Luxury Camping in South Africa *Safari Tent Experience*

Luxury Camping in South Africa Safari Tent Experience

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I went on a Safari and stayed at Muluwa Lodge in White River, South Africa.
This place is awesome and I really enjoyed my stay here!
You have to come see it for yourself!
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My First Safari Experience:
If you’ve never been on safari - and I don’t mean one of those man-made zoo experiences but I mean a real-life, in the bush, under the African sun type of safari, then you don’t know what you’re missing!
I grew up in South Africa but I didn't actually go on many safari's when I was younger. Although I did watch Lion King so, I had an idea of what it was like. Laugh all you want but I think a lot of us have a certain preconceived idea of what Africa is like and what the savannah is like. It’s that “hakuna matata” world Disney painted for me and those iconic pictures of the one tree in the distance with giraffes in silhouette.
In real life, in some ways I was almost disappointed that the African savannah wasn’t like Lion King but in other ways the safari experience exhilarated me in ways unexpected.
For me, it’s the landscape that really surprised me. Since my experience is limited to South Africa and the area around Kruger, my experience may be different from other parts of Africa but I remember my first reaction was, it’s way less lush and way more dead-looking than I thought. “What happened to all those trees?” I remember saying out loud.
Now this definitely changed as the weeks went on and I was able to see more of the landscape but with all the heat and dry nature of the climate, it’s really more desert than jungle. They call it a bush for a reason and it’s that brown tall stringy grass type of bush that is what dominates the area.
That being said, I was also amazed at how diverse the landscape is as well. While it is predominantly dry and barren, you can be driving along one road in Kruger National Park and see it go from larger oak-type trees with greener grass (typically near rivers), to barren open ground, to tall dry grasslands, to rocky outcrops. It changes on a dime it feels like and is what makes things so interesting out there especially when you’re tracking animals.
A safari as a whole, is an experience of unpredictability and constant surprise and wonder.
Sure it’s still somewhat of a manufactured experience with human roads, camps, electric fences, and walkie-talkies but it’s almost difficult to comprehend that you’re in the natural habitat of these animals and you’re just a guest taking a small peek into their world. Some animals will rustle away as you pass by in your car or in the safari truck but others won’t give a damn and just continue munching on whatever they were munching on or go back to staring into the distance with more purpose than our untrained eye can perceive.
For me, It’s really the luck aspect of it all that truly gives the biggest thrill of all. Think of it as going on this great big hunt. You could come up with nothing or you could come up with the biggest catch of them all. And while you’re not really capturing anything for trophies, your mind is making its own list of catches that you make with your eyes. Sometimes there are specific things you’re hoping to see or the best is when you are totally shocked and surprised to see something you never even thought of.
And as time goes on in Africa, that list of what you want to see grows wilder and more on the rarer side. You’ll quickly grow tired of impala and you’ll start getting hungry to see lions making a kill or a leopard hanging from a tree.
That is the safari life. And now I understand why people come back year after year because it is totally addictive.