Amazing Journeys: Ulusaba Game Drive

Friday, January 22, 2010

Ulusaba Game Drive – African Big Fives

Game Drive at Ulusaba had a couple of safety rules to follow. One, keep quiet and still; two, stay with the group. In short, don’t leave the jeep and don’t do anything that will irritate the animals.

I was told that animals usually won’t attack anything that is bigger in size than them. So if we stay together – 11 people in a jeep – animals will view us as one single huge object (in terms of the animals’ eyesight) and will not attempt to attack. However if we leave the jeep and stand alone, we will become dangerous.

Before we depart for the first game drive, we were given a book by Ulusaba describing their property and the environment and the animals that we could expect to see. We all had a check list of the BIG Fives and see if we had the luck to see them all.

As we had game drives twice daily, different colleagues went on different routes and met different animals. Though game drive had no guarantee, every time we found something new. After all, when we cross checked our lists, we were all lucky enough to meet all the Big Fives, though on different days and different occasions.

As I said, my primitive camera on this trip didn’t produce good quality photos. I have therefore borrowed the Big Fives photos from Wiki. But I did meet them all.

African Big Fives
Lion, Leopard, Rhino, Elephant, Buffalo

Lion