South Africa - Day 3 - Lions

Boy did I sleep, I didn't wake once (except for when I woke), which is a new record. It's nice here, even in the third bedroom, there is an ensure which is larger than my kitchen back home.

As the Audi had a flat tyre, PM made some calls to get that sorted which meant we had to change the order in which we did things as we didn't want to do a big journey with the space saver tyre on.

We headed out to breakfast at Mugg & Bean which was nice, I had a typical English breakfast except the sausage had a strange name like the guy who typed the menu had sneezed when he typed it but I was assured it was real. We had a chat for a while and took in the warm sun and gazed at the cloudless blue sky.

They're just like Bella really

After that we headed to the Lion Park, it's kinda like a park but there are lions there. I was surprised that I had top go to a lion park instead of just seeing them roaming the streets, but I guess it's the wrong season or something.

I've got to get me one of these.

We started by looking at the pens where they kept the lion cubs in, these things are so cute and they spend 18 hours a day sleeping and then get fed a massive steak each at night. Doesn't sound like a bad life to me. The cubs in the youngest pen were 3-6 months old and we were looking at them when they opened the gate to let us in. We were allowed to go over and stroke and pat them which was really cool and we didn't get eaten once. All these guys wanted to do was sleep and they'd piled up on one another to use each other as pillows.

These guys hurt!

After the cubs we go some animal food and fed the giraffes and ostriches. Pandaman was impressed that he'd found something that was taller than me. The ostriches were bastards, instead of eating out of your hand they'd peck your hand knocking the food to the ground and then eat it there. The damn things nearly had my finger off!

Tina Turner has really let herself go

It was then time for the main tour, we jumped in a caged truck and drove around the park itself to look at the lions. You could drive your own car around if you'd wanted to but we didn't think taking a convertible in was a good idea in case they were hungry.

It's like a movie is about to start.

These big lions were seriously impressive, they have lots of space and will hunt given the chance. Apparently not long ago two people saw them sleeping and thought they were drugged so got out of their car for a photo. Dead as fuck.

The guide was really good and we went around five parks in total seeing more lions, wild dogs and cheetahs. I ended up taking about 200 photos (don't worry, there isn't a slide show to accompany the blog).

Afterwards we headed home and attempted to get the tyre fixed only to find out that not only that it couldn't be fixed but another one was ruined too, dammit.

On the evening we got the laptops out and wound up the internet for long enough to be able to search for a restaurant. We initially struggled to find something local that did meat and would cater for vegetarians but eventually settled for this posh place that uses the word 'jus' a lot on their menu.

The food was really good, I mean really good, there wasn't a lot of it so we managed to fit in desserts which basically blew us away. Then, in case we weren't full enough they gave us some fancy sweets to finish us off. I hadn't looked at the prices so thought that this could hurt, back home this sort of meal would be £50-60 each, easily. I looked at the bill, did some conversion and it was £50, but for all three of us. I'm still liking these SA prices :)