We joined a guided jeep tour of the game preserve adjacent to the lodge. Michael has been a game guide here for over 30 years and we enjoyed his narration along our trip.
There are only 6,500 black rhinos in Africa and about 600 in Zimbabwe. The park rangers cut the horns to make them less desirable to poachers who kill them for their valued horns. Like finger nails, the horns grow back over several years.
A herd of water buffalo crossed our path.
Michael explained that the giraffe’s coat darkens with age so this male was about 20 years old.
Zebras have very poor eye sight so they smartly stay with a herd of impalas at night. The zebra will be alerted to predators by the fleeing of the impalas.
The land cruiser had a grill protector that transformed to a bar top for serving drinks.
Michael stopped for us to enjoy the sunset. Glad our driver is sticking to coke. Gotta get me one of those grill guard/bar tops for my truck!
We toasted the African sunset 🙂
