Today we're in Johannesburg South Africa heading to Kruger National Park one of
the top game reserves in the world. This National Park is home to the big five
which includes the elephant the Buffalo the leopard the black rhino and the lion
we're on a quest to spot them all but first we're making a trek four and a
half hours to the park the journey is remote hilly and rocky in
fact they call these roads the 'African massage'.
we're in the Drakensberg mountains in South Africa making out beautiful by
nightfall we reach our Lodge ready to embark on our safari the next morning
bright and early at 4 a.m. it's 5 a.m. getting laid out
we're off to our safari
this is the map of Cukor National Park it's massive they say that it's the size
of Switzerland here we meet our safari guide who takes us on a full-day game
Drive she's been dubbed the 'cat lady' for her
uncanny ability to spot the elusive predator, the lion.
we got the fresh tracks from the cats the first animal we see is called a kudu a
species of antelope that is legally hunted to make a food called biltong
after one hour of scouring the park we spot the cats there are only 1,600 in
this park and after following their footprints end at their last sightings
we see them here hunting along the river female lions carry out 80 to 90 percent
of the hunting all from dusk till dawn here we see them in action while the
male lions watch over the territory next we spot the second of the big five the
elephant there are an estimated 13,000 elephants living in Cougar in here we
spot a family of elephants eating in the wild this is the mommy
the female video the most surreal part about being on a game drive is that
these animals which are wild ferocious and unpredictable appear almost team in
fact they ignore our car since it's not a threat to them
finally we spot the male lion which completely blends into his surroundings
as he watches over his territory
this is the information center and restaurant inside Cooper this is the
sightings board of all of the animals you can see so far today we saw so they
have this nice little restaurant here in the middle of the park literally in the
middle of nowhere where you can buy coffee drinks just got this chorizo bowl
from this awesome little store that they have within the National Park here's the
little convenience store there's all kinds of snacks in here souvenirs
this is a pile of meat and this right here is kudu we saw this earlier on our
game Drive they have a bathrooms here check out our ride open your Jeep baby
car same exact Jeep as your husband park after lunch we hit the road again this
time in search of the Buffalo Rhino and the elusive leopard spotting a leopard
is like spotting a needle in a haystack we follow some of the reports from other
Park Rangers to see if we can find it
finally we saw an animal emerge with a spotted coat it was the leopard when I
saw the leopard all I wanted to say was WOW but it's important to remain as
quiet as possible so not to scare off the animals this is something you don't
see every day there's a very rational part
Mike was behind you too bitch around we are in South Africa
which African animal would you most want a spot in the wild comment below
and the males have countless
hey guys we're in a cougar National Park this is a national park about five hours
east of Johannesburg and you can see some of the big five animals here so far
we've seen elephants lions we spotted a leopard but only for one second and we
also saw giraffes now we're looking for rhinos and so here's the facilities here
they have beautiful places to stop off and picnic common animals that we've
seen so far are Apollo's there's hundreds of thousands of them
what was your favorite animal we've seen so far well I like the Lions but the
hyenas were kinda unique
the perfume champions
baby
he's climbing - she's carrying a baby in her belly
look at this
this is really special here
she just gave birth to the baby ans she's licking it.
This just happened. Along the road we witness something very special this is a newborn
baby Impala something that took NatGeo five years to capture on film according
to our guide
Guide: Can you see there's two?
There's two baby impalas, one is still not up and one is trying to get up.
Guide: This is AWESOME. You know what you're looking at?
How often does this happen?
Guide: Once a year.
Guide: It took National Geographic five years to film this.
here we watch as the baby Impala takes her first steps
Two females they are nursing the little baby there's another little baby
more isn't she's looking the other baby
there's a pool in Kruger National Park
this is like a grocery store and you can pick up all the meats here they have a
barbecue called a breed and you can have one in the park they have Hello Kitty
in Kruger National Park so it's 37 degrees Celsius today it's really hot
for here about in the mid 90s and coming up to noon we saw a lot and our game
drive has come to an end but not without seeing the black rhino we travel to a
nature preserve in order to spot this endangered animal where are you
guys we stopped off at this Rhino park we weren't able to see any in the wild
but they're here at this park and they have their horns cut off they've been
victims of poaching and they're filming and not geo exclusive to to talk about
it but they'd sawed off the horn to protect them so they don't get killed so
this talks about the rhino poaching they're at risk of extinction and their
horn is used in Asian medicine it's believed to cure cancer to learn more
about how we can protect some of the animals seen in this video visit the
link in the description below we hope that you enjoyed this journey into
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