It would be cheaper to go to African Lion Safari and you would see a lot more animals in a shorter time, but it wouldn’t be the same. Just as the African Lion Safari is far better than a zoo, so Kruger is even better. Instead of animals waiting to be fed their next free meal and baboons waiting to destroy your windshield weatherstripping, i.e. the welfare animals, you see the entrepreneurial animals:
· A lioness who has hidden her three cubs from four prowling male lions
· A breeding pair of lions
· Two lionesses stalking a herd of cape buffalo
· Giraffes running away from an animal that was stalking them
· Rhinos waiting to be poached (over 300 so far this year in Kruger - The army has now been called in and poachers are being shot from helicopters).
· Elephants stripping and breaking trees, and knocking them over so they can eat the roots.
You definitely come to the realization that these are “life and death” situations.
You also realize that, although you are staying in idyllic circumstances, there is pain and hardship all around you. The blacks have only enjoyed freedom for about twenty years and the economic suffering is not nearly eradicated and a 60% unemployment rate is just one sign of that. When it costs less to have your clothes washed and ironed for you than the cost of the soap and coins for the machines, you know that the average income for even those who do have jobs is very low.
· A lioness who has hidden her three cubs from four prowling male lions
· A breeding pair of lions
· Two lionesses stalking a herd of cape buffalo
· Giraffes running away from an animal that was stalking them
· Rhinos waiting to be poached (over 300 so far this year in Kruger - The army has now been called in and poachers are being shot from helicopters).
· Elephants stripping and breaking trees, and knocking them over so they can eat the roots.
You definitely come to the realization that these are “life and death” situations.
You also realize that, although you are staying in idyllic circumstances, there is pain and hardship all around you. The blacks have only enjoyed freedom for about twenty years and the economic suffering is not nearly eradicated and a 60% unemployment rate is just one sign of that. When it costs less to have your clothes washed and ironed for you than the cost of the soap and coins for the machines, you know that the average income for even those who do have jobs is very low.
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