Today we got up fairly early to a 7:30 breakfast to catch our ride to Mkhaya Game Reserve for endangered animals at 8:45. Sifiso was our awesome driver who guaranteed we would have an excellent time. I managed to catch the fourth cohort in its natural habitat today, starting in the van:
We met our guide, Sichulo (or Stew, in English, he said) who kindly informed us we were only entitled to about 1 million requests to stop per rider in the land rover. We signed a waiver promising our firstborn children and headed into the bush!
It was quite a day, full of impala and other four-legged beasts, including wildebeests, and what Mkhaya is best known for - its rhinos. We saw quite a few white rhinos, a couple of them even up close:
Probably the best part of the day however was the rhino fart we originally mistook for a snore - or the opening of the sausage.
Some more sunset pictures on the way home:
After dinner at Malandela's, everyone helped organize the various giveaways and sort them into bags for each school. We discussed procedures and roles for the upcoming solar workshop and science demos at Nhlangano and then split up to review our presentations on research tomorrow at UNISWA.
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