Chasing Waterfalls and Wildlife in South Africa. EP 91

I'm heading to Sabi to catch up with some friends and to finally explore the Kruger National Park You can't do it on a bike we're just gonna have to rent a car or go on a tour I'm not sure yet when we get there we'll set it up The weather has gone bad for the last 60 days Welcome to Sabi How's my hair? It's cinnamon-ready Lovely, lovely And how's your hair? Mascara on or nothing This is my beautiful hosts here in Sabi I just arrived to this guys yesterday and we had a nice dinner and we hang out it was awesome so this is Thomas and Jackie They're running Sabi Valley Rider Academy, right? Go to right And I really hope to you guys to see you in Johannesburg Maybe I'll be joining them for their little training, hey? Yeah, that'd be nice And maybe for your brunch, right? Jackie Yeah Guys, thank you so much for having me until next time, hey? Yeah I really enjoyed my stay in my very comfortable bed You too You look after yourself And you too Time to go, bye Thank you Waterfalls And this is the first one My GoPro Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait Can you see me? And the fourth one Bye waterfalls Okay, the last one for today I promise Waterfalls number five Thomas and his friends have arranged me a complimentary room at the little Pilgrim's Boutique Hotel Look at that This is really, really, really nice So much luxury Wow Today was really Really a unique Morning It's 5 30 Around six o'clock because I slept in And this is Gero Gero is taking me for What do you call this tours? Morning game drive So we're going to Kruger National Park to look at the animals So normally you would put people here at the back? Yeah How many people? Well we've got nine at the back It's three times three seats And one person can sit next to me Like you're doing now Cool I've got my privacy today That's altogether ten tourists Size of the Kruger Park Average two million hectares Oh, wow Massive It's 20,000 square kilometers This is in the South African side Yeah The Eastern Frontier as well You're looking at another million hectares Wow That's another story Just to come back to Kruger itself, the original We've got about 2,000 kilometers network roading There's gravel and there's asphalt And if you had to drive on all those roads Would take you 17 days That's insane We're only here for about five hours How many lodges? How much accommodation is a lot? A lot Yeah, if you take out gates Got eight big gates that can enter from all over the park And you can only access the park in a vehicle You can't go on a bike, right? Because of the sound of the engine Sound and safety Safety The animals can attack you, right? Well, I don't think you want to be in a breeding herd of elephants in the middle Some lions that are pretty hungry So Gerald, why we call these animals that we're going to see here hopefully All of them today Hopefully Big five Okay, say over 150 years ago, 100 years ago The big game hunters in Africa I mean especially places like the old Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, South Africa with hunting Kenya The animals that the hunters used to go for And they coined the phrase of the big five most dangerous animals when hunting Right, so they can attack you, right? Well, basically what happens If you're going to shoot one of these animals and you don't take it down You miss or you wound them Then they're going to come and take you out So what are they? Elephant, lion, buffalo? Yeah Giraffe? No Leopard? Leopard And rhino Black rhino No hippo? No hippo, no Okay, now it shows you a stage it's not The big five because they're big I mean a leopard is Well, that's what I thought Yeah, well this is what most people do Yeah If you think about it, it's the five most dangerous animals when hunting Our first animals today Zebras Hi zebras So What are you looking for? It looks like he's lost something It's how they forage What's your name? Namasade What is it? My name is Kinga, very nice to meet you girls Nice to meet you You can say hi to my followers Hi