Northwards along the Lebombo Mountains to Pafuri.

Post by **Mel** » Sun Mar 06, 2016 6:52 pm

Funny how the KNP slender mongoose differs from its KTP cousins who are more reddish-brownish.

Lovely landscape photos with the elephants

And that boon kid is way too cute.

Post by **Richprins** » Sun Mar 06, 2016 6:56 pm

Very good again, 100p!

Wonder what that road sign with the two arrows means?

And what is this new weir?

Ja, nice that freezer setup in Balule! Lovely camp indeed! And good to know the youngsters help with the tent pitching!

Post by **Alf** » Mon Mar 07, 2016 6:05 am

Campsite at balule looks amazing

Yeah it took them a while to repair that bridge

Post by **Flutterby** » Mon Mar 07, 2016 9:12 am

100ponder wrote:Yes Flutterby, you are most likely familiar with the name "slender mongoose". I directly translated the Afrikaans name "swartkwas muishond". It's close relative is of cause the "witkwas muishond".

Aha! $\O$

Post by **Lisbeth** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 4:33 pm

Nice pic of the spoonbills and I love the ellies crossing the river

Post by **100ponder** » Sat Apr 09, 2016 7:57 pm

A little later our trek followed the route that swung away from the Olifants and as we approached the area where there is a rocky ridge on the eastern side of the road an oncoming car stopped us to advise that they have just seen an elephant on top of the ridge.

A few hundred meters further and there he was !

A young bull foraging amongst the rocks right on top of the rocky ridge :-

After spending a while observing this elephant doing some mountaineering, we proceeded further up north and then there were two magnificent elephant bulls - one with quite a promise for the future :-

Our trek proceeded north and beyond Mopani we spotted this magnificent Mega Buffalo that was really fat complimenting his very wide horns :-

Just note how wide his horns are protruding on both sides of his body when seen from behind.
( Can we please keep remarks to how wide his horns on his head are ? )

Later we reached the Shingwedzi turn-off and at the Shingwedzi / S134 "T"-junction this very promising tusker and some askaries were foraging :-

And then a little closer to the Shingwedzi gate the prize !

Mandzemba ! ! :-

We have truly arrived in TUSKER LAND ! ! !

Post by **Toko** » Sat Apr 09, 2016 8:03 pm

Elephants are just amazing $O/\$ And they are fairly good at mountain climbing and doing well in rocky terrain.

Impressive bulls there

Post by **Lisbeth** » Sat Apr 09, 2016 8:21 pm

You met some very nice bulls, especially Mandzemba of course $O/\$ $O/\$

Post by **Mel** » Sat Apr 09, 2016 9:38 pm

Very impressive and good-looking guys you met there!

Post by **Richprins** » Sun Apr 10, 2016 8:48 am

Excellent buffalo there, with loose, low-hanging horns!

I agree it is a bull! $\O$

Nice welcome to tuskerland.

I like the mountaineering elephant!

Africa Wild

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Arriving in Shingwedzi - our base-camp for the North.

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