While in South Africa, we had the opportunity to do two pretty fun things during our free time. We got to go on a safari and to the Lion Park. Since this was my second time in South Africa, it was also my second time visiting each of these places.
While we were on our safari...
we were about 20 minutes in and we hadn't seen any animals--besides deer (impala, spring buck...) and who really cares about deer on a safari! Anyways, one of the students on my team decided to pray that we would see giraffe and no lie, as soon as we turned the corner there were three young giraffe standing there.
RINO and BABY! It was so awesome. Then we prayed for elephants and we had the same thing happen with another truck, but we turned the corner and
saw a big group of elephants! We did the same thing wtih Hippos and we saw hippos. The one of them prayed for lions. I was thinking, yeah right...we will not see lions--they said there were only 2 prides living there, so the odds of seeing them is SLIM. Well right before we got to the place we have our barbeque, we saw 2 lionnesses! It was so awesome--seeing how God answered even those simple prayers. We also got to see zebra, a warthog and hyena!
About a week into the trip we went to a lion park where they have lots of lions and other animals that you can drive through their habitats.
There are also some wild cubs that you can touch/take pictures with. Well...I was posing for a picture and there was a lion right beside me and...
it BIT ME! I GOT BIT BY A LION! It hurt a little, but didn't really bleed, so that was good....but who can say they got bit by a lion cub in Africa?!?
While we were on our safari...
we were about 20 minutes in and we hadn't seen any animals--besides deer (impala, spring buck...) and who really cares about deer on a safari! Anyways, one of the students on my team decided to pray that we would see giraffe and no lie, as soon as we turned the corner there were three young giraffe standing there.
We thought it was cool and continued on the way. We saw a rino WAY off in the distance (basically it looked like a rock...) anyways, someone else said lets pray to see one up close--so someone did and we all agreed. We met a truck carrying another group and our drivers stopped to talk--the driver said there weren't any animals this way and we would be wasting our time to go there. Our driver went anyway and we turned the corner and there was a
RINO and BABY! It was so awesome. Then we prayed for elephants and we had the same thing happen with another truck, but we turned the corner and
saw a big group of elephants! We did the same thing wtih Hippos and we saw hippos. The one of them prayed for lions. I was thinking, yeah right...we will not see lions--they said there were only 2 prides living there, so the odds of seeing them is SLIM. Well right before we got to the place we have our barbeque, we saw 2 lionnesses! It was so awesome--seeing how God answered even those simple prayers. We also got to see zebra, a warthog and hyena!
About a week into the trip we went to a lion park where they have lots of lions and other animals that you can drive through their habitats.
Our Experienced Driver
There are also some wild cubs that you can touch/take pictures with. Well...I was posing for a picture and there was a lion right beside me and...
it BIT ME! I GOT BIT BY A LION! It hurt a little, but didn't really bleed, so that was good....but who can say they got bit by a lion cub in Africa?!?
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