Visitors to Tembe Elephant Park can sign up for two jeep safari drives daily. All This in 3 HoursĪnyone who has ever done a safari knows that there can be periods of long waiting, often hours of just seeing the odd antelope. Related Reading: Whale Watching in St Lucia, South Africa Yes, I was THIS CLOSE to two-three day old baby elephants…in the wild!: Two three-day old elephant calves in Tembe. Incredible!Īnd then something even more incredible happened! I got within 10 meters of not one, but two baby elephants And get this: they were only three days old! As luck would have it I got to see the large herd crossing the road as they moved into the forest for the night. I lost track of how many there were, but there were over easily over 20. What could be more incredible than observing lions, seeing a lioness hunt and being stalked by a lioness? Getting Up Close & Personal With Tembes Elephant Herds
I was annoyed and wanted to stay with the lions. They had spotted something else and were moving up. Sometime later, our jeep moved on, our guide whispering something into his radio to another guide. Related Reading: Whale Watching in St Lucia, South Africa Having said that, there’s no way I would have been getting out of the jeep to take a bathroom break! There was nothing from stopping the lioness from attacking our safari jeep, yet she didn’t. One lady in the jeep behind us was so scared that she hid under her jacket on the floor. She stared us down and parked herself less than 5 meters away – never taking her eyes off of us.
#ISILO ELEPHANT FULL#
She then made her way back and moved onto a much easier target – the three safari jeeps full of slow-moving un-camouflaged tourists. I couldn’t decide whether I wanted her hunt to succeed or not. Related Reading: Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Park: Game or Self-Drive? Lioness hunting an antelope hiding in the grass (it’s the brown thing just left of center). Then I slowly saw it, an antelope almost totally camouflaged in the tall grass. It’s incredible how interesting lions can be, even when they’re doing absolutely nothing! Fortunately, one of the lionesses decided that we deserved a little action and starting cleaning the other lioness:Īpparently this worked up her attitude as she got up and started to stalk…nothing.
The male was off on his own a bit, while the two lionesses appeared bored and uninterested as our safari jeep pulled up. Related Reading: Curious Onlookers: The Samango Monkeys of iSimangaliso Wetland Park Tembe is home to the Big 5 and the highly endangered wild dogs (which I didn’t see since they were hanging out in the opposite end of the 300 square meter park). (Don’t worry, we’ll get back to the elephants). Tembe is home to some of them, including Isilo, the largest elephant tusker in southern Africa! But there’s more to Tembe than elephants! In the early 1900s, the great tuskers were commonly found throughout the African continent, but now less than 40 remain in all of Africa because they’ve been hunted for their huge ivory tusks. Tembe Elephant: Home to The Largest Elephants in Africa I mean it beat out all my other adventures including diving with sharks – without a cage! That is some pretty stiff competition. Tembe Elephant Park is one of the top travel adventures I have ever done! It is home to South Africa’s largest elephants, the tuskers.Ĭonsidering the amazing places I have been – this speaks volumes for Tembe Elephant Park.
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