with 3 young powerful intruders.
After a really exciting morning we head back to camp for lunch and a little rest before the afternoon's adventure.
The afternoon was almost the opposite of the morning focused on predators, now we had more focus on herbivores and especially zebras. In Botswana during this time their is are also a migration going on, though not as extensive as in the Serengeti and Mara, it is still thousands of zebras and wildebeests.
In the distance we also saw a group of Elands - the largest of all antelope. They were very shy and we got to sneak not to scare them and although it was far away, it was awesome to see the whole group running like a string towards the forest we they discovered us. This was my first Eland sighting so cool.
Back at camp the guys had prepared the campfire and put on a crazy show. We laughed so much about their snappy humor, this was quality - bush TV, haha! Wonderful people <3
