South Africa: Kruger Park Day 1 March 2009

     From the porch of our rondavel (a round thatched guesthouse) in Kruger National Park (as big as Massachusetts) we watched grazing impalas and several troops of baboons who methodically tipped over the garbage cans.
     On our afternoon game drive, Elvis, our driver, spotted some waterbucks, a Kudu bull, cow and calf, 8 hippos popping their eyes above water, a wide variety of birds and 2 lactating lionesses surveying the countryside from a kopje (large stone outcropping).
     The biggest thrill for me was seeing a 2 1/2 ton white rhino smack in the center of a dirt road who just looked at us.
     Elvis pointed out a miwden (rhino dung heap) completely made of grasses.  A lot of rhinos = a crash.