I was finally able to sleep through the night, but then it seemed like more effort to get up at 5:45am for the morning game drive.
Day 3 was similar to The previous day - a morning game drive from 6.30-10:00am, an evening game drive from 4:30-7:00pm and in between watch the game from the main lounge.
For the morning game drive we were joined by the pilots, Zak and Roman, (we had started hanging out together at the lodge), and a new guest, Tamden, who arrived the previous night.
The guide said that a lion had been through the lodge grounds overnight and had let out a big roar at 5am. We tried to track it but no luck. We saw a lot of zebra, buffalo, waterbucks and hartebeests, and towards the end saw a giraffe.
Marissa jumped in the pool after brunch, along with Zak and Tamden. It's built into a
natural rock basin beside the main lounge. The waterbucks will sometimes drink from the pool (I guess because they're last in the queue for the watering hole) and don't mind people lounging on the other side.
It was hotter today - about 33C, but it was nice in the lounge with a breeze going through.
Had our high tea and then went for the evening game drive. Saw another group of 20 elephants. Then our guide tracked a leopard! They are shy animals, so we took some pics from afar and then slowly approached. The leopard detected us when we were still 200m away and disappeared into the underbrush. Oh well.
The staff had a special dinner as it was our last night, with tables set up on the rocks under the stars. We even saw a couple of shooting stars!
We stayed up and had a few beers after dinner, making it to bed around 1am.
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