Further on down the coast, we went to Addo, and checked out the wild things at the Schotia Game Reserve. After driving around lots of windy dirt roads that our guide, Brandon, navigated with the ease of a migratory bird, we pulled up to the lion gate. As we rounded the corner, we saw HER. SHE was a big as the range rover. Her head was like four feet long. SHE gazed at us through tiny beady eyes. As the silence and the tension grew, Brandon, whispered, "Time to go, now," and we slowly slowly pulled away before SHE decided to charge us.
Other people we spotted: ostriches, warthogs, lots of different antelope, giraffes, hippos (really dangerous!)and five lions, including two cubs. The lions huge enclosure was LITTERED with antelope skeletons.
At dinner, the German tourists we were with warned us against going to Umtata or Durban, and against driving through the Eastern Cape altogether(they still called it the Afrikaans name, Transkei). Enormous holes in the roads, cattle and people wandering suddenly and dangerously, and across the road, and, we later surmised, too many Africans and Indians. SIGH. Brandon was kind of quiet, he's from the Durban they were trashing, and loves it and the Transkei country.
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