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Night Safari Drives
Though we had taken night drives in Kakuli, it seemed the ones we had
here were more productive of successful animal sightings. The nights in
both places were much cooler, even chilly sometimes, but often more
comfortable than the hot daytime ones.
One particularly wonderful day started with an evening drive with the
sun slowly setting on us. We drove through a beautiful valley bathed in
golden light with more and more stars peeking out as the sky darkened.
Zebras, Kudus, bushbuck, waterbuck, and elephants were all aglow in
the gorgeous light. Again we were disappointed to have to return to the
lodge for supper though we were all hungry.
On that same day, we went out again in the total darkness and were
rewarded with so many wonderful sightings. We had all wanted to see
African porcupines and we saw three of the prickly but much more
beautiful creatures than ours in North America. Their spines are
pronouncedly black and white and glow and shine in the spotlight. We
