After a nice cup of coffee in the restaurant, we departed for a big 5 game drive into Welgevonden, we always enter the reserve throw the South gate. While filling in the indemnity forms, we suddenly heard a very loud and impressive lion roar, we knew they hippowere close but looking at the facts that you can hear a lion roar in an 8 km radius you never know exactly how close they might be. Full of excitement we drove around low range pass and there they were, the whole southern pride consisting of one big male, 2 sub adult males, 2 females and 5 cubs lying in the road in front of us! It was like being in a movie on national geographic, the 5 cubs playing with each other in front of the car while you could see the sun rising in the background, Unbelievable!

After watching the southern pride for about 15 minutes we left the lions and headed off to the other side of the mountain. We encountering all kinds of antelopes like waterbuck, red hartebeests and a beautiful dark kudu bull with his elegant set of horns. As we approached one of the dams for a coffee break we encountered 2 beautiful hippos next to the road, we viewed them for a while and decided it is time for a nice breakfast.